The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly homogeneous assets traded on these markets. We investigate whether this...

Computational simulation models are widely used in the field of agricultural economics for a variety of tasks, particularly for evidence-based policy analysis. Despite the substantial and continuing growth of computing power and speed, the growing complexity together with the implicit nature of...

The present volume is the collection of the conference papers presented on the 11th International Symposium Agricultural economics and Rural Development - Realities and Perspectives for Romania, organized by the Research Institute for Agrarian Economy and Rural Development during 19 of November,...

We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using both fixed-effects and generalized method-of-moments estimators, affiliate wage levels are estimated to respond...

The present volume is the collection of the conference papers presented on The 10th International Symposium Agricultural economics and Rural Development - Realities and Perspectives for Romania, organized by The Research Institute for Agrarian Economy and Rural Development during 14 of November,...

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...

1. --Cultivating a Regional Agroecology --2. --Capitalism and Sustainable Farming --3. --Beet Biology and the Nature of Labor --4. --Piedmont Sugar and the State of Science --5. -- TheEconomics of Mechanization and Watershed Engineering --6. --Building the Petrochemical Paradigm --7....

Part 1. Gordon Rausser: Scholar, Leader and Entrepreneur -- Chapter 1. On the Essence of Leadership: Lessons from Gordon Rausser -- Chapter 2. Scholar, Entrepreneur and Editorial Innovator -- Chapter 3. Gordon Rausser: Impacts on the World Food System -- Chapter 4. Gordon Rausser and the...

The agricultural sector both needs to reduce its impacts and adapt its food production system to cope with environmental constraints and climate changes. This special issue includes three selected papers presented at the 53rd annual Conference of the Italian Society of Agricultural Economics...

Soil acidity is crucial for crop yields. Acidic soils decrease the availability of important nutrients to plants, causing lower yields. This applies to both naturally occurring nutrients and fertilizer. A well-known remedy is to provide soils with alkaline materials, like ground limestone. This...

After nearly two centuries of lagging behind the industrial countries, growth in many developing countries has surged since the early 1990s. This outperformance has major implications for almost all areas of agricultural economics and, if continued, will likely do so into the future. This paper...

1. Introduction to the handbook on the human impact of agriculture / Harvey S. James, Jr. -- Part I. Impacts of agricultural institutions and organizations -- 2. How farm consolidation affects farmers and farmworkers / James M. MacDonald -- 3. The real game of chicken: The tournament, broiler...

Introduction /Petra Moser --The roots of agricultural innovation : patent evidence of knowledge spillovers /Matthew Clancy, Paul Hesiey, Yongjie Ji, GianCarlo Moschini --Comment /Alberto Galasso --Quantifying heterogeneous returns to genetic selection : evidence from Wisconsin dairies /Jared...

Front cover; Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets; Copyright page; Introduction to the Series; Contents of the Handbook; Contents of Volume 3; Part 1: Introduction; Overview; Part 2: Human Resources and Technology Mastery; Chapter...