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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Political Competition Impacts on Government Expenditure Growth: an Evidence from OECD Countries
, 2012 Political competition is defined as the level of control held by individual political parties ascaptured by the measures of effective number of parties, number of parliamentary partiesetc.
Ozdemir Ali Riza
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Political competition and Mirrleesian income taxation: A first pass
, 2010 We study Downsian competition in a Mirrleesian model of income taxation. The competing politicians may di er in competence. If politicians engage in vote-share maximization, the less competent politician's policy proposals are attractive to the minority ...
Bierbrauer, Felix J. +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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Analysis of the quality of performance report of the local government on websites: Indonesian case
Cogent Business & Management, 2016 The study aims to assess the quality of disclosure in performance of the local administration report (LAR) in the local government which is published on the websites.
Sasono Adi +3 more
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Political Competition in Economic Perspective [PDF]
It is sometimes argued that political competition yields benefits to the citizens just as competition in economic markets yields benefits to consumers.
Pranab Bardhan, Tsung-Tao Yang
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun +2 more
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Corruption and Political Competition [PDF]
There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of special interest groups. This paper examines the nature of the interaction between the lobbying activities of special interest groups ...
Erkan Yalcin, Richard Damania
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Islands of Good Government: Explaining Successful Corruption Control in Two Spanish Cities
Politics and Governance, 2020 Between 2012 and 2018, Spanish public opinion has been shaken by a seemingly endless series of corruption scandals, to the point that corruption has become one of the main long-term concerns of the Spanish population, according to nation-wide surveys ...
Eliška Drápalová, Fabrizio Di Mascio
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