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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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"Narrow Banks: An Alternative Approach to Banking Reform" [PDF]
Recent banking problems have prompted a variety of proposals for reforming deposit insurance and the banking system. Nearly all of these proposals, however, suffer from a common flaw - they would fail to create a banking system that is both stable and ...
Kenneth Spong
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Farm labor scarcity and its uneven impacts on crop producers in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of farm labor scarcity on producers in the United States across different crop production systems. Between 2002 and 2017, we disentangle the effects of labor scarcity from the impacts of rising commodity demand, technological change, and supply of other inputs on labor market outcomes.
Srabashi Ray +4 more
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Comparison of factors influencing landslide risk near a forest road in Chungju-si, South Korea
Geoenvironmental DisastersBackground The study aimed to identify the influential factors required to prepare landslide vulnerability maps and establish disaster prevention measures for mountainous areas with forest roads.
Seong-Woo Moon +4 more
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Narrow Banks: An Alternative Approach to Banking Reform
, 1993 Recent banking problems have prompted a variety of proposals for reforming deposit insurance and the banking system. Nearly all of these proposals, however, suffer from a common flaw - they would fail to create a banking system that is both stable and ...
Spong, Kenneth
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
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Has Inequity Faced by Young Australians With Disability Changed Since the Turn of the Century?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the introduction of various policies aimed at promoting equality for people with disability since Australia ratified the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2008, there has been little evaluation regarding the extent of change in inequity since then.
Asha Parkinson +5 more
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A Theoretical Analysis of Narrow Banking Proposals [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to examine narrow banking proposals. First, we survey the narrow banking proposals presented in the United States and Japan, and categorize them by means of two standards: (1) whether safe assets that a narrow bank is allowed
Nakamura, Hisashi, Kobayakawa, Shuji
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Banking consolidation and correspondent banking [PDF]
Banking consolidation, spurred by interstate branching deregulation, is changing markets' competitive structure. Policymakers and regulators have focused on the implications for customers in retail and wholesale markets rather than consolidation's impact
James B. Thomson, William P. Osterberg
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