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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how mandatory disclosure of added sugar content on the updated U.S. Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer demand and market outcomes. Using NielsenIQ Retail Scanner Data (2015–2020) and a random coefficient discrete choice model, we estimate how added sugar labeling influences purchasing behavior in yogurt and cookie
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
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Increases in risk and in risk aversion [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1974 Diamond, Peter A., Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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Risk Aversion as Attitude towards Probabilities: A Paradox [PDF]
Theories of decision under risk that challenge expected utility theory model risk attitudes at least partly with transformation of probabilities. We explain how attributing risk aversion (partly or wholly) to attitude towards probabilities, can produce ...
Vjollca Sadiraj, James C. Cox
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Risk Aversion and Clientele Effects [PDF]
We use traded options on growth and value indices to test for clientele differences in risk preferences. Value investors appear to have exhibited a higher average level of risk aversion than growth investors for two different time periods in the late ...
Andrey D. Ukhov +2 more
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A Scalable and Resource‐Efficient Pipelined p‐Computer for Probabilistic Ising Machines
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.(a) Block diagram of the portfolio optimization problem: given M assets, the goal is to determine the optimal weights w that maximize the expected return (based on the mean historical assets return u), while minimizing the risk, quantified by the assets covariance matrix S.
Deborah Volpe +9 more
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Comparative Ross Risk Aversion in the Presence of Mean Dependent Risks [PDF]
This paper studies comparative risk aversion between risk averse agents in the presence of a background risk. Although the literature covers this question extensively, our contribution differs from most of the literature in two respects.
Jingyuan Li, Georges Dionne
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Comparative Risk Aversion: A Formal Approach with Applications to Saving Behaviors [PDF]
We consider a formal approach to comparative risk aversion and applies it to intertemporal choice models. This allows us to ask whether standard classes of utility functions, such as those inspired by Kihlstrom and Mirman [15], Selden [26], Epstein and ...
Antoine Bommier +2 more
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