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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn, Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Econometric Estimates of Deterrence of the Death Penalty: Facts or Ideology? [PDF]

In 2007, the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that each execution saves more than 70 lives. This example is used to show how easy it is, using simple or advanced econometric techniques, to produce results that do or do not support the ...
Gebhard Kirchgässner
core   +2 more sources

Serbia and expanded deterrence: Experiences and roadmaps [PDF]

Politika nacionalne bezbednosti
The strategic concept of extended deterrence emerged in the post-Cold War period by expanding the content of the Cold War concept of nuclear deterrence of the allies of the great powers.
Blagojević Veljko
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the deterrence properties of competition policy: the Competition Policy Indexes [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this paper is to describe in detail a set of newly developed indicators of the quality of competition policy, Competition Policy Indexes, or CPIs.
Ciari, Lorenzo, Buccirossi, Paolo, Vitale, Cristiana, Duso, Tomaso, Spagnolo, Giancarlo   +4 more
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Pesticide MRLs as Trade Barriers: Evidence From Vietnam's Coffee and Rice Exporters

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As tariffs have declined globally through bilateral and regional trade agreements, food safety standards have emerged as significant determinants of agricultural trade flows. This study examines the impact of maximum residue limits (MRLs) for five pesticides—Azoxystrobin, Chlorpyrifos, Chlorantraniliprole, Clothianidin, and Cyhalothrin—on ...
Nhat Mai Nguyen, Hoa‐Thi‐Minh Nguyen, Kaliappa Kalirajan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individual Difference and Deterrence

, 2018
This chapter builds on the concept on individual differences in deterrence theory in several important ways. First, we review recent studies expressly designed to test for heterogeneous deterrent effects based on individual differences, mainly focusing ...
Loughran, Thomas A, Piquero, Alex R, Paternoster, Raymond   +2 more
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Protection Motivation Theory and Farmers' Participation in Futures Markets: Evidence From Germany

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why German farmers show limited adoption of commodity futures contracts despite substantial price volatility, applying Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to understand the cognitive processes driving participation decisions in futures markets. Survey data from 303 German farmers collected in 2024 were analyzed using Partial
Hendrik Wever, Marius Michels, Oliver Musshoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Synergistic Effects of Deterrence by Denial and Safeguards in the Biological Weapons Convention: Building on the History of International Nuclear Safeguards

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The notion of deterrence by denial has been introduced in relation to biosecurity. The goal of deterrence by denial in biosecurity extends beyond dissuading attacks. It also encompasses the protection of citizens in the event of an attack.
Kazuko Hikawa
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal deterrence of cooperation [PDF]

International Journal of Game Theory, 2017
In the study of Gonzalez and Lardon, a new solution concept for cooperative games with transferable utility inspired by the core is introduced axiomatically. While core solution concepts have investigated the sustainability of cooperation among players, their solution concept, called contraction core, focuses on the deterrence of cooperation.
Gonzalez, Stéphane, Lardon, Aymeric
openaire   +5 more sources

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source