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This article proposes using an expanded form of the Johnson S family as a way to approximate nonnormal distributions in regression models. The distribution is one of the few that allows modeling heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. The technique is evaluated with Monte Carlo simulation and...
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agriculture, and analyses the incidence between NAFTA partners before and after the implementation of free trade, and compared to …
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for the relative price of the food crop in particular and slash and burn agriculture in general …
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also argues that proper compensation to existing supported farmers is a necessary and separate condition for sensible … reliable benefits of a more multifunctional agriculture …
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The model presented in this paper distinguishes an industrial and an agricultural sector within a developing economy, which interact predominantly through the goods market. Investment determines saving through the Keynesian mechanism of effective demand. Environmental degradation results from...
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Digital technologies are rapidly changing agricultural practices today. Farmers still struggle to adopt the … skills. Specific evidence for all types of arable crops are needed to sufficiently encourage farmers to take up the practices …
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agriculture, systematised according to the Agricultural Policy Measures (APM) classification scheme, a uniform classification of … agricultural budgetary support enabling comparison of the scope and structure of budgetary support for agriculture between WB … countries/territories and the EU. The report concludes that in WB countries/territories, agriculture is an important sector for …
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Analysing stylised scenarios with economic modelling tools reveals complex relations, incentives and trade-offs of the different policy instruments, in particular regarding the environmental dimension. Marginal areas of the EU are most vulnerable to drastic policy changes.
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the potential effects of European decoupled payments on farmers' production decisions, prior to a sensitivity analysis of … coupling channels such as capitalisation in land value, farmers' risk behaviour, credit accessibility, uncertainty about future …
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Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to … analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by risk-averse farmers who have access to financial insurance, and study the … increasing environmental risk leads private farmers to increase their level of on-farm agro-biodiversity, the level of agro …
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