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The Herfindahl neutral point: A firm‐level threshold for managing market concentration with evidence from US hog packing

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
wiley   +1 more source

Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

Policing through Third Parties: Increasing Coercion or Improving Legitimacy?

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose-Changing environments demand that police improve their effectiveness in reducing crime, while maintaining community confidence, support and legitimacy.
Janet Ransley, Ransley, J
core   +1 more source

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Newness as a winning formula for new political Parties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Previous studies on new political parties have assumed that they either represent new or ignored cleavages or issues, or emerge in order to cleanse an ideology deficiently represented by an existing party.
Sikk, A.
core  

Legal Protection for Third Parties Acquiring Rights in the Management of State Receivables

open access: yesMedia Iuris
The government has made various efforts to maximize state revenue, one of which is through issuing Government Regulation No. 28 of 2022 regarding the Management of State Receivables by the State Receivables Committee (Government Regulation 28/2022 ...
Petrus de Rozari, Elfrida Ratnawati
doaj   +1 more source

Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

B/ordering and healthcare access for migrants with precarious status: The role of healthcare workers in counteracting restrictive policies

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

18. Privity and third parties

open access: yes, 2017
This chapter examines how English law, through a doctrine known as privity of contract, deals with the problem posed by contracts whose performance involves third parties.
TT Arvind
core   +1 more source

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