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Timber price dynamics following a natural catastrophe
Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Thomas P. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 82 (2000) 1, pp. 145-160
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Timber price dynamics after a natural disaster : Hurricane Hugo revisited
Kinnucan, Henry W. - In: Journal of forest economics : JFE 25 (2016), pp. 115-129
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The effects of hurricane Katrina on price pass-through for Gulf Coast gasoline
Blair, Benjamin F.; Rezek, Jon P. - In: Economics letters 98 (2008) 3, pp. 229-234
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The Safety-Net Use of Non Timber Forest Products
Delacote, Philippe - 2009
Incompleteness of insurance markets is a crucial weakness of developing countries. In this context, the poor households of rural regions often exploit common property resources, such as forests, as insurance in case of economics stress. The aim of this paper is to derive the implications of this...
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Livestock as an imperfect buffer stock in poorly integrated markets
Lange, Simon; Reimers, Malte - 2015
Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African Semi-arid Tropics (WASAT) are often substantial yet there is little evidence for precautionary saving in the form of livestock. This paper re-visits farm households' ability to smooth consumption ex post via savings in the form of livestock....
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Livestock as an imperfect buffer stock in poorly integrated markets
Lange, Simon; Reimers, Malte - 2014
Livestock holdings in rural areas of the West African Semi-arid Tropics (WASAT) are often substantial yet there is little evidence for precautionary saving in the form of livestock out of transitory income. The present paper re-visits farm households' ability to smooth consumption ex post via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405649
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Price and Volatility Transmissions between Natural Gas, Fertilizer, and Corn Markets
Etienne, Xiaoli - 2015
We investigate the price and volatility transmission between natural gas, fertilizer (ammonia), and corn markets, an … vice versa. This result is robust to a specification using crude oil price as an alternative to natural gas price to … linkage between natural gas prices and those of fertilizer and corn during that period, while linkages in price level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012863
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Price Transmission and Food Scares in the U.S. Beef Sector
Livanis, Grigorios; Moss, Charles - 2012
price spreads in the U.S. beef market to a Food Safety Index derived from Lexis-Nexis. Specifically, we estimate a vector … error correction model to examine the long- and short-run effect of news on price spreads. Our results indicate that …
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The influence of prices on market participation decisions of indigenous poultry farmers in four districts of Eastern Province, Kenya
Mailu, Stephen; Wachira, Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Over 70% of the domesticated birds in Kenya are indigenous chicken (IC) providing meat and table eggs. They are frequently raised through the free range, backyard production system. Small flock sizes are characteristic of this production system and often, sales are mainly at the farmgate....
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Impact of Rising World Rice Prices on Poverty and Inequality in Burkina Faso
TRAORE, Fousseini; BADOLO, Félix - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2012
countries, but the magnitude is not the same in all countries. This paper assesses the impact of rising rice price on poverty …
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