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This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...
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A dichotomous-choice contingent-valuation survey was conducted in the State of Mississippi (USA) to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for three restoration options being considered for the state’s barrier islands. Random-effects probit models were estimated, and parametric and non-parametric...
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The globalization of markets, increased specialization in customers services, shorter lead times,are among the main …
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This paper aims at comparing the innovative potential of leading food processing companies inemerging and developed economies. We asked ourselves how the clearly differing economicand social conditions of two areas that are only comparable in terms of their number ofinhabitants (about 16 to 18...
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This study explores the domain of sustainability from the agribusiness perspective by establishing levels or stages of ….S. agribusiness managers, results indicate that strong management pressures have a positive and highly significant relation-ship with …
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We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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The behavior of agricultural commodity markets can arguably result in markedly asymmetricprice cycles, that is, downward cycles of substantially different length and breadth thanupward cycles. This study assesses whether asymmetric-cycle models can enhance the understandingof the dynamics and...
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important risk factor of thesupply response function of the Greek pork market. Furthermore, the empirical findings showthat feed …
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may result in higher farm income, compared to markup pricing. Furthermore, taking farmers’ risk attitude into account …, higher income risk under alternative pricing strategies may offset the higher expected income, resulting in lower expected … utility to risk-averse farmers. Our study is the first to evaluate the welfare implications for producers of the diversified …
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