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Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Vigh, Melinda - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
variables. This class contains a variety of models that are useful for modeling intertemporal household decisions under risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256814
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Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand : First Estimates from the Longitudinal Business Database
Apatov, Eyal - 2015
link financial and agricultural data from the New Zealand Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) to estimate production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015468
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Construction and application of the Rural Development Index to analysis of rural regions
Michalek, Jerzy; Zarnekow, Nana - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
The main purpose of this research was to construct a multi-dimensional (composite) index measuring the overall level of rural development and quality of life in individual rural regions of a given EU country. In the Rural Development Index (RDI) the rural development domains are represented by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010628226
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Construction and application of the Rural Development Index to analysis of rural regions
Michalek, Jerzy; Zarnekow, Nana - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
The main purpose of this research was to construct a multi-dimensional (composite) index measuring the overall level of rural development and quality of life in individual rural regions of a given EU country. In the Rural Development Index (RDI) the rural development domains are represented by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169828
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Counterfactual impact evaluation of EU rural development programmes - Propensity Score Matching methodology applied to selected EU Member States. Volume 2: A regional approach
Michalek, Jerzy - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012
objective of this study is to analyze the impact of EU RD programmes on rural regions. Aggregated effects of a given RD programme at regional levels are estimated using the Rural Development Index (RDI) – a proxy describing the overall quality of life in individual rural areas. The impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169866
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Micro-credit, risk coping and the incidence of rural-to-urban migration
Ahsan, Quamrul - 2005
The focus of this paper is on the rural poor of south Asia and their struggle to cope with the seasonal risk of … credit may affect the more traditional/time honoured means of risk coping, such as seasonal migration. Given that credit, i …-financed activity, a joint adoption of both activities creates opportunities for diversification of risk in the family incomes portfolio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295955
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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops
Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - 2009
Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299491
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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops
Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-9, pp. 1-33
Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299956
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Remittances, informal loans, and assets as risk-coping mechanisms: Evidence from agricultural households in rural Philippines
Pajaron, Marjorie C. - 2014
use remittances, informal loans, or assets as ex post risk-coping mechanisms. Since these households have limited access … increase. Borrowers and lenders may be experiencing similar shocks, which would reduce the effectiveness of local risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335580
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Supplier dynamics in horticultural export chains: Evidence from Ecuador. Revised Version
Romero, Cristina; Wollni, Meike - 2015
In this paper we study the dynamics of smallholder participation in export value chains focusing on the example of small-scale broccoli producers in the highlands of Ecuador. We analyze the extent of participation over an 11-year time period using correlated random effects and diff-GMM models...
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