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ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo +5 more
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ABSTRACT Innovation is essential for competitiveness in agribusiness facing dynamic environments. This study examines how market orientation, marketing, relational, and social capabilities influence innovation performance. Using data from 751 Spanish firms and a multi‐method approach that integrates Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM), Necessary ...
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez‐Azúa +1 more
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SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
From the financial crisis of 2007/2008 mainstream economic theory is in crisis. Most mainstream economists not only did not anticipate the depth of the crisis but not even considered that something like that was possible.
Victor A. Beker
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Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?
ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Evaluation du bien-être et de la pauvreté en économie : théorie normative et expérimentation
The objective of this chapter is to present the conceptual framework generally used by economists to understand and assess poverty. First and foremost, our goal is to demonstrate that the measures used in economics are not simple statistical indicators ...
Brice Magdalou
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Social norms and economic welfare
Abstract A norm is an established and self-reinforcing pattern of behaviour: everyone wants to play their part given the expectation that everyone else will continue to play theirs. It is, in short, an equilibrium of a game. This paper surveys some of the ways in which norms structure economic life: in the definition (and division) of property, in ...
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Naturalisation of Normative Economics [PDF]
AbstractIt is almost taken for granted among economists that the ultimate goal of public policy is to provide society with more “welfare”, and the concept of welfare as well as the general strategy how to improve it is roughly the subject of studies of normative economics.The naturalisation of normative economics is an attempt to analyse the “ultimate ...
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Asking the 5 W's for designing next‐generation bioprocessing
Abstract Biotechnology is expanding beyond traditional, centralized fermentation and toward next‐generation bioprocessing paradigms that emphasize flexible deployment outside the laboratory with application‐specific performance. However, many bioprocesses fail to translate beyond proof‐of‐concept into industrially viable systems because early design ...
Sangdo Yook +4 more
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Les enjeux de la fondation d’une science économique dite islamique
After the 1970s, some political-religious activists aim at founding scientifically an economic discipline in compliance with what would be the homo islamicus.
Frédéric Coste
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