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Kozar, Laszlo - 2010

assistshort and long-term marketing decisions. The economical basis of the model is thecombinative use of two market institutions …

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CARICOM’s COMPETITIVENESS WITHIN THE US IMPORT MARKET FOR SPECIALTY CROPS: A SHIFT-SHARE ANALYSIS

Lowe, Garfield G.; Davis, Carlton George - 2007

This paper is based on the premise that if CARICOM’s agricultural sector in general, and more specifically the export sub-sector, is to thrive in the rapidly changing trade environment there has to be a continuous systematic assessment of market opportunities and competitiveness status. Such...

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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JAMAICA’S GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY

Evans, Edward A.; Nalampang, Sikavas; Spreen, Thomas H. - 2007

illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting fresh grapefruits to the EU. This marketing opportunity comes about as … the demand for the fruit in the EU could create a marketing opportunities for countries such as Jamaica. The paper … discusses the state of the Florida citrus industry with particular reference to grapefruits and the marketing prospects for …

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Production Contracts and the Spot Market Price of Hogs

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

The increasing use of production contracts in the hog sector has reduced the number of spot market transactions, raised concerns about price manipulation and helped to spur legislation requiring price reporting by packers. Using data from the 2002 and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture, this study...

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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...

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Confirmatory Bias under Food-Borne Risk: A Lab Experiment

Cao, Ying; Just, David R.; Wansink, Brian - 2010

An experiment was conducted to investigate the interaction between consumers’ past eating behaviors, risk perceptions and future information processing procedure. In the study, participants were required to choose whether or not to eat chicken that was potentially be tainted with Avian...

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Testing Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Vertical Supply Chain in De-regulated RiceMarkets in Bangladesh

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; … - 2010

marketing chain to correct the market inefficiency, if needed. The vertical price leadership at the wholesale level to theretail … in the marketing literature is inferred but not empirically verified. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to fill up this …

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Information and Firms’ Search Behavior

Aker, Jenny; Tack, Jesse B. - 2011

marketing behavior in Niger. We construct a novel theoretical model of sequential search, in which traders engage in optimal …

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Smallholder marketed surplus and input use under transactions costs: maize supply and fertilizer demand in Kenya

Arega, D.A.; Manyong, Victor M.; Omanya, G.; Mignouna, H.D. - 2008

significant negative effects on market participation, cost-mitigating innovations—such as group marketing—are also emerging to …

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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure

Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008

Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...

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