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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An econometric model for popularrity on media

open access: yesCumhuriyet Science Journal, 2021
This paper aims to determine and estimate an econometric model which can be used to forecast media popularity of a governmental organization. Number of media sources monitored was used as regressors while taking types of these sources into account.
Erol Terzi, Orçun Aydın
doaj  

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Econometric Methods for Research in Education [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on understanding how the assumptions made to justify and implement such methods relate to the underlying economic model and the ...
Costas Meghir, Steven G. Rivkin
core   +2 more sources

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Econometric Modeling as Information Aggregation [PDF]

open access: yes
A forecast produced by an econometric model is a weighted aggregate of predetermined variables in the model. In many models the number of predetermined variables used is very large, often exceeding the number of observations. A method is proposed in this
Ray C. Fair, Robert J. Shiller
core  

Not All Agreements Are Equal: Heterogeneous Effects of RTAs on Latin American Agri‐Food Exports, 1990–2019

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the final decade of the 20th century, Latin American countries have increasingly regarded the signing of regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a promising strategy for expanding their exports. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to assess the impact of RTAs on agri‐food exports in Latin America over the period 1990 ...
María‐Isabel Ayuda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the New Keynesian Phillips Curve under VAR-based learning.

open access: yes, 2007
This paper proposes an econometric evaluation of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) in the euro area, under a particular specification of the adaptive learning hypothesis.
FANELLI, LUCA
core  

Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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