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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Social Justice in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe

open access: yesComparative Economic Research
The article aims to compare the level of social justice in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in terms of the individual indicators that constitute the Social Justice Index and to determine their level of convergence with the European ...
Katarzyna Skorupińska-Cieślak
doaj   +1 more source

Optimal Timing of Farmland Investment - An Experimental Study on Farmers' Decision Behavior - [PDF]

open access: yes
Replaced with revised version of paper 5/26/11.Experimental Economics, Investment, Real Options, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance, Farm Management, Financial Economics, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Risk and Uncertainty, C91, D81, D92,
Maart, Syster Christin, Musshoff, Oliver
core   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Penetration of pragmatism in institutional economics [PDF]

open access: yesجستارهای اقتصادی, 2007
This paper aims to show that pragmatism is the philosophical andmethodological base for the institutional economics. It alsodemonstrates that institutional economists, based on pragmatism,where they take it as an approach, use the qualitative ...
Abolghasem Mahdavi, Hamid Padash
doaj  

Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions, Institutional Change, Strategic Assets and Competitive Advantage of American and French Film Industries (1895-1998) [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses neo-institutional economics (I.E.) to examine why French film production firms have lost their competitive advantage to their American competitors from 1895 to 1998. I.E. posits that major institutional changes result in changes in firms'
GHERTMAN, Michel, HADIDA, Allegre L.
core  

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE INFLUENCE OF INSTITUTIONALISTS ON THE NEW DEAL: AND WHY THE MAINSTREAM LITERATURE OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT IGNORES THIS PERIOD IN HISTORY

open access: yesWorld Review of Political Economy, 2011
This article holds that institutional economics constituted the economic foundation for Roosevelt's New Deal. Institutional economics created the ideal environment for the implementation of the state intervention measures of the ...
Lin Zhang, Yingli Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Do Private Labels Generate Loyalty? Empirical Evidence for German Frozen Pizza [PDF]

open access: yes
food retailing, private labels, brand loyalty, panel data, hazard analysis, Consumer/Household Economics, Demand and Price Analysis, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Marketing,
Brosig, Stephan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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