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The Possible Role of Futures Market and the Public Warehousing in Trade-financing Activity

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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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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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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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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Garment Industry and Economic Empowerment: A case study of Swaziland

Panin, Anthony; Mthombo, Thabile T. - 2008

This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...

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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya

Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - 2008

on marketing, business, production and subsector analysis). The study uses cross-sectional data from a survey of women …

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The Effect of Prior Gains and Losses on Current Risk-Taking Using Quantile Regression

Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - 2009

This paper investigates the dynamics of sequential decision-making in agricultural futures andoptions markets using a quantile regression framework. Analysis of trading records of 12 traderssuggests that there is great heterogeneity in individual trading behavior. Traders responddifferently to...

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Does Futures Price Volatility Differ Across Delivery Horizon?

Karali, Berna; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Thurman, Walter N. - 2009

We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different delivery horizons via the smoothed Bayesian estimatorof Karali, Dorfman, and Thurman (2010). We show that the futures price volatilitiesin these markets are affected by the...

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