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Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain
Agribusiness, EarlyView.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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Privatization and its aftermath: Are we facing a new displacement force?
Journal of Urban Management, 2022 The privatization of once publicly-funded affordable housing is the primary tool for preserving and maintaining affordable housing. This process, however, is quietly creating urban migration patterns that are altering the demographic profile of cities ...
Sharon Yavo-Ayalon
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Alnwick Castle Antiquities: A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, Chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle . Printed for private distribution. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1880. 11 + 210 p., 43 pl. 4°. [PDF]
, 1883 Henry W. Haynes
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Determining the influence of belonging to a wine protected designation of origin on profitability
Agribusiness, EarlyView.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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Impacts of Restructurings on Manufacturing Productive Efficiency: Evidence from China [PDF]
This paper studies the effects of privatization and non-ownership-change reforms on firms’ productivity in China. As one of the most prominent empirical challenges in China privatization studies, endogeneity problems are addressed with a first-difference
Gao, Song
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa +1 more
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Theory, Methodology, Practice, 2011 The theory of coupon privatization was developed by Milton Friedman in the 1970s as a quicker alternative to stock privatization. According to this theory, several transformed Central and Easter European countries have provided their state ...
László Török
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Privatization and Efficiency: from Principals and Agents to Political Economy [PDF]
We survey the theoretical literature on privatization and efficiency by tracing its evolution from the applications of agency theory to recent contributions in the field of political economy. The first ones extend the theory of regulation with incomplete
Alberto Cavaliere
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