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A micro-analytic approach based on an integration of elements from Agency and Transactions-cost theories, was followed to develop a theoretical framework for characterizing vertical coordination decisions at the firm level. Vertical coordination modes were defined as all possible arrangements...
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food and export agriculture sectors allows a distinction between tradeable and nontradeable agricultural commodities and an … to examine how micro-level markets in the agricultural sector respond to macro-level changes such as exchange rate and … agricultural households and urban rich at the expense of rural non-farm and urban poor households. Under the package of combined …
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This study investigates the problem of forecasting volatilities used in option pricing models for live cattle and live hog futures. The forecast problem is cast in the framework of Bayesian inference. Six types of individual forecast models are used--GARCH models, ARIMA models, systems of...
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This study identifies the changes that have occurred in the world cocoa market, explains these changes and deduces implications for development policy. Supply of cocoa to the world market has increased and the world price of cocoa is decreasing. Cocoa is an important export commodity for...
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Specialists and donor groups alike claim that most public irrigation systems in Asia operate well below their potential; yet there is a very little quantitative information on the extent to which these systems are achieving performance objectives. This study develops a methodology to evaluate...
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entire Spanish agricultural sector. Spain's recent entry into the European Community which was accompanied by falling … the agricultural sector included obtaining development assistance for poor or declining regions and the fostering of a …
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Given the size and variability of U.S. federal outlays on agricultural support programs, alternative means of … contingent values of agricultural programs have often been based on the direct application of existing option valuation models …. There are several "exotic" option-like features embedded in the U.S. agricultural support programs, and thus the existing …
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economic development of Indonesia in the past twenty five years. Several forms of agricultural policies have been designed and … distribution among farm groups--which is an important agricultural policy issue. The results of the multilevel programming analysis … than their present share, and a significant improvement on the agricultural sector's overall performance. …
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This is a comprehensive study of the growth and impact of agricultural futures market traders. The growth of financial … questions twelve commodity markets are chosen to capture the majority of agricultural trading on organized futures markets and … encompass the agricultural commodity index trading activity. The data used are from the proprietary large trader database of the …
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Changes in loan quality affect loan pricing, credit policy, and the capital structure of the Farm Credit System (FCS). Improving the assessment and anticipation of changes in loan quality is a continual challenge. This research shows that loan quality assessment through aggregate credit scoring...
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