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Spatial price competition and buyer power in the U.S. beef packing industry

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop a spatially‐explicit model of the U.S. beef packing industry to study key questions related to competition in an oligopsony setting. Cattle supplies are modeled at the county level, and packing plants' location, capacity, and ownership are taken as given. Packers procure negotiated cattle by competing in prices in each local (county)
GianCarlo Moschini, T. Jake Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Sinking peatlands: Optimal control of subsidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of about 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in these areas requires lowering groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry, which leaves future generations worse off by accelerating subsidence and increasing future costs.
Suphi Sen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Truth: The Howard Government, HREOC, and Bringing Them Home

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the commencement of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families. The Inquiry and its final report, Bringing Them Home, highlighted the traumatic impact and nationwide extent of child removal ...
Anne Maree Payne
wiley   +1 more source

“Everything Is Just Done Away With Now”: Contentious Practices of Scalar Brokerage Motivated by Narratives of Welfare Nostalgia in Postcolonial Rotterdam

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
wiley   +1 more source

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