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The effects of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw returning behavior

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Structural changes in economics during the last fifty years [PDF]

open access: yes
This essay portrays the major currents in recent economic thinking against the orthodoxy and dogmatism of neoclassical economics. It places behavioral economics, experimental economics, evolutionary economics, ecological economics, new institutional ...
Mishra, SK
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Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Behavioral Approach to Organizational Choice in Tajikistan's Agriculture

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2018
Most communist economies were dominated by large collective farms. Today, smaller family farms often coexist with larger corporate and collective farms in these countries.
Malte Muller, Jens Rommel
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a Cognitive Experimental Economics [PDF]

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This paper aims to analyze and exemplify some methodological implications on the way to conduct experiments related to the adoption of a cognitive approach in Economics. Many differences arise in relation to a more traditional way.
Marco Novarese
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chimpanzees Rarely Settle on Consistent Patterns of Play in the Hawk Dove, Assurance, and Prisoner's Dilemma Games, in a Token Exchange Task

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition, 2019
Games derived from experimental economics can be used to directly compare decision-making behavior across primate species, including humans. For example, the use of coordination games, such as the Assurance game, has shown that a variety of primate ...
Katie Hall   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating trading and logistics is an important challenge in commodity trading. Trading and logistics are strategic decisions and are integral to most commodities including grain shipping by rail, in addition to other modes (barges, ocean shipping). There are substantial risks, such as the ordering and placement of rail cars.
William W. Wilson, Jesse Klebe
wiley   +1 more source

Do Fishermen Have Different Attitudes toward Risk? An Application of Prospect Theory to the Study of Vietnamese Fishermen

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009
Field experiment and household survey data are combined to investigate whether working in a risky occupation such as fishing makes fishermen have different risk preferences than individuals in other occupations.
Quang Nguyen, PingSun Leung
doaj   +1 more source

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