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Delaying the Inevitable? U.S. Screwworm Closures and Feeder Cattle Market Dynamics

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biosecurity trade restrictions are commonly framed as preventive measures, yet in many settings they function primarily as policies of delay: they impose immediate market costs while only postponing the arrival of biological risks. This paper evaluates that intertemporal tradeoff using the 2024–2025 US suspension of live cattle imports from ...
Shelby Sumner, Savannah Jones, Tania Islam, K. Aleks Schaefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Earnings informativeness and institutional investors on boards

Revista de Contabilidad: Spanish Accounting Review, 2018
We study the role of directors appointed by banks and those appointed by investment funds in the informativeness of accounting earnings in a low investor protection environment with a high presence of institutional directors.
Carolina Bona-Sánchez, Emma García Meca, Jerónimo Pérez-Alemán   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

The Impact of Corporate Biodiversity Information Disclosure on China Institutional Investors’ CSR Investment Willingness: The Roles of Intergenerational Responsibility and Environmental Risk Management

Risks
The increasing recognition of biodiversity loss as a critical environmental and financial risk has heightened calls for greater emphasis on corporate information disclosures.
Zhibin Tao
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Ex‐Ante Assessment of Farm Resilience to Institutional Shocks: A Modeling Approach

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the agent‐based model SWISSland, we simulate farm‐level responses and interactions under two institutional shocks: tariff reductions and direct payment reductions. Using a framework we developed, we assess resilience capacities, resilience attributes, and the provision of private and public goods, following the shock.
Nadja El Benni, Gabriele Mack
wiley   +1 more source

Whom do institutional investors serve as stewards? An empirical analysis of stewardship code-compliant investors in Korea

Borsa Istanbul Review
Institutional investors now exceed individual investors in number of shares held. To provide empirical support for the stewardship role of institutional investors, we examine the relationships of the presence of stewardship code-compliant institutional ...
Ji Seon Yoo, Ja Eun Koo
doaj   +1 more source

Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone, Craig W. Carpenter, Courtney Bir, Andrew J. Van Leuven, Rebecca Wasserman‐Olin, Wendong Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do institutional investor and group, firm and time effects matter in enterprise performance in the corporate life cycle?

Cogent Business & Management, 2019
Corporations undergo growth, maturity and decline, stages which form the corporate life cycle. This study discusses the influence of group, firm and time effects on enterprise performance variation at the different life cycle stages of Taiwan’s ...
Chiau-Shi Yang, Jonchi Shyu
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers' Preferences for Fossil‐Free Mineral Nitrogen Fertilizers: Role of Prices, Climate, Production Origin, and Identity

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disruptions in global fertilizer markets and climate targets have increased interest in fossil‐free mineral nitrogen fertilizers. This study examines farmers' preferences for conventional (fossil‐based) and fossil‐free fertilizers using a labeled discrete choice experiment with 211 Swedish farmers.
Nasir Adam, Hui Tao, Gordana Manevska‐Tasevska, Per‐Anders Hansson, Vivian Wei Huang, Helena Hansson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

MODERATING EFFECT OF BOARD GENDER DIVERSITY ON INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR AND AGENCY COST

Sriwijaya International Journal of Dynamic Economics and Business
This study aims to provide empirical evidence of the influence of institutional investors on agency costs and to predict the role of board gender diversity in moderating the impact of institutional investors on agency costs.
Elva Nuraina Elva, Sendy Dwi Haryanto2 Sendy, Gita Arasy Harwida Gita   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agronomic and Nutritional Perspectives on Vegetable Crops in Africa

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Vegetable production plays a key role in food security, nutrition, and livelihoods across Africa. Moreover, African indigenous vegetables emerge as underutilized yet highly valuable crops, rich in macro‐ and micronutrients, as well as bioactive compounds with an array of health benefits.
Đorđe Vojnović, Pamela Owusu Osei, Sina Siavash Moghaddam, Issiake Konate, Jelena Popović‐Đorđević   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source