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ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Trans-Tasman transmission of monetary shocks : evidence from a VAR approach : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Business Studies (Financial Economics) at Massey University, Albany, 2004 [PDF]
This study investigates the cross-country transmission of monetary shocks, using evidence from Australia and New Zealand. A vector autoregressive model is constructed, using data from 1985:1-2003:4.
Jolly, Sam
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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The impact of monetary policy on New Zealand business cycles and inflation variability [PDF]
This paper uses the open economy structural VAR model developed in Buckle, Kim, Kirkham, McLellan and Sharma (2002) to evaluate the impact of monetary policy on New Zealand business cycles and inflation variability and the output/ inflation variance ...
Kunhong Kim +2 more
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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
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Reconsidering the role of monetary indicators for euro area inflation from a Bayesian perspective using group inclusion probabilities [PDF]
This paper addresses the relative importance of monetary indicators for forecasting inflation in the euro area in a Bayesian framework. Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA)based on predictive likelihoods provides a framework that allows for the estimation of ...
Scharnagl, Michael +1 more
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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
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The paper analyzes the monetary policy behavior by developing a long-run structural macroeconometric model; the Structural Cointegrating Vector Autoregression. The model is empirically proposed by Garratt et. al.
Solikin M. Juhro
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Exchange rates, monetary policy regimes, and beliefs [PDF]
The authors investigate an international monetary business-cycle model in which agents face monetary policy processes that incorporate regime shifts. In any given period agents cannot directly observe the policy regime, but instead form beliefs that are ...
Jeff Wrase, Keith Sill
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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
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