Poverty is higher in most African countries than elsewhere in the developing world, and highest in the ruralareas. Accelerating growth in agriculture will therefore be critical to sustain growth and reduce poverty,but policy makers are unsure which sub-sector will yield the highest return for a...

A dichotomous-choice contingent-valuation survey was conducted in the State of Mississippi (USA) to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for three restoration options being considered for the state’s barrier islands. Random-effects probit models were estimated, and parametric and non-parametric...

Applying modelling techniques for getting acquainted with customer behaviour, predicting the customers’ next step is neccessary to keep in competition, by decreasing the capital requirement (Basel II - IRB) or making the portfolio more profitable. According to the easily implementable...

The current ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research) guidelines forimpact assessment of agricultural development projects see impact assessment as being usefulfor both accountability to stakeholders and as a learning tool to find out what works, whatdoesn’t work and...

The globalization of markets, increased specialization in customers services, shorter lead times,are among the main factors influencing the change in firms organization. The firms disintegrationis growing, leading to an increased demand for collaborative management along the supplychain. The...

This paper aims at comparing the innovative potential of leading food processing companies inemerging and developed economies. We asked ourselves how the clearly differing economicand social conditions of two areas that are only comparable in terms of their number ofinhabitants (about 16 to 18...

The U.S. nursery industry is highly complex, and affected on their demand side by the construction industry and on their factor supply side by the market for low-skill labor, which in turn is influenced by gyrating construction activity as well as southern-border immigration. We examine an...

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A unique discrete choice experiment (DCE) is used to estimate the relative importance ofquality attributes to Australian beef consumers. In the DCE, consumers choose theirpreferred beef steaks from options varying in a large number of intrinsic (marbling and fattrim) and extrinsic/credence...

This paper contributes towards the development of an approach that would generate welfare measures that accommodate non-expected utility risk preferences. Combining the merits of elicitation approaches used in field experiments with contingent valuation, we embed an experimental design that...