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Factors affecting crop insurance purchases in China: the Inner Mongolia region
Boyd, Milton; Pai, Jeffrey; Zhang, Qiao; Wang, H. Holly; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 441-450
Purpose – China frequently suffers from weather-related natural disasters and weather risk is recognized as a source of … wide-spread systemic risk throughout large swaths of China. During these periods farmers' crops are at risk and for a … believe that this is the first willingness-to-pay study of weather insurance uptake in China. The authors used a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583921
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Testing for adverse selection of crop insurance in northern China
Hou, Linging; Hoag, Dana L.K.; Mu, Yueying - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 462-475
) in Miyun county, in northern China, by testing the existence of adverse selection. Design/methodology/approach – The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583922
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Price transmission market power and industry technology: a note
Weldegebriel, Habtu T.; Wang, Xiuqing; Rayner, Anthony J. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 281-299
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model of price transmission from the farm to the retail sector, allowing not only for an interaction between oligopoly power, oligopsony power and non-constant returns to scale in industry technology, but also allowing for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583923
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Factors influencing Shaanxi and Gansu farmers' willingness to purchase weather insurance
Kong, Rong; Turvey, Calum G.; He, Guangwen; Ma, Jiujie; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 423-440
Purpose – China frequently suffers from weather-related natural disasters and weather risk is recognized as a source of … wide-spread systemic risk throughout large swaths of China. During these periods farmers' crops are at risk and for a … believe that this is the first willingness-to-pay study of weather insurance uptake in China. The authors used a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583924
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Evidence of rational addiction to carbonated soft drinks?
Liu, Xiaoou; Lopez, Rigoberto - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 300-317
drink consumption in the USA, China is experiencing a similar consumption increase in carbonated soft drinks as in the USA …, in the examined period. Therefore, the lessons from the USA are also valuable for the public policy makers in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583925
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Why do farmers quit from grain production in China? Causes and implications
Zhan, Jin-Tao; Wu, Yan-Rui; Zhang, Xiao-Hui; Zhou, Zhang-Yue - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 342-362
Purpose – The number of farms engaged in grain production in China has been declining in recent years. Limited efforts … have been devoted to examine why producers quit from grain production and how such exits affect China's grain output. Such … larger scale of grain production and earning higher income from grain are the major contributors to China's grain production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583926
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Reforms, WTO, arbitrage efficiency and integration between the China-US soybean markets
Han, Shengfei; He, Pei - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 3, pp. 318-341
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach to market analysis, and test how the China-US soybean … counter-intuitively worsened after China's elimination of quota in 1999, and accession to WTO in 2001. One other interesting … impacts and effectiveness of government policies on China's international soybean markets, the remaining bottlenecks, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583927
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Evaluating agricultural catastrophic risk
Xu, Lei; Zhang, Qiao; Zhang, Xi - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 451-461
-production in the northeast region of China; in particular, the drought catastrophic risk is severe within a 100-year scenario and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583928
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The Renaissance of Outdoor Advertising: From Harlem to Hong Kong
Lopez-Pumarejo, Tomas A.; Bassell, Myles - In: American Journal of Business 24 (2009) 2, pp. 33-39
This paper explores the reasons for the increase in “outdoor advertising” (OA) expenditures worldwide and the impact of billboards on our cities. Since 2006, a portable device that measures billboard exposure became widely available, thus setting up a rating system like that of other forms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583958
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El impacto de China en América Latina: Comercio e inversiones.
Peters, Enrique Dussel; Hiratuka, Célio; Castilho, Marta; … - Red Mercosur
El exponencial crecimiento de China en los últimos treinta años genera preocupaciones e interrogantes en el ámbito … Bittencourt, analiza en qué medida la emergencia de China afecta el comercio exterior y la inversión extranjera que reciben los … en una amenaza. Los resultados confirman varias preocupaciones usuales en torno al impacto de la emergencia de China …
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