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trade liberalization. …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment strategies. The paper follows …
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To sell their surpluses of maize, the main staple in Benin, farmers may choose among three modes of transaction: they may sell under a contract with itinerant traders, or they may sell without a contract at the farmgate or on distant markets. It has been postulated that farmers may choose a...
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As a result of a large number of food scandals, societal interest in transparency in the food sector has grown … address. Hence, the creation of transparency in the production process has been the focus of the legislation. In this context … foods. This is intended as a response to the general call for more transparency or a "gläserne Produktion ". It has not been …
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The publication of food inspection results is one of the innovative measures introduced that use both material and non-material motivation of food businesses to increase regulatory compliance. Disclosure is not a new instrument and has been implemented in, for instance, Denmark, Los Angeles or...
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One of the core requests in assuring competitiveness and sustainability in the food value chain is transparency. The … solutions that could solve the transparency problem at consumers’ end. This is where the Future Internet provides opportunities … that allowed to meet the challenge and to appropriately address the transparency problem. This paper introduces into the …
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Key issues in the effective delivery of EU-funded rural development programmes include simplification, transparency and …
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We present a research plan to assess the value of transparency by comparing pork supply chains in The Netherlands and … quality control institutions. We define chain configuration in terms of structure and transparency. In order to be able to …
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Transparency has gained much relevance in food chains. This paper summarizes the determinants of transparency and … points out that transparency in the sense of effective information exchange needs trust as a mediator in order to become a … the reciprocal and dynamic mechanisms of trust on transparency and vice versa. It is argued that both constructs should be …
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The classical doctrine of the Lender of Last Resort, elaborated by Thornton (1802) and Bagehot (1873), asserts that the Central Bank should lend to "illiquid but solvent" banks under certain conditions. Several authors have argued that this view is now obsolete: when interbank markets are...
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