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Political views on a further deregulation of the European road haulage market
Journal of Shipping and Trade, 2020 Within the broad ongoing review of the legislation of the European road haulage market the European Commission presented in May 2017 several proposals to clarify the regulation of the market, especially market access, driving and rest periods, and the ...
Stephan Keuchel +2 more
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Drivers of Precision Agriculture Adoption in Italian Viticulture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the main drivers influencing the adoption of two types of precision farming technologies in the viticultural sector: Decision Support Systems (DSSs) and Variable Rate Technologies (VRTs). We apply a partial proportional odds model and find that socio‐demographic characteristics are not significant determinants of adoption ...
Olimpia Fontana +3 more
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Changing Youth Dynamics in Lusaka’s Informal Economy in the Context of Economic Liberalization
African Studies Quarterly, 2010 The paper examines the consequences of changes in economic regime on the self-employed in Lusaka and attendant political dynamics. The focus is on urban vendors, particularly youth.
Karen Tranberg Hansen
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Home Truths: Promises and Challenges in Linking Mortgages and Political Influence
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016 What can “big data” tell us about the dynamics shaping the regulation of and activities in housing and mortgage markets? This paper describes a detailed database of the lobbying activities, campaign contributions, political connections, and mortgage ...
Deniz Igan
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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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IMF Surveillance and Financial Markets - A Political Economy Analysis [PDF]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member
Julien Reynaud, Marcel Fratzscher
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, 2012 This chapter deals with firms’ relationships in particular with political actors when expanding in emerging markets. Our main purpose is to illustrate the importance of including such relationships when describing how firms develop insidership in ...
Cecilia Pahlberg +7 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsForeign direct investment (FDI) inflows, good governance, and oil rents have the potential to accelerate stock market trade (SMT) in the oil-dependent economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Tariq Qaysi, Haider Mahmood
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Continental shifts: capitalism, communications and change in Europe
Comunicação e Sociedade, 2012 This article puts forward the fundamental lines of thought on the Political Economy of Communications and the Media, since the development of capitalism up to the present day.
Graham Murdock
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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
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