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Accounting for Substitution: Improving Estimates of GHG Reductions From Cattle‐Based Product Demand Shifts

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estimates of reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from lower demand for cattle‐based products must account for substitution effects. This study collected data through two surveys—one on ground beef and another on dairy milk—to evaluate substitution effects and potential GHG reductions.
Brandon R. McFadden   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing Political and Systemic Determinants of Financial Risk in Local Governments

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2020
Studies have shown that political variables can influence the volume of government debt and have recommended investigating the joint effects of diverse factors on the risk of local government default.
Andrés Navarro-Galera   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of the factors influencing New Zealand's trade with China, 1954 to 1984 : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Economics at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Analysis of the Factors Influencing New Zealand's Trade with China- 1954 to 1984" In 2004 China became New Zealand's fourth largest trading partner taking approximately 5% of New Zealand's exports and 8% of New Zealand's imports.
Grant-Fargie, Hamish
core  

Do Political Factors Affect the Risk of Local Government Default? Recent Evidence from Spain

open access: yes, 2017
High levels of debt, provoked by a situation of economic and financial crisis, constitute a major threat to the financial sustainability of governments in the euro zone and in many other parts of the world.
Andrés Navarro-Galera   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SOVEREIGN RISK ASSESSMENT UNDER ECONOMIC CRISIS CONDITIONS [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2011
Due to the amplification of globalization phenomenon, the risks to which international activities are exposed have become much more diversified and complex. A special status among international risks is the country risk.
GABRIELA CORINA SLUSARIUC   +2 more
doaj  

Psychological, Political, and Situational Factors Combine to Boost COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Beliefs

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 2020
Conspiracy theories (CTs) are not solely the domain of extremists and paranoids. They cut across demographic and political differences (Uscinski and Parent, 2014) and can have negative social/political consequences. For example, Imhoff and Lamberty (2020)
Joanne M. Miller
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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