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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
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Energy transition in the South East Europe: The case of the Romanian power system

Energy Reports, 2020
With the exception of Albania, the countries of South-Eastern Europe (SEE) have high shares of electricity generation from an ageing fleet of coal-fired power units with quite low efficiencies. Energy planning-related decision-making regarding whether to
Nikolaos E. Koltsaklis, Athanasios S. Dagoumas, George Seritan, Radu Porumb   +3 more
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
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Could the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism promote climate mitigation? An economy-wide analysis

Advances in Climate Change Research
Due to concerns about carbon leakage and sectoral competitiveness, the European Union (EU) proposed implementing the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).
Kun Zhang, Yun-Fei Yao, Xiang-Yan Qian, Yu-Fei Zhang, Qiao-Mei Liang, Yi-Ming Wei   +5 more
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The impact of production shocks on maize markets in Ethiopia: implications for regional trade and food security

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2020
In this article, we demonstrated the dynamic impact of a bumper harvest and drought shocks on the maize market and on the trade regime in Ethiopia. Regional market integration of Ethiopia’s white maize market with the South Sudan and Kenyan maize markets
Mesay Yami, Ferdi Meyer, Rashid Hassan
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Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli, Wei Yang, Jia Han, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Massimiliano Petracci, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +5 more
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Assessing new block order options of the EUPHEMIA algorithm: An optimization model for the economic dispatch problem in power exchanges

Energy Reports, 2020
To implement the process of European power markets’ integration, a market-clearing algorithm has been developed among European power exchanges under the title EUPHEMIA (Pan-European Hybrid Electricity Market Integration Algorithm), being a strictly ...
Nikolaos E. Koltsaklis, Ioannis Zenginis, Athanasios S. Dagoumas   +2 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Sequencing of the chloroplast genome of Taimo, a paddy cultivar of Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) in the Ryukyu Archipelago

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources
Taimo is a paddy cultivar of Taro (Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott) that is traditionally consumed in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Its origin remains unknown, although it has been identified as belonging to a haplotype commonly found in tropical and ...
Reina Takaesu, Yukihiro Kinjo, Crystal-Leigh Clitheroe, Haruki Sunagawa, Thomas Bourguignon, Seikoh Saitoh   +5 more
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Combining Policy Network and Model-Based Scenario Analyses: An Assessment of Future Ecosystem Goods and Services in Swiss Mountain Regions

Ecology and Society, 2013
We argue that the often-proclaimed disregard of ex-ante assessments of the provision of ecosystem goods and services in policy-making processes is not only due to a neglect or a misinterpretation of the results of such assessments in the relevant ...
Christian Hirschi, Alexander Widmer, Simon Briner, Robert Huber   +3 more
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