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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

One Health Economics 2.0 - commentary. [PDF]

Glob Bioeth
Lederman Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Non-Welfarist Optimal Taxation and Behavioral Public Economics [PDF]

Research in behavioral economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to intervene,
Jukka Pirttilä, Matti Tuomala, Ravi Kanbur   +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Political economics and normative analysis [PDF]

The approaches and opinions of economists often dominate public policy discussion. Economists have gained this privileged position partly (or perhaps mainly) because of the obvious relevance of their subject matter, but also because of the unified ...
Colin Jennings, Iain McLean
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oaxaca-Blinder meets Kitagawa: What is the link? [PDF]

PLoS One
Oaxaca RL, Sierminska E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fiscal decentralization, public spending, and economic growth in China [PDF]

The authors of this report use data on China to demonstrate how the allocation of fiscal revenue and expenditures between central and local governments has affected economic growth since reforms that began in the late 1970s.
Heng-fu Zou, Tao Zhang
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Healthcare systems and health economics in GCC countries: informing decision-makers from the perspective of the Gulf health economics association. [PDF]

Front Public Health
AlRuthia Y, Aldallal S, Al-Abdulkarim HA, Al-Jedai A, Almudaiheem H, Hamad A, Elmusharaf K, Saadi M, Al Awar H, Al Sabbah H, Alghnam S, Al Ghamdi M, Monshi SS, AlAgil N, Al Khalifa ME, Abdulkarim Q, Abdulkarim S, Jawad H, Al-Sabahi S, Al Kindi A, Wani S, Alibrahim A.   +21 more
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A macroeconomic framework for quantifying growth and poverty reduction strategies in Niger [PDF]

The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Agénor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger. As in the original model, linkages between foreign aid, public investment (disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health ...
Bayraktar, Nihal, Pinto Moreira, Emmanuel   +1 more
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