Results 191 to 200 of about 76,412 (268)

Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selection of helicopter bases and transport modes to minimize pre-hospital times in Iceland. [PDF]

open access: yesScand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med
Nguyen P   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Does Mandated Non‐Financial Disclosure Affect Corporate Cash Holdings? Evidence From the CSR Disclosure Mandate in China

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether and how mandatory non‐financial disclosure affects corporate cash holdings. Using a panel data set of Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2005 to 2012 and exploiting the introduction of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure for a subset of firms as a quasi‐natural experiment, we find that firms subject to ...
Adrian Cheung, Tianpei Luo, Siwen Song
wiley   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy