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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

CEO social capital and implied cost of capital: Based on the empirical evidence of Chinese family businesses. [PDF]

PLoS One
Qi Y, Zou Y, Shi F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unionism, Price-Cost Margins, and the Return to Capital [PDF]

This paper examines available industry data on two profitability measures, the price-cost margin and the ratio of quasi-rents to capital, for the purpose of determining the effect of unionism on profits.
Richard B. Freeman
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing the cost of capital to finance the energy transition in developing countries. [PDF]

Nat Energy
Calcaterra M, Aleluia Reis L, Fragkos P, Briera T, de Boer HS, Egli F, Emmerling J, Iyer G, Mittal S, Polzin FHJ, Sanders MWJL, Schmidt TS, Serebriakova A, Steffen B, van de Ven DJ, van Vuuren DP, Waidelich P, Tavoni M.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Cost of Equity Capital in Australia: What Can We Learn from International Equity Returns? [PDF]

This paper reviews some evidence on the cost of equity capital in Australia and overseas. Two conventional approaches yield conflicting results. A third approach, based on the International Asset Pricing Model, starts from the premise that Australian ...
Anthony J. Richards
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Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels, Cord‐Friedrich von Hobe, Miryam Sarah Merk, Thomas Kneib, Oliver Musshoff   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
wiley   +1 more source

Convertibility, currency controls and the cost of capital in Western Europe, 1950-1999 [PDF]

For most of the post-war period, Europe’s capital markets remained largely closed to international capital flows. This paper explores the costs of this policy.
Hans Joachim Voth
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