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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The language of social entrepreneurs [PDF]

, 2007
This paper questions the application of the entrepreneurship discourse to social entrepreneurship in the UK and looks at how people 'doing' social enterprise appropriate or re-write the discourse to articulate their own realities.
Parkinson, Caroline, Howorth, C A, Parkinson, C R, Howorth, Carole, Carole Howorth, Caroline Parkinson   +5 more
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
wiley   +1 more source

On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
wiley   +1 more source

Business or Professional? A Context-Based Approach on Discourse and Communication [PDF]

Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara: Transactions on Modern Languages
This article explores the conceptual boundaries and intersections between professional discourse and business discourse, arguing that while business discourse is a subset of professional discourse, technological and social changes increasingly blur the ...
Diana ZELTER , Iuliu RAȚIU, Timea TOCALACHIS   +2 more
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana, Linda Arata, Margherita Muzzillo, Paolo Sckokai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of professional practice: using electronic discourse analysis networks (EDANs) to examine embedded business emails

, 2014
Emails have become a central genre in business communication, reflecting both how people communicate and how they go about their professional practices.
Gimenez, J.
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FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EUPHEMISMS IN BUSINESS DISCOURSE (BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF PRINCIPLED NEGOTIATIONS)

Filolog
In recent years, the business community has acknowledged that negotiations should be built upon mutual respect and collaboration with a focus on interests rather than positions.
Lusine Harutyunyan, Ruzanna Baghramyan
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THE TACTIC OF ASSESSMENT IN ECONOMIC DISCOURSE (THE CONCEPT OF SINGLE MARKET)

Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2019
The aim of the article is to describe the trends ongoing in modern economic discourse. Economic discourse is considered to be a part of business discourse texts united by the topic of commerce and economic relations.
A. V. Radyuk
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