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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Optimal Taxation and Investment‑ Specific Technological Change
Notas Económicas, 2020 In this paper, we look at the relationship between Investment Specific Technological Change (ISTC) and optimal level of labor income progressivity. We develop an incomplete markets overlapping generations model that matches relevant features of the US ...
Valter Nóbrega
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Finding Minimal Solution to Generalized Min-Max Programming Problem With Addition-Min Composition
IEEE AccessIn order to describe the data transmission mechanism in the BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer file-sharing system, the addition-min fuzzy relation inequality system is introduced. At the same time, in order to distinguish the different importance of different
Xuegang Zhou, Zejian Qin
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Estimation of Optimal Commodity Tax Rates in Iran [PDF]
Faslnāmah-i Pizhūhish/Nāmah-i Iqtisādī, 2008 This study estimates optimal commodity tax rates regarding efficiency and social justice. A many- person Ramsey rule and Bergson – Samuelson social welfare function are used for estimating optimal tax rates.
Abbas Arabmazar, Ali Akbar Bajelan
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Getting to a feasible income equality.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Income inequality is known to have negative impacts on an economic system, thus has been debated for a hundred years past or more. Numerous ideas have been proposed to quantify income inequality, and the Gini coefficient is a prevalent index.
Ji-Won Park, Chae Un Kim
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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An Optimal Double Inequality between Seiffert and Geometric Means
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2011 For α,β∈(0,1/2) we prove that the double inequality G(αa+(1−α)b,αb+(1−α)a)
Yu-Ming Chu, Miao-Kun Wang, Zi-Kui Wang
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Ibn Al-Haitham Journal for Pure and Applied Sciences, 2022 This paper aims to study the quaternary classical continuous optimal control problem consisting of the quaternary nonlinear parabolic boundary value problem, the cost function, and the equality and inequality constraints on the state and the control ...
jamil Amir Al-Hawasy +1 more
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Optimal Control of Parabolic Hemivariational Inequalities
Journal of Global Optimization, 2000 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Migórski, Stanisław, Ochal, Anna
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