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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Marketing in the service sector

open access: yesECONOMIC Series of the Bulletin of the L.N. Gumilyov ENU, 2019
openaire   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF THE SERVICE SECTOR [PDF]

open access: possibleInternational Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 2006
This composite paper focuses on the Service Sector and its growing importance. Some of the characterizations made of the Service Sector using a simple analysis of data bases derived elsewhere are indicated. Discussion of the distinction between the role of intellectual property in the Goods Sector and the Service Sector is made.
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The service sector revolution: The automation of services

Long Range Planning, 1983
This paper describes the service sector revolution in the United States and covers the automation of 10 U.S. service industries. It discusses the implications of the simultaneous automation of goods and services and suggests action required to smooth the transition for the worker as the United States becomes an automated society.
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The Services Sector

2018
For several decades the world has been witnessing a major structural change in economies with the services sector expanding rapidly as a proportion of both GDP and employment. This change can be observed in virtually all countries, both developed and developing, although the change is particularly marked for developed countries.
Mozammel Huq, Michael Tribe
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The Service Sector

2013
For approximately 200 years since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, wealth generation and economic output in Western nations were dominated by the manufacturing industry. However in less than three decades after the end of World War II, manufacturing as a wealth generator had been overtaken by service sector organisations.
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Leading Indicators for the Service Sector

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1989
Since the service sector currently accounts for a large and growing share of U.S. economic activity, we have undertaken to develop indicators that throw light on its current status and future prospects. A composite coincident index of aggregate economic activity in the service sector is constructed, and a growth-cycle chronology is identified based on ...
Layton, Allan P., Moore, Geoffrey H.
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