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Resilience of Small Beef Packers and the USDA Meat Supply Chain Initiative
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We focus on the plant‐size resilience relationship among small beef packers during COVID‐19. Defining resilience as the ability to maintain or increase slaughter and non‐resilience as otherwise, we use survey and secondary data to estimate a logit model where resilience is a function of a plant's capacity and age in addition to labor condition
Sunil P. Dhoubhadel +2 more
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Subsidizing Public Inputs [PDF]
Investment in research and development may (with some probability) lead to reductions in a firm’s production cost. If the production-cost savings associated with successful research and development is freely disseminated to other firms as soon as it is ...
Mohamed Shehata +2 more
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Targeting Subsidies: Employers Versus Individuals [PDF]
, 2008 Provides an overview of the debate over whether subsidies to employers or to individuals would increase health coverage more efficiently. Argues for targeting low-income individuals but with reforms to limit financial exposure to a percentage of ...
John Holahan, Linda J. Blumberg
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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Ingeniare: Revista Chilena de Ingeniería, 2011 El propósito del presente trabajo es evaluar el efecto redistributivo de un sistema de tarifas sociales del agua potable, comparado con el actual modelo de subsidios estatales directos a la población de menores ingresos.
Maritza Acevedo Antimil +3 more
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Optimal Taxation of Risky Human Capital [PDF]
In a model with ex-ante homogenous households, earnings risk and a general earnings function, we derive the optimal linear labor tax rate and optimal linear education subsidies.
Bas Jacobs, Dirk Schindler, Hongyan Yang
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
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Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Pension System [PDF]
This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low ...
Firouz Gahvari +2 more
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This study presents new, nearly EU wide estimates of the level of subsidies to company cars. In addition, it also provides some preliminary rough illustrations of the possible effects of such subsidies on economic welfare and environment and discusses ...
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Liquidity constraints and credit subsidies in auctions [PDF]
, 2004 I consider an auction with participants that differ in valuation and access to liquid assets. Assuming credit is costly (e.g. due to moral hazard considerations) different auction rules establish different ways of screening valuation-liquidity pairs. The
Quintero Jaramillo, Jose E.
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