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Effects of economic transition policies on Yugoslavia's agricultural sector: A quantitative approach
Miljkovic, Dragan - 1996
The optimal level of state ownership of the agricultural land in Yugoslavia is determined under policy scenarios … private sector, wages, and overall performance (output) of the agricultural sector. Bilevel programming is used as the … privatization program in the short and intermediate run. Excessive privatization may further disturb the agricultural sector …
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Substitution of food away from home for the wife's housework time
Shotick, Joyce Ann Down - 1996
reservation wage, thus, providing no incentive to participate in the labor market. …
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Gender, occupation, and time allocation for market work, commuting, and housework
Yi, Yun-Ae - 1994
The objectives of this study were to investigate the determinants of employed women's allocation of time for housework, market work, and commuting; to compare the time allocation by women and men in relation to their hourly wages; and also to compare the time allocation of women in...
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Dependency and development in the garment industry: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Heidebrecht, Sarah E. - 2011
Master of Science
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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THAILAND'S RICE TRADE
MEENAPHANT, SORRAYUTH; MEENAPHANT, SORRAYUTH - 1981
This study is an analysis of Thailand's rice export sector with reference to three major issues: government trade policy, trade performance, and the structure of trade preferences. In analyzing the rice trade policy, particularly the rice premium, both theoretical and empirical analyses were...
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The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
Brown, Zachary Steven - 2011
In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is reminiscent of a previous worldwide campaign to eradicate malaria in the 1960s, a...
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Incorporating options and forecast information in producer hog marketing strategies: Conceptual and measurement issues
Adam, Brian Dale - 1990
Both options and better information about prices have been proposed to increase the attractiveness of livestock hedging strategies. This study examines the value of incorporating both into hedging strategies for live hogs. A two-period simulation model in which a hog producer chooses a hedging...
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Rules for water allocation in a small watershed: A game theoretic approach
Saleth, R. Maria - 1989
Exchanges of either long term rights (property right transfer) or spot rights (rights rental) to water may result in third party effects that place practical limits on the geographic scope of a water market. The result will be a market with few eligible participants. A "thin" market suffers from...
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Financial and managerial implications of mergers and acquisitions in food industries in the 1980s
Declerck, Francis - 1992
Food firms can improve their profits by focusing on one or a few specialized activities because of efficiency gains and/or market power benefits. This study documents that profits increase with increasing concentration for firms in food industries whose top-4-concentration ratio is greater than 38%.
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Imperfect competition and exchange rate pass-through in the international rice market
Yumkella, Kandeh Kolleh - 1992
As a result of the unique segmentation of the international rice market, and the dominance of US and Thailand within certain market segments, a model of monopolistic price discrimination is developed in this study to examine export price adjustment in response to exchange rate fluctuations. The...
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