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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Poverty, money, and happiness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this paper I plan to ask some potentially disorienting questions about the relationship between poverty, money, and ...
Smith, Nick
core   +1 more source

Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFFECTS OF INTERNAL AUDIT ON FIRM PROFITABILITY. EVIDENCE FROM CEE COUNTRIES [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2019
The aim of the paper is to analyze if independent internal audit committee has effects on firm profitability. By analyzing the annual reports of companies in 11 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), we aim to highlight the implications and ...
FIRTESCU Bogdan, TERINTE Paula
doaj  

Quantum money from knots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Quantum money is a cryptographic protocol in which a mint can produce a quantum state, no one else can copy the state, and anyone (with a quantum computer) can verify that the state came from the mint.
Farhi, Edward   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
wiley   +1 more source

Public Policies to Support Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Empirical Evidences from Romania

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2016
Based on a set of variables measured in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study, we analyzed the entrepreneurial profi le of Romanian economy after the onset of fi nancial crisis.
Sorin Gabriel ANTON, Mihaela ONOFREI
doaj  

Benjamin Franklin and the birth of a paper money economy [PDF]

open access: yes
This publication, an essay based on a lecture presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia by Professor Farley Grubb of the University of Delaware, tells readers about Benjamin Franklin’s role in the debate about devising a system of paper money
Farley Grubb
core  

U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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