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Bank Performance, Efficiency and Ownership in Transitition Countries
Bonin, John; Wachtel, Paul; Hasan, Iftekhar - 2007
Using data from 1996 to 2000, we investigate the effects of ownership, especially by a strategic foreign owner, on bank efficiency for eleven transition countries in an unbalanced panel consisting of 225 banks and 856 observations. Applying stochastic frontier estimation procedures, we compute...
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Small-scale irrigation in the Sahel : adoption trends, profitability, and challenges
Faye, Amy; Braun, Joachim von - 2024
This paper analyzes the current uptake of small-scale irrigation (SSI1), its profitability, and the constraints to its … non-farmer-led SSI (NFSSI) and analyzes labour profitability of SSI. Inverse probability weighing techniques are used to …, FSSI is more common than NFSSI in Niger and Burkina Faso and less common in Mali and Senegal. Profitability analysis at the …
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Profitability of the Australian Beef Industry : A Break-Even Analysis
Arjunan, Kannapiran - 2017
Profitability of the specialist beef production in the Australian Beef Industry is undertaken using a break-even model … profitability. Although the findings provide a view of financial profitability of the specialist beef production in general, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955065
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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited
Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413090
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Forecasting profitability
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782148
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078029
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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited
Gehrke, Esther - 2014
This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045833
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Influence of Scale Size on the Profitability of Cow’s Milk Production
Skarżyńska, Aldona - 2020
The issue of profitability of the agricultural production is often discussed within the framework of the problems of … agricultural economics. The study showed a diversification in the profitability of the milk production depending on the cow herd … measure of the milk production’s economic efficiency was the profitability index (revenues-to-economic costs ratio), the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092368
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Poland's agriculture : serious competitor or Europe's poorhouse? ; survey results on farm performance in selected Polish voivodships and a comparison with German farms
Petrick, Martin - 2001
profitability of farms is a consequence of pronounced structural deficiencies due to a quite unfavourable workforce-land ratio on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755913