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China’s Agricultural Modernisation Program: an assessment of its sustainability and impacts in the case of the high-value beef chain

Waldron, Scott A.; Brown, Colin G.; Longworth, John W. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching …

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Impacts of Retailers’ Pricing Strategies for Produce Commodities on Farmer Welfare

Li, Chenguang; Sexton, Richard J. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

The typical model of retail pricing for produce products assumes retailers set price equal to the farm price plus a certain markup. However, observations from scanner data indicate a large degree of price dispersion in the grocery retailing market. In addition to markup pricing behavior, we...

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OWN AND CROSS PASS-TROUGH IN A STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK

Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Bozic, Marin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

The article offers measures of own and cross cost pass-through in a structural framework. Unlike the traditional reduced-form analysis used in the previous literature, our approach is applicable in situations where firm marginal cost data are unobserved. The empirical value of the model is...

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Trade opportunities from the EU-ACP EPAs: Prospects for the flower sub-sector in Uganda

Guloba, Madina; Ogwal, Francis - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2011

With the signing of the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in 2009, the Government of Uganda as a member of the ACP, should endeavour to re-strategize itself to benefit from the opportunities such trading blocks create through increased trade. While Uganda ratified the United Nations...

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Table of Contents and Front Matter

In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 2

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Optimal Grain Marketing Revisited: A German and Polish Perspective

Loy, Jens-Peter; Pieniadz, Agata - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Increasing grain price volatility over the last year has revived the discussion on optimal marketing strategies …. Various models of optimal grain marketing have been proposed and simulated in the literature. In this study an overview on … Germany and Poland. Results indicate that gains from optimal marketing are rather small and uncertain in the real world …

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Market Structure and Coherence of International Cooperation: The Case of the Dairy Sector in Malawi

Revoredo-Giha, Cesar - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

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ON ENDOGENEITY OF RETAIL MARKET POWER IN AN EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS: A CONTROL FUNCTION APPROACH

Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Stiegert, Kyle W.; Bozic, Marin - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

The endogeneity of retail market power arises in the retail pricing equation due to the correlation between margins and unobserved cost components. Nevertheless, it has long been ignored in the equilibrium analysis of retail behavior. We address the issue via a control function approach in a new...

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The challenges of the Private Sector Driven Veterinary Extension Services Delivery in the Dairy Sector in Uganda

Mbowa, Swaibu; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Lwanga, Musa - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

The privatization of veterinary extension services delivery in Uganda opened more opportunities for the private sector in the provision of extension services and supply of essential inputs demanded by a growing and more dynamic dairy sector. Consequently, the number of agents profoundly...

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In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 43 (2011) 02

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