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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Agribusiness, 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
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Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain
Agribusiness, 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
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Marketing cooperatives and financial structure: a transaction costs economics analysis [PDF]
, 2001 George Hendrikse, Cees Veerman
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, 2003 This dissertation studies topics in financial economics. In the first chapter, The Corporate Supply of (Quasi) Safe Assets, I examine whether the demand for safe assets affects nonfinancial corporations in the US. Investors value safety services in financial assets, such as the ability to serve as a store of value, to serve as collateral, or to meet ...
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The Financial Sector and Economic Growth* [PDF]
Economic Record, 2009 The Mankiw–Romer–Weil (1992) augmented Solow–Swan (Solow 1956; Swan 1956) model is extended to incorporate the financial sector in this study. Distinguishing between financial capital, physical capital and human capital, the research attempts to identify, in particular, the effects of financial capital on economic growth.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Futures markets are critical to price discovery and often dominate spot markets. We analyze the linkages between daily corn futures and spot prices in the United States using dynamic time warping. This nonparametric pattern recognition technique has several advantages over traditional time series methods.
Dragan Miljkovic +2 more
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The Economics and Regulation of Financial Privacy - A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Europe [PDF]
, 2002 openalex +1 more source
, 2017 This thesis consists of three essays in financial economics. The first chapter analyses the fundraising process in the hedge fund industry and the role financial intermediaries play in this process. Using the SEC form D filings, I document that broker-sold funds underperform directly-sold funds by 2% (1.6%) per year on a risk-adjusted basis before ...
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FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH [PDF]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2012 Using a two-sector endogenous growth model, the speed of convergence is determined primarily by the gap in rates of return between physical and human capital. In closed economies, for a typical situation of having relatively less physical capital than in a steady state, the return on physical capital will be significantly high, whereas the return on ...
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Determining the influence of belonging to a wine protected designation of origin on profitability
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract To guide consumers, wineries need credible attributes about the quality of their wines and its origin. In Spain, protected designations of origin (PDO) guarantee that the wine has been produced in a certain wine region in accordance with specific and officially regulated quality criteria thus providing elements of guarantee to the consumer ...
Jordi Moreno Gené +2 more
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