Results 181 to 190 of about 1,838,696 (376)

Financial Structure and Economic Welfare: Applied General Equilibrium Development Economics [PDF]

, 2010
Robert M. Townsend
openalex   +1 more source

Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Determining the Use of Guaranteed Loans by U.S. Commercial Banks [PDF]

Financial Economics,
Ahrendsen, Bruce L., Dixon, Bruce L., Koenig, Steven R., Settlage, Latisha A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Trends and Risks in Mergers and Acquisitions: A Review

Risks
This study examines risk factors in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) identified in the recent literature, addressing the following question: “What risk factors associated with M&A transactions are discussed in the recent academic literature?” A semi ...
Manuel García-Nieto, Vicente Bueno-Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Ramón-Jerónimo, Raquel Flórez-López   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Three Essays in Financial Economics

, 2013
The first manuscript investigates the effects of manager-shareholder agency conflicts in the presence of macroeconomic conditions. Fitting a structural model, parameter estimates imply higher agency costs for growth firms than for value firms (3.45% vs. 1.77%). Dynamic aggregate agency costs are strongly procyclical (on average, 2.31% in boom, 0.95% in
openaire   +3 more sources

Economic Feasibility of Crop‐Livestock Integration System in Brazil

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the economic feasibility of the Brazilian crop‐livestock integration system. Under this system, the Brazilian farmer can produce soybeans, corn, and graze for cattle on the same land during one crop year. This technology can substantially increase agricultural production in the country.
Yuri C. D. Calil, Luis Ribera
wiley   +1 more source

INFLATION AND ITS CONTROL [PDF]

Financial Economics,
Ford, Richard G., Peterson, Everett E.
core   +1 more source

The economics of deleveraging: The aftermath of financialization [PDF]

, 2010
Thomas I. Palley
openalex   +1 more source

The Financial and Economic Crisis and the Aberrance of Economics

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 2013
Abstract/Zusammenfassung Positivism-empiricism-falsificationism has become the ‘state-of-the-art’ methodology of economics. In this article it will be argued that this approach (1) suffers from (logical) deficiencies when applied to the science of human action and (2) has helped legitimizing, and putting into practice, policies that have actually ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source