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the family ARCH as analysis tool with relationship to the behavior of the return of the cocoa, of the fatcow, of the … volatility. The markets are asymmetric for the return of these commodities. For the future market of the fat ox and of the cocoa …
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cocoa beans; (ii) the impacts of cocoa export taxes on domestic welfare. In particular, it attempts to develop a two … on Indonesian exports of cocoa beans would indeed divert some of the crop to domestic use. However, this leads to … significant losses to cocoa bean producers and does little to develop a processing sector. Second, interdependence between major …
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Market access to export cocoa beans in many cocoa producing countries has improved greatly due to trade liberalization … in the cocoa sector. This has been accomplished through a variety of policy instruments, primarily structural adjustment … programs (SAPs). In reducing or eliminating the role of state-owned and operated marketing and exporting boards, cocoa …
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The discovery of sugarcane smut in one Queensland cane region, in June2006, triggered a clear-cut biosecurity response aimed at containment anderadication. Farm financial analyses helped to set the incentives offered tocanegrowers to gain their cooperation in the eradication effort financed...
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This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...
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Against the background of increasing concerns regarding the energy supply security as well asenvironmental concern the interest for renewable energy sources has increased in recent years. Thebiofuel sector, backed by public policies, experienced a strong increase in and outside Europe....
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In this paper, we make an attempt to rationalize the strategic behavior of major peanut exporting and importing countries in the framework of imperfectly competitive markets with the focus on the global and inter-American peanut trade. This study is motivated by the fact that liberalizing...
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This study examines the ability of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) to price discriminate in bread wheat exports. This study models wheat as a vertically differentiated intermediate good and modifies the model of vertical differentiation by Mussa and Rosen to the realities of wheat import demand....
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