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Abstract Straw returning is important for rural ecological management and sustainable agricultural development. Using farm survey data for Anhui Province, China, in 2020, we applied the double‐hurdle model to investigate the impact of agricultural machinery services and land fragmentation on farmers' straw‐returning behavior, and to explore the ...
Xin Wang, Yanping Song, Wei Huang
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin+3 more
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT IN IRAN [PDF]
Investment is one of the crucial issues in economics. In the literature, it is shown that increasing government (Public sector) investment will crowd out private investment.
Kambiz Hojabr Kiani, Maryam Khodamardi
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On the Investment Strategies in Occupational Pension Plans [PDF]
Demographic changes increase the necessity to base the pension system more and more on the second and the third pillar, namely the occupational and private pension plans; this paper deals with Target Date Funds (TDFs), which are a typical investment opportunity for occupational pension planners. TDFs are usually identified with a decreasing fraction of
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This study investigates the relationship between infrastructure investment and economic growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels, namely, the industrial, agriculture, and services sectors for Pakistan over the period from 1972 to 2015.
Muhammad Javid
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Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain
Abstract Integrating trading and logistics is an important challenge in commodity trading. Trading and logistics are strategic decisions and are integral to most commodities including grain shipping by rail, in addition to other modes (barges, ocean shipping). There are substantial risks, such as the ordering and placement of rail cars.
William W. Wilson, Jesse Klebe
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Wage arbitrage through skilled emigration: Evidence from the Pacific Islands
Abstract Skilled workers in poor countries earn wages a fraction of that of their counterparts in rich nations. Here, we estimate the opportunities for wage arbitrage from emigration of workers from the Pacific Islands into Australia and New Zealand. Our calculations, based on wages earned by graduate accountants, computer science graduates and cooks ...
Satish Chand+2 more
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On growth-optimal tax rates and the issue of wealth inequalities [PDF]
We introduce a highly stylized, yet non trivial model of the economy, with a public and private sector coupled through a wealth tax and a redistribution policy. The model can be fully solved analytically, and allows one to address the question of optimal taxation and of wealth inequalities.
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Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing [PDF]
Bank-affiliated private equity (PE) groups account for 30% of all PE investments. These affiliated groups’ market share is highest during peaks of the PE market, as is the fraction of transactions where the parent bank leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals).
Josh Lerner+4 more
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Determining the influence of belonging to a wine protected designation of origin on profitability
Abstract To guide consumers, wineries need credible attributes about the quality of their wines and its origin. In Spain, protected designations of origin (PDO) guarantee that the wine has been produced in a certain wine region in accordance with specific and officially regulated quality criteria thus providing elements of guarantee to the consumer ...
Jordi Moreno Gené+2 more
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