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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Hyperbolic Discounting can represent Consistent Preferences [PDF]
Among non Exponential Discounting (ED) models, introduced to capture time inconsistent choices, Hyperbolic Discounting (HD) recently gained particular relevance.
Nicola Dimitri
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Discounting and Confidence [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analy- sis complements the probabilistic characterization of uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth am- biguity aversion as well as discounting under a disentanglement of risk aversion from aversion to intertemporal substitution ...
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Assessing the Impact of Promotions on Consumer Purchasing Behavior During Crises
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how households modify their food expenditure decisions during times of crisis is essential because consumer purchasing behavior frequently changes during these times. This study looks at these behavioral shifts during the COVID‐19 pandemic, concentrating on how price sensitivity and response to sales promotions changed over the ...
Wafa Mehaba, José María Gil
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting [PDF]
In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is ...
Ralph Winkler
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Cost‐Benefit Analysis of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Fertilizer Trade
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), launching 2026, will charge EU importers for embedded carbon emissions, aiming to reduce emissions but raising import costs. Shifts in demand following implementation may reduce carbon emissions, but importers will bear the cost of increased prices.
Natalie Crisci +3 more
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Discounting Models for Outcomes over Continuous Time [PDF]
Events that occur over a period of time can be described either as sequences of outcomes at discrete times or as functions of outcomes in an interval of time. This paper presents discounting models for events of the latter type. Conditions on preferences
Charles M. Harvey, Lars Peter Østerdal
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Hoarders Only Discount Consumables and are More Patient for Money
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2016 Individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) excessively acquire and retain goods while also exhibiting characteristics of impulsivity and addiction. However, HD individuals do not always perform impulsively in experiments, they do not appear interested in ...
Brian Donald Vickers +3 more
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Cost Pass‐Through in Crisis: Evidence From the German Malt‐Beer Supply Chain
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Global agri‐food supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical shocks, climate volatility, and market consolidation, factors that disrupt traditional price relationships and reshape market power dynamics. Nowhere is this more visible than in the brewing sector, where agricultural raw materials meet complex industrial processing and ...
Nikolas Bublik, Lukáš Čechura
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Some Common Confusions about Hyperbolic Discounting [PDF]
There is much confusion over what "hyperbolic discounting" means. I argue that what matters is the use of relativistic instead of objective time, not the shape of the discount function.time inconsistency, hyperbolic ...
Eric Rasmusen
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