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THE ABROGATION OF SET ASIDE AND THE INCREASE OF CEREAL PRICES: CAN THEY REVERT THE DECLINE OF CEREAL PRODUCTION GENERATED BY DECOUPLING?
Severini, Simone; Valle, Stefano - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
The decoupling of direct payments, caused by the introduction of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS), has generated an incentive for farmers to decrease the production of cereals, oilseeds and protein crops (COP) and (because of the reform of sugar CMO) sugar beet. In some cases, this has also...
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Measuring the Success of Agricultural Transition: An Application to Russia
Liefert, William M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
The paper presents a model of the agro-food system in a transition economy, which shows how the move from a planned to a market economy affects the production and consumption of goods and economic welfare. The model is then used to identify two complementary approaches for measuring the success...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806137
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Agriculture Development Lowers the Risk of Cognitive Disability: Evidence from China's Rural Household Responsibility System Reform
Niu, Mengqi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010915955
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Measuring the Success of Agricultural Transition: An Application to Russia
Liefert, William M. - 2007
The paper presents a model of the agro-food system in a transition economy, which shows howthe move from a planned to a market economy affects the production and consumption of goodsand economic welfare. The model is then used to identify two complementary approaches formeasuring the success of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445073
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Will Consumers Pay a Premium for “Raised Carbon Friendly” Beef? Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Experiment
Li, Xiaogu; Jensen, Kimberly L.; Clark, Christopher D.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
Cattle production contributes about 2.2% of US greenhouse gas emissions. The adoption of prescribed grazing (PG) could reduce these emissions. Grass-fed beef products command price premiums; whether beef produced with PG programs would do likewise is not known. This research estimates consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068577
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Consumer Response to Media Information: The Case of Grapefruit-Drug Interaction
Kim, Hyeyoung; House, Lisa A.; Salois, Matthew - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
There is an extensive literature examining the role of media information and coverage on influencing consumer perception and behavior, particularly with respect to food choices. Consumer response to media information on food-drug interactions has yet to be examined. The goal of this research is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068631
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The Capitalization of Area Payment into Land Rental Prices: Micro-evidence from Italy
Guastella, G.; Moro, D.; Sckokai, P.; Veneziani, M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper analyses the extent to which agricultural subsidies are capitalised into land rental price. By using Italian data at the farm level the analysis proposed in this paper innovates with respect to existing studies in different ways. Thanks to the long time span available in the FADN...
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Environmental melodrama, coal, and the politics of sustainable energy in The Last Mountain
Schwarze, Steve; Peeples, Jennifer; Schneider, Jen; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 2, pp. 108-122
mining in West Virginia known as mountaintop removal (MTR). The Last Mountain was the first of more than 40 MTR films to be … film's use of environmental melodrama to define the problems related to MTR and create identification between victims of … MTR and viewers. However, the latter portion of the film attempts to scale up from the melodramatic depiction of MTR to …
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What is the mobile termination regime for the asymmetric firms with a calling club effect?
Geoffron, Patrice; Wang, Haobo - In: International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2008) 1, pp. 58-79
The aim of our paper is to determine the efficiency of the asymmetric regulation of the Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) in a market where the firms are differentiated in size and with commercial offers that include calling club effects. Major regulatory issues are related to these analyses,...
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Medium-Term Review 2008-2015, No. 11
FitzGerald, John; Bergin, Adele; Conefrey, Thomas; … - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI)
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