This study focuses on the pattern between investment in chemical inputs such as fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides and technical efficiency of farm households in Laguna, Philippines. Using a one‐stage maximum likelihood estimation procedure, the stochastic production frontier model was...

Global climate anomalies affect world economies and primary commodity prices. One of the more pronounced climate anomalies is El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). In this study I examine the relationship between ENSO and world commodity prices using monthly time series of the sea-surface...

This paper develops a model of demand estimation in which consumers learn about their true preferences through consumption experiences. We develop a theoretical model of Bayesian updating, perform comparative statics over the model, and show how the theoretical model can be consistently...

Assessing the value of ecosystem services in a particular area helps provide information about the economic benefits these services provide to the community. In many situations, to avoid the full cost of primary data collection, value estimates may be applied from secondary sources in a process...

Greater understanding of irrigator water trade decision-making processes provides insight into the efficient reallocation of water resources between competing uses. Water trade decisions are often modelled as single processes, although results in this paper suggest that sequential decision...

We present a new Bayesian econometric speci…cation for a hypothetical Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) incorporating respondent ranking information about attribute impor- tance. Our results indicate that a DCE debrie…ng question that asks respondents to rank the importance of attributes helps...

We investigate the market in bespoke essays from commercial providers which students buy to submit at their University. We conduct choice experiments at 3 universities to investigate students’willingness to enter the market. Half of the sample reveal a willingness to buy. We identify...

Drawing on the case of Dharmapuri District, South India, the article aims to investigate the potential and the constraints by which agricultural biotechnologies can be employed to serve the purpose of agricultural and rural development. The analysis follows two main routes: on one side it...

Los signos de calidad como denominaciones de origen y otras indicaciones geograficas son elementos de diferenciacion que estan suscitando, desde hace unos anos, gran interes y desarrollo en muchos paises. Ademas de ser figuras de proteccion oficial, tienen un significado comercial similiar al de...

La configuracion actual de los sistemas agroalimentarios y la evolucion de las caracteristicas de la demanda de alimentos han motivado en los ultimos anos la proliferacion, en diferentes paises, de un conjunto de estrategias que representan una busqueda de alternativas a las formas mas...