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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Clues to Crime: Insights from Mongolia

Economies
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between economic indicators, law enforcement mechanisms, and property-related crimes in Mongolia using a time-series econometric approach.
Dagvasuren Ganbold, Enkhbayar Jamsranjav, Young-Rae Kim, Erdenechuluun Jargalsaikhan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Science and Ideology in Economic, Political, and Social Thought [PDF]

, 2006
This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural ...
) Mishan1969, Anthony Downs, Arnold Zellner, Bill Readings, Bruno S Frey, Chalmers Johnson, Christopher Lasch, Claude Hillinger, Claude Hillinger, Clifford R Wymer, Daniel Bell, David F Hendry, Eduardo Fonseca, Francis Fukuyama, Franklin M Fisher, Gene Callahan, Gunnar Myrdal, Hal R Varian, Hartley James, Henry W Spiegel, I Mclean, J Harsanyi, James M Buchanan, John Eatwell, K J Arrow, Karl Popper, Keynes, Khurram Husain, L H Klaassen, Larry D Stearns, Lawrence R Klein, Lionel Robbins, Lotfi A Zadeh, M Fleming, Michael Reiter, Michal Kalecki, Milton Friedman, Olson Mancur, Peter B Pashigian, Richard G Anderson, Richard M Titmuss, Richard Stone, Robert H Frank, Robert Leeson, Roger E Backhouse, Rudolf E Kalman, S H Shakman, Simon Blackburn, Smith Adam, Sonja M Amadae, Stanley , Tibor Scitovsky, Tinbergen, W Barnett   +53 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behavioral Economics and Government Purchases – Some Insights into the Fiscal Psychology of Public Expenditure

International Journal of Public Finance, 2020
Behavioral economics have increased acceptance in public finance, thus challenging the neoclassical approach to human decision-making. However, so far, behavioral economics' fundamental results on cognitive heuristics, illusions, and biases with respect
Thomas Döring, Ruven D. Oehmke
doaj   +1 more source

Economic Fundamentals of the Knowledge Society [PDF]

Policy Futures in Education, 2003
This article provides an introduction to fundamental issues in the development of new knowledge-based economies. After placing their emergence in historical perspective and proposing a theoretical framework that distinguishes knowledge from information, the authors characterise the specific nature of such economies. They go on to deal with some of the
Paul A. David, Dominique Foray
openaire   +3 more sources

Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source