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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
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Efficient Use of Behavioral Tools to Reduce Electricity Demand of Domestic Consumers
Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2016 Purpose: The present study investigated the main literature on the subject of methods and policies for reducing the electricity demand of domestic consumers, in order to identify the place of behavioral tools.
Elbaz Shimon, Zaiţ Adriana
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The Behavioral Economics of Smoking [PDF]
, 1998 Evidence that economic principles may be employed to predict the rates at which cigarettes are consumed is presented from several laboratory experiments. In these experiments, cigarette-deprived smokers were required to make a effortful response to earn cigarette puffs.
Bickel, Warren K., Madden, Gregory J.
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin +3 more
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The impact of financial risks on economic growth in EU-15 [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Economics, Vol. 24 (2017), No. 1, 2020 This paper examines the impact of financial risks on economic growth in the first 15 Member States of the European Union, considering 1995-2014 period and aims to lay down a new explanatory model of economic growth, based mainly on the behavioral reactivity of the financial disruptions mentioned above.
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Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Integrating trading and logistics is an important challenge in commodity trading. Trading and logistics are strategic decisions and are integral to most commodities including grain shipping by rail, in addition to other modes (barges, ocean shipping). There are substantial risks, such as the ordering and placement of rail cars.
William W. Wilson, Jesse Klebe
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Futures markets are critical to price discovery and often dominate spot markets. We analyze the linkages between daily corn futures and spot prices in the United States using dynamic time warping. This nonparametric pattern recognition technique has several advantages over traditional time series methods.
Dragan Miljkovic +2 more
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Economia Comportamental: uma introdução para analistas do comportamento
Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 2012 Behavioral economics is a line of scientific investigation that cuts across two fields, Psychology and Economics. Despite receiving contributions from both these sciences, many researches from behavioral economists in recent decades have been dictated by
Ana Carolina Trousdell Franceschini +1 more
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Toward a cognitive science of markets: economic agents as sense-makers
Economics: Journal Articles, 2019 Behavioral economics aspires to replace the agents of neoclassical economics with living, breathing human beings. Here, the author argues that behavioral economics, like its neoclassical counterpart, often neglects the role of active sense-making that ...
Johnson Samuel G.B.
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The future of health economics: The potential of behavioral and experimental economics
Nordic Journal of Health Economics, 2015 Health care systems around the globe are facing great challenges. The demand for health care is increasing due to the continuous development of new medical technologies, changing demographics, increasing income levels, and greater expectations from ...
Fredrik Hansen +3 more
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