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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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An application of the tourist test to Colombian merchants
Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2022 As in many developing economies, cash is still widely used in Colombia, even among merchants who accept payment cards. Indeed, 60% of these merchants use dissuasive strategies to make their clients pay with cash. This paper presents estimates of merchant
Carlos A. Arango-Arango +2 more
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Assessing Photovoltaic Recycling Capacities and Policy Gaps in the European Union
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study maps photovoltaic recycling capacity in the EU and key global regions, highlighting gaps between growing waste volumes and available infrastructure. It combines survey insights and policy analysis to identify recycling bottlenecks and offers recommendations to boost circularity in the solar sector.
Nieves Espinosa +3 more
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Increasing the volume of cataract surgery: an experience in rural China
Community Eye Health Journal, 2006 Cataract: the situation in ChinaEighteen per cent of the world’s blind people live in China. The country is home to one of the world’s largest populations of blind people, an estimated 6.6 million.
Leshan Tan
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Proceedings of: Tagung Zukünftige Stromnetze - Future Power Grids ConferenceThe reform of §14a of the German Energy Industry Act (EnWG) opens up the possibility for customers to choose variable grid fees for the first time.
Niklas Jooß +2 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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The analysis of the business registration reform and the situation of small and medium sized enterprises in the Republic of Srpska [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2016 The largest number of companies in the Republic of Srpska falls into the category of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and most of them are organized in the form of limited liability companies, usually with the prescribed minimum share capital ...
Dušanić-Gačić Svetlana +2 more
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Student loan reforms for German higher education: financing tuition fees [PDF]
, 2014 It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of nontrivial tuition charges.
Chapman, Bruce, Sinning, Mathias
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson +3 more
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