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How Laws Affect Contracts: Evidence from Yankee Bond Covenants [PDF]

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We examine how country-level legal and institutional differences in creditor and shareholder rights shape the use of bond covenants. Using comprehensive debt covenant information for a sample of Yankee bonds issued by firms from more than 50 countries ...
John Wald, Lukas Roth, Yaxuan Qi
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign-debt Renegotiations: A Strategic Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
The process of debt-rescheduling between a creditor and a sovereign (LDC) debtor is modeled as a noncooperative game built on a one-sector growth model.
Raquel Fernandez, Robert W. Rosenthal
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Technological change, capital deepening, and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth: Cross‐country comparison of 18 OECD countries

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
wiley   +1 more source

Do Consumers Value Diversity in Agriculture? A Choice Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm ownership in the US today is racially and ethnically homogeneous. Diverse farmers and ranchers make up less than 10% of all producers, they tend to be less financially stable and have tighter profit margins. In the past few years, both government and industry programs have aimed to increase the participation and profitability of diverse ...
Maria Kalaitzandonakes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Row Crops and the U.S. Agricultural Trade Deficit: Recent Trends and Policy Issues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Row crops such as soybeans, corn, wheat, and cotton are the backbone of the U.S. farm sector, accounting for around $60 billion of exports in 2023. While U.S. row crop exports remain robust, growing concerns over the rising U.S. agricultural trade deficit underscore the need to appraise the ongoing market and policy dynamics affecting the ...
William Ridley, Stephen Devadoss
wiley   +1 more source

Development Status and Future Prospects of Hydrogen Energy Technology: Production, Storage, and Cost Analysis

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
Hydrogen is an energy carrier, produced from renewable and nonrenewable resources. It can be stored in a variety of materials and transported to distant locations. This article reviews progress in hydrogen technology by looking at environmental and economic impact, cost analysis, and policy support at government level as way forward for bringing it to ...
Xuexue Pan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Some aspects of liability of the guarantor to the debtor’s creditors under the civil law of Russia

open access: yesVestnik Omskoj Ûridičeskoj Akademii, 2012
This article analyzes the guarantee agreement as one of the most common ways to enforce the executions obligations. The author focuses on the provisions worked out by the judicial-arbitration and banking practices, which require a theoretical ...
Malanina E. N.
doaj  

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