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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Can Digital Human Capital Promote Farmers' Willingness to Engage in Green Production? Exploring the Role of Online Learning and Social Networks. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel)Gong S, Jiang L, Yu Z.
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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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Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088-1800). [PDF]
J Econ Growth (Boston)Croix D, Goñi M.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The primary objective of this study was to investigate whether the cost of processing cotton using high‐speed roller gins is comparable to saw gins. The results from a “true” random effect model estimated using proprietary data voluntarily shared by cotton gins operating in Arizona and California showed that the average cost inefficiency for ...
Ram N. Acharya +4 more
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Like mother like daughter, the role of low human capital in intergenerational cycles of disadvantage: the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study. [PDF]
Front Glob Womens HealthMarphatia AA +4 more
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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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Correction: Non-linear links between human capital, educational inequality and income inequality, evidence from China. [PDF]
PLoS OneXu M, Chen S, Chen J, Zhang T.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa +1 more
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Human capital and lifetime income gains of scaling-up small-quantity lipid nutrient supplements among children under 2 years: A modelling analysis. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthPerumal N +4 more
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