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SISTEMAS DE COMERCIALIZAÇÃO DAS EMPRESAS ATACADISTAS DE FLV NA REGIÃO METROPOLITANA DE RECIFE DO ESTADO DE PERNAMBUCO: CASO DAS EMPRESAS A E B.
Mendes, Luciene Nascimento; Silva, Jearbes Alexandre da; … - 2008
O mercado nacional de FLV (frutas, legumes e verduras) vem crescendo significativamente nos últimos anos. Contudo, devido à grande perecibilidade destes produtos, a qualidade dos mesmos está condicionada a processos de padronização, seleção, classificação, embalagem e transporte...
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Pigs in Cyberspace: A Natural Experiment Testing Differences between Online and Offline Club-Pig Auctions
Roe, Brian E.; Wyszynski, Timothy E. - 2011
We find sale prices and net revenues received by sellers in the Midwestern club pig market are higher at traditional face-to-face auctions than at comparable Internet auctions. The comparison overcomes adverse selection issues that commonly plague such analyses by using data from sellers that...
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Establishing the Presence of a Risk Premium in the Cocoa Futures Market: An Econometric Analysis
Armah, Stephen E. - 2008
Previous attempts at identifying and estimating a time-varying risk premium in the cocoa futures market yielded conflicting results. Using a longer series that includes the most recent cash and futures data, the existence of a time-varying risk premium in the cocoa futures market is...
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The Role of Retail Services in Food Market Equilibrium
Chidmi, Benaissa; Lopez, Rigoberto A. - 2007
studieshave not modeled the retailing stage of the marketing channel to determine their relative contributionto channel price …
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2008
competitiveness of marketing and production contracts depending on the availability of alternative marketing options. A propensity …
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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 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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