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State and Power in Rural Africa: Evidence from Madagascar
Bellemare, Marc F.; Moser, Christine M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
Despite the presumed importance of a strong state in the development process, there has been very little empirical work assessing the state’s ability to exercise power in isolated areas and understanding the means through which the state exerts that power. This paper begins to fill this gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881177
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Financial markets, money, and the real world
Davidson, Paul - 2002
economic models -- 4. Investment : liquid real capital versus liquid assets -- 5. Why liquidity preference? -- 6. Financial … markets, liquidity and fast exits -- 7. Planned investment, planned savings, liquidity and economic growth -- 8. Complicating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851209
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Financial development, integration and stability : evidence from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Liebscher, Klaus (contributor) - 2006
integration from central, commercial and investment banks, governments, international organizations, universities and research … Schumpeter to be rediscovered? / Peter Mooslechner -- The impact of the euro on investment : sectoral evidence / Tomas Dvorak … / Sophie Claeys and Christa Hainz -- Ownership structures and investment in transition economies / Dennis C. Mueller and Evgeni …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851237
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Investment, capital market imperfections, and uncertainty : theory and empirical results
Lensink, Robert; Bo, Hong; Sterken, Elmer - 2001
This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment …, the authors discuss both traditional investment models with uncertainty and the more modern option based models. They … present an overview of empirical results of the modelling of investment under uncertainty. In these examples, the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473824
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A Cost Approach to Economic Analysis under Production Uncertainty
Chavas, Jean-Paul - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006
-contingent approach to production uncertainty. First, the paper develops a methodology to specify and estimate cost-minimizing input … also provides evidence that the cost of facing adverse weather conditions has declined in US agriculture over the last few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804863
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Switchgrass Lignin Regulation and Ethanol Production Cost
Gouzaye, Amadou; Epplin, Francis; Saha, Malay; Serba, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014
The optimal switchgrass genotype from among 250 alternatives for producing biomass for use in an enzymatic hydrolysis conversion process to produce ethanol was determined. The consequences of the selected genotype, relative to the most common commercially available variety, on ethanol production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011068512
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Switchgrass Biomass Yield and Fertilizer Requirements by Month of Harvest: Economic Consequences of Nutrient Translocation and Remobilization
Gouzaye, Amadou; Epplin, Francis M.; Brorsen, B. Wade; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
yield, nutrient concentration in biomass, fertilizer requirements, and expected production cost by month of harvest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010880960
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Farmer’s Income Shifting Option in Post-harvest Forward Contracting
Mallory, Mindy L.; Zhao, Wenjiao; Irwin, Scott H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We estimate the cost of post-harvest forward contracting corn and soybeans for January and March delivery from 1980 … through 2009. For both corn and soybeans we saw a downward trend in the cost of forward contract for January delivery and we … conclude that the cost of forward contracting for January delivery is partly compensation for the counterparty risk borne by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881173
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The Effect of Land Management Changes and Nutrient Runoff Capture on Water Quality and Farm and Watershed Economics
Khakbazan, M.; Hamilton, C.; Yarotski, J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
investment. The Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices (WEBs) project was initiated in 2004 under Agriculture … entrapment, and recreational activities have also been determined. For land conversion to forage BMP, the cost saving of … cattle containment area was not enough to justify its instalment cost, although nutrients, sediment and pathogens export (off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916052
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Assessing the Efficiency of Alternative Best Management Practices to Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution in the Broiler Production Region of Louisiana
Gottshall, Bryan; Paudel, Krishna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
We demonstrate the impact of choosing suites of best management practices (BMPs) to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment load in Chenier Creek water segment located within the Baouf watershed, Louisiana. Simulation outputs generated from MAPSHED are used to generate regression coefficients...
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