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Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang +2 more
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Endogeneity test: 2SLS regression.
Endogeneity test: 2SLS regression.
XuDong Chen (13113380) +2 more
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Managing the endogeneity problem of the market structure: a study on banking competition
Recent literature suggests that the market structure is an endogenous variable that is determined by a firm’s behaviour and the competitive environment of the industry.
Tri Mulyaningsih +2 more
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Fever is the hallmark of the stereotyped host response to microbial infection, although it is just one of a number of high-risk strategies employed by the infected host to clear itself of invading pathogens. The febrile response is accompanied by activation of multiple endogenous antipyretic systems that serve to suppress its magnitude or duration ...
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Endogenous Fertility and Development Traps with Endogenous Lifetime [PDF]
We extend the literature on endogenous lifetime and economic growth by Chakraborty (2004) and Bunzel and Qiao (2005) to endogenous fertility. We show that development traps due to underinvestments in health cannot appear when fertility is an economic decision variable and the costs of children are represented by a constant fraction of the parents ...
Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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U.S. Sweetener Demand Analysis: A QUAIDS Model Application
We estimate the expenditure, price, and Engel parameters for the major U.S. caloric sweeteners (sugar, high-fructose corn syrup [HFCS], and glucose), for the 1975Ð2013 period using the quadratic almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS).
Prithviraj Lakkakula +2 more
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Characteristics of the Board of Directors and Corporate Financial Performance—Empirical Evidence
The objectives of the research are to investigate the characteristics of the Board of Directors on the financial performance of the enterprise using sample data from 52 construction and real estate enterprises listed on the Vietnam stock exchange in the ...
Van Chien Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Thuan Huynh
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Endogenous network dynamics [PDF]
In all social and economic interactions, individuals or coalitions choose not only with whom to interact but how to interact, and over time both the structure (the "with whom") and the strategy ("the how") of interactions change. Our objectives here are to model the structure and strategy of interactions prevailing at any point in time as a directed ...
Frank H. Page, Jr., Myrna H. Wooders
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