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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In May 2020, China abruptly suspended imports from several major Australian beef processors, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This trade measure disrupted one of the largest beef export relationships in the world almost overnight.
K. Aleks Schaefer, Youngjune Kim
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The Interaction of Entrepreneurship and Institutions [PDF]
Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of insti-tutions in channeling entrepreneurial supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities.
Sanandaji, Tino, Henrekson, Magnus
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Trust as a Category of Political Analysis
Управленческое консультирование, 2018 The article is based on an interdisciplinary analysis of one of the most important categories of social science knowledge - trust. Paying tribute to the confidence in the interpretation of psychological and sociological paradigm, the author focused on ...
Pavel Nikolaevich Rybchak
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Measuring Institutions: Indicators of Political and Economic Institutions in Namibia: 1884 - 2008 [PDF]
This paper presents a database on institutional measures for Namibia for the period 1884 to 2008. Using the techniques of principal components and factor analysis in aggregating these indicators, the study does two things.
B.P. Zaaruka, J.W. Fedderke
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Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2000 The objective of this article is to compare the performance of the political systems in Brazil and Spain. In both countries the redemocratization process occurred by way of negotiation with the leaders of the out-going authoritarian regimes.
Santos Fabiano
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Vertical Price Transmission in Food Markets: New Evidence From Meta‐Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing body of empirical research has examined price dynamics along the food supply chain, yet findings remain heterogeneous and often conflicting. This study conducts a meta‐analysis of 140 studies, totaling 652 observations, to examine (1) the reported presence of asymmetric price transmission and (2) the reported direction of price ...
Sushan K C +2 more
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Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion? [PDF]
We investigate empirically whether political institutions or culture and religion underlie gender inequality in education. The dataset contains up to 157 countries over the 1991-2006 period.
Arusha Cooray, Niklas Potrafke
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Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez +3 more
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Veto Players and Policy Trade-Offs- An Intertemporal Approach to Study the Effects of Political Institutions on Policy [PDF]
The capacity to sustain policies over time and the capacity to adjust policies in the face of changing circumstances are two desirable properties of policymaking systems.
Ernesto Stein +2 more
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