This paper models inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties adoption as joint decisions. Controlling for … fertilizer and improved maize varieties were inter-dependent. Other factors found to influence the adoption of the two …

fertilizer demand observed in Argentina inthe 1990-2019 period. Understanding the factors affecting fertilizer use is important … understanding of the economics of fertilizer use, as fertilizers can both contributeto sustainable production (via increased …, in particular, related togroundwater contamination and energy (in the form of fertilizer) used in the agricultural sector …

fertilizers play an important part. Nitrogen fertilizer application has increased crop production by about 3-4 times, but at the …

the consequences for developing countries' processes of structural change. The results suggest a clear role for fertilizer … agriculture and increases of non-agricultural value added per capita. The identification strategy for the effect of fertilizer … includes a novel instrumental variable that exploits variation in global fertilizer price, interacted with the inverse distance …

medicines, but also because the institutional details of pharmaceutical markets complicate the economic analysis of merger … effects. Standard anti-trust analysis of mergers, in pharmaceuticals as in other industries, focuses on the proposed merger …

group of large and increasingly powerful firms.”This Essay examines the inadequacies of the traditional merger analysis by … determine whether – as the Clayton Act provides – the merger threatens to “substantially lessen competition.” After examining …-related advantages, we suggest a presumption that a merger between two large firms substantially lessens competition. Mergers involving …

, and decreasing production and R\&D efficiencies. In this study, we investigate merger impacts on innovation using a panel … correlated with firms' innovation. Our findings also indicate that merger effect on innovation is heterogeneous across industries …