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How Does the Adoption of e‐Commerce Impact the Selling Prices of Agricultural Products? Empirical Evidence From Apple Farmers in China

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sale of products through e‐commerce is emerging in rural China, and it cuts out intermediaries and allows farmers direct access to the market. To understand how adopting e‐commerce impacts the selling prices of agricultural products and who benefits more from adopting e‐commerce, we interviewed 480 apple farmers from the three ...
Min Liu   +3 more
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Spatial Price Integration and Spillover Linkages Between Regional Grain Markets in Nigeria

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to characterize the spatial set‐up of Nigeria's grain market integration from January 2002 to December 2013 across 19 Nigerian regions. Using market price data of maize, sorghum, and millet, two hypotheses are tested: (i) the law of one price across market pairs, and (ii) the leader market hypothesis in any network of market ...
Yacouba Kassouri, N' Zué Felix Fofana
wiley   +1 more source

Gains From Trade in an Asymmetric Cournot World With Trade Costs

open access: yesReview of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We compare free trade with autarky in a partial equilibrium model with asymmetric Cournot competition and linear demand and costs. While the existing literature can only guarantee under strong symmetry without trade costs that trade increases world output, consumer surplus, and total welfare, we show that weaker conditions such as partial ...
Rabah Amir, Jim Y. Jin, Michael Troege
wiley   +1 more source

Global Natural Gas Market Integration: The Role of LNG Trade and Infrastructure Constraints

open access: yesThe World Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the integration of global natural gas markets across North America, Europe, and Asia from 2016 to 2022. The analysis focuses on the impact of the United States emerging as a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter and significant supply disruptions, including the sharp reduction in Russian pipeline supplies to Europe. We
Markos Farag   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retirement, Social Security Deferral, and Life Annuity Demand

open access: yesFINANCIAL PLANNING REVIEW, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to our understanding of wealth decumulation behavior by examining trends in retirement, Social Security claiming, and annuitization decisions. Prior research suggests that while these decisions have high stakes for retirement security, people may not make them optimally. I use data from the Health and Retirement Study to
Sita Nataraj Slavov
wiley   +1 more source

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