Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
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Domestic resources for surgical care financing: a descriptive analysis of global health expenditure trends and illustrative case studies on fiscal mechanisms in LMICs. [PDF]
BMJ Glob HealthReddy R +8 more
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Who writes the pay slip? Do R&D subsidies merely increase researcher wages?. [PDF]
Government intervention in private R&D activity is common practice nowadays. However, its impact may not be unambiguously positive. First, companies may simply replace private R&D budgets with the public R&D grant.
Aerts, Kris
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
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Subsidize consumers or service firm? The design of a government subsidy policy for an older adult care service supply chain. [PDF]
Front Public HealthLiu L, Zhou C.
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Business R&D and the Interplay of R&D Subsidies and Market Uncertainty [PDF]
The literature suggests that public research and development (R&D) subsidies may reduce market failures affecting private R&D investment caused by incomplete appropriability of knowledge and financial constraints due capital market imperfections. Drawing
Czarnitzki, Dirk, Toole, Andrew A.
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Premium subsidy designs and crowding out of insurance demand
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is an important instrument to protect farmers against extreme weather events. Many countries provide subsidies for crop insurance products to make insurance more affordable for farmers. The Federal Crop Insurance Program in the United States and major European crop insurance programs such as in Spain, Italy, and France focus on ...
Tim Philippi
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Research on the equilibrium strategy of data value co-creation in water conservancy engineering projects based on differential game theory. [PDF]
PLoS OneAn X, Chen X, Dong G, Zhang L.
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The Incidence of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Farmland Rental Rates [PDF]
Each year U.S. farmers receive more subsidies than needy families receive through welfare assistance or post-secondary students receive through student aid grants. Yet, who benefits from agricultural subsidies is an open question.
Kirwan, Barrett E.
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Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler +3 more
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