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Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - 2013

We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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Forecasting Profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2013

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Are small farms really more productive than large farms?

Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2021

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...

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The Impact of Intellectual Property Protection on MNEs’ Decisions to Invest in Developing Countries : Empirical Evidence from New Swiss Firm-Level FDI Panel Data

Hold, Arno - 2015

This article reviews the impact of intellectual property (IP) protection on foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in developing countries. Applying different panel data techniques to a newly-created comprehensive FDI/IP dataset of 31 Swiss MNEs investing into 53...

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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2005

This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...

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Farm Productivity and Market Structure. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2006

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External Validity in a Stochastic World

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2016

in agriculture, small and medium enterprises and human capital differ significantly from year to year. We also show how …

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The Effects of Relative or Absolute Risk Aversion on Production Efficiency in Agriculture : Evidence from the 'Bread Basket' of Nigeria

Obrimah, Oghenovo A. - 2017

I estimate stochastic frontier models for agricultural productivity using factors that proxy for absolute risk aversion … (e.g. loan amounts) and factors that proxy for relative risk aversion (loan pricing or interest rates). Empirical … findings show absolute risk aversion ceases to matter for agricultural productivity or the determination of the productivity …

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Credit access and borrowing costs in Poland's agricultural credit market : a hedonic pricing approach

Petrick, Martin; Latruffe, Laure - 2003

The paper empirically investigates credit access and borrowing costs in Poland's rural financial market. We conduct an econometric analysis based on cross-sectional survey data including formal loans taken in the period 1997-1999. A hedonic regression of the effective interest rate, comprising...

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