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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach +5 more
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Screening disability insurance applications [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates the effects of stricter screening of disability insurance applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in two of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen ...
A Nevins +15 more
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Resilience of Small Beef Packers and the USDA Meat Supply Chain Initiative
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We focus on the plant‐size resilience relationship among small beef packers during COVID‐19. Defining resilience as the ability to maintain or increase slaughter and non‐resilience as otherwise, we use survey and secondary data to estimate a logit model where resilience is a function of a plant's capacity and age in addition to labor condition
Sunil P. Dhoubhadel +2 more
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Optimal Insurance Policies in the Presence of Costs [PDF]
Risks, 2017 We reconsider costs in insurance, and suggest a new type of cost function, which we argue is a natural choice when there are relatively small, but frequent, claims. If a fixed cost is incurred each time a claim is made, we obtain a Pareto optimal deductible even if the cost function does not vary with the indemnity.
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Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets with Moral Hazard [PDF]
This paper examines the existence and nature of competitive equilibrium with moral hazard. The more insurance an individual has, the less care will he take.
Joseph Stiglitz, Richard Arnott
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020 Background The aim of this study was to measure differences in quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) by income in Korea at the national and district levels.
Dohee Lim +7 more
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Economic Feasibility of Crop‐Livestock Integration System in Brazil
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the economic feasibility of the Brazilian crop‐livestock integration system. Under this system, the Brazilian farmer can produce soybeans, corn, and graze for cattle on the same land during one crop year. This technology can substantially increase agricultural production in the country.
Yuri C. D. Calil, Luis Ribera
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The Determinants and the Size of International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe After 2004
Comparative Economic Research, 2017 Migration is a very important socio‑economic issue in the contemporary world. One of the interesting and pertinent research problems worth considering concerns the scale and nature of migration from countries which entered the European Union in 2004 and ...
Anna Organiściak-Krzyszkowska
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Policy Measures and Cyber Insurance: A Framework
, 2017 The role of the insurance industry in driving improvements in cyber security has been identified as mutually beneficial for both insurers and policy-makers.
Daniel W. Woods, A. Simpson
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