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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Said: Politician and Diplomat
Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2012 The article is devoted to Sultan Qaboos bin Said, an experienced politician and diplomat. The author emphasizes this enlightened monarch's contribution to the transformation of Oman into a dynamically developing country in the Middle East.
- Al-Baloushi Abdalla Ahmed
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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Peter Fraser: Master Politician [Book Review]
, 1998 Review of:Peter Fraser: Master Politician.
Sheppard, Simon, Simon Sheppard
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The Cost of a Nutritious Diet in Cafeterias: Evidence From US Military Dining Facilities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Providing nutritious meals in institutional settings with financial constraints, such as military dining facilities, is challenging. The US Department of War (DoW) and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) collaborated to modernize the Basic Daily Food Allowance (BDFA) using an optimization model that incorporates service members' consumption ...
Linlin Fan +8 more
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The historical and philosophical aspect of formation of a politician’s image
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2014 The article analyzes the concept of “politician image” in the historical and philosophical context. Necessity of forming the image of the sovereign, ruler arises with the appearance of a power institution and it is still increasing at the moment.
A A Sazonova, M V Moiseenko
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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