Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Measurement of Export Market Concentration for the Largest European Economic Integrations
Background: By joining different regional economic trade agreements, countries achieve preferential trade liberalisation. There are four main types of regional economic agreements in the world today: free trade area, customs union, common market, and ...
Jošić Hrvoje +2 more
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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Monetary Integration in West Africa – Development and Functioning of CFA Frank Area
This article aims to present the development and history of the African CFA franc zone, which is the official currency in two groupings of African integration – the West African Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Monetary Community of Central ...
Michał Zaremba
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EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF THE ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION: OVERLOOK AT THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AND THE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS USED (FROM THE MAASTRICHT TREATY TO THE PRESENT DAY) [PDF]
While in the previous study we presented the premises of the emergence of what is the economic and monetary Union today, and we demonstrated that in this process the European Council had a fundamental role to play even before it was enshrined in primary ...
Dragoș–Adrian BANTAȘ +1 more
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ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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The EMU is Done. How about the Fiscal Union and the Next Future of the United Europe? [PDF]
The economic and monetary union was actually compulsory, despite that the Maastricht Treaty does not express as such. Moreover, specialists argue that the monetary union is equally required to be fiscal as well. And what is this? Of course, strenghtening
Liviu C. Andrei
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INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF MONETARY AND FINANCIAL REGULATION IN THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION
The importance of developing and putting to practice the coordinated approaches to the monetary and financial policy in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union is increasing along with the need to enhance the integration cooperation on the basis of ...
V. Ia. Pishchik, E. A. Zvonova
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Economic and Monetary Union: What Kind of Convergence?
This paper explores the complexities of convergence within the European Union, focusing on both nominal and real convergence in the context of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
Igor Cvečić, Marko Tomljanović
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