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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005
This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610940
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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2006
This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063309
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Seed market liberalization, hybrid maize adoption, and impacts on smallholder farmers in Tanzania
Kathage, Jonas; Qaim, Matin; Kassie, Menale; Shiferaw, … - 2012
Since the early 1990s, liberalization of the seed market in Tanzania has attracted several foreign companies that now market maize hybrids in the country. In this article, we analyze the impacts of proprietary hybrids on maize yields, production, and household living standards. We build on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235145
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Institutional insights into contract theories : a comparative approach to the French and German dairy industries under liberalization
Derville, Marie; Fink-Keßler, Andrea - In: European journal of comparative economics 16 (2019) 1, pp. 81-104
To analyse farmer market access following European dairy-market liberalization, this article provides a novel, institutional and spatially explicit approach to contract theory. Contractual reciprocal agreements, bargaining power, the regulatory framework, the regional market structure, quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259762
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes - 2004
Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444089
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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013
The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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Deregulating Innovation Capital : The Effects of the JOBS Act on Biotech Startups
Lewis, Craig M. - 2020
IPOs since 2012. Reduced compliance costs encourage innovation capital formation as biotech IPO volume increases 200% and …
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Banking Deregulation and Innovation
Chava, Sudheer - 2015
We document empirical support for a key micro-level channel --- innovation by young, private firms --- through which … market power of banks, decreased the level and risk of innovation by young, private firms. In contrast, interstate banking … deregulation, which decreased the local market power of banks, increased the level and risk of innovation by young, private firms …
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Do Product Market Reforms Raise Innovation? Evidence from Micro-data Across 12 Countries
Litina, Anastasia - 2020
How does policy affect innovation and the digital economy? We revisit how standard product market regulation affects … innovation and develop a novel framework for thinking about digital regulation. Using new establishment-level micro-data across … innovation activities. These declines are a result of product market regulation on the incentives to invest in in-house R&D and …
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Economic liberalization and food security in sub-Saharan Africa
Sahn, David E. - In: Food security and nutrition : the global challenge, (pp. 131-154). 1999
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