The objective of this report is to take stock of the activities, motivations, impacts and challenges faced by the farms in Washington as they relate to agritourism and direct marketing. We characterize the agritourism entrepreneurship and direct marketing activities in different counties of the...

The objective of this report is to take stock of the activities, motivations, impacts and challenges faced by the farms in Washington as they relate to agritourism and direct marketing. We characterize the agritourism entrepreneurship and direct marketing activities in different counties of the...

How and Where Government Spends Money: Public Budgeting Reform and Citizen Participation -- Institutional Reform and Innovation in the Public Financing System -- ays to Promote Public Budgeting Reform -- A Constitutional Perspective on the Financial Transfer Payment System in China -- A...

We propose a Generalized Quadratic Utility (GQU) model for an incomplete demand system with binding non-negativity constraints which is flexible in income and price effects. The model accounts for zero consumption using choke prices identified by Kuhn-Tucker conditions. The GQU demand system can...

Background: This article takes a look at the technical efficiency of 53 A-share listed companies of Chinese military industrial enterprises in the '10 Major Military-industrial Groups' based on the random Frontier B95 model and the panel data of listed companies from 2010 to 2015. Objectives:...

A simple experiment is used to examine the effect of grocery store nutrition labels on the sales of microwave popcorn in the East Bay area of California. Using an incomplete demand system we estimate the impact of the nutrition labels on sales of healthy (products that merit a nutrition label)...

Nutrition labels can potentially benefit consumers by increasing product knowledge and reducing search costs. However, the global increase in obesity rates leads one to question the effectiveness of current nutrition information formats. Alternative formats for providing nutrition information...