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Determinants of life insurance consumption across countries [PDF]
The importance of life insurance companies as part of the financial sector has significantly increased over the past decades, both as provider of important financial services to consumers and as a major investor in the capital market.
Beck, Thorsten, Webb, Ian
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Feeling the heat: Financial crises and their impact on global climate change [PDF]
This interdisciplinary paper uses world-systems analysis as a theoretical framework to argue that both the 1870s, 1930’s economic depressions reduced mean global temperatures.
Giedraitis, Vincentas Rolandas +2 more
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, 2003 We consider a one period (two time points-) model of efficient risk sharing, when the risk of possible sharing rules are constrained to be linear. This can be interpreted as a model of a market for common stocks. Here we study the properties of a competitive equilibrium in an incomplete market. The lack of Pareto optimality is then the typical case. We
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Market Power after the Transition [PDF]
Agribusiness, Financial Economics,
Merel, Pierre R., Thome, Karen E.
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My thesis consists of three individual papers, covering topics on corporate social responsibility, public policies, corporate governance, and econometric methodology. The first paper explores the interaction between public policies and private-sector prosocial motives.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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PUBLIC POLICY EDUCATION ON INFLATION [PDF]
Financial Economics,
Doering, Otto C., III, Jones, Bob F.
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Increasing the effectiveness of financial education in the workplace [PDF]
, 2008 effectiveness of financial education and saving programs ” (University of Chicago Press), and the article “Household saving behavior: The role of financial literacy, information and financial education programs, ” written for the conference and ...
Lusardi, Annamaria
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