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Towards the estimation of the economic value of the outputs of Scottish Higher Education Institutions [PDF]

, 2005
This report is the outcome of a preliminary scoping study undertaken for the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council and Universities Scotland Knowledge Transfer Taskforce during the three month period April - June 2005.
Kelly, Ursula, McLellan, Donald, McNicoll, Iain   +2 more
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich, Tim Ölkers, Vanessa Bonke, Oliver Musshoff   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Renewable Electric Energy Integration: Quantifying the Value of Design of Markets for International Transmission Capacity [PDF]

Integrating large quantities of supply-driven renewable electricity generation remains a political and operational challenge. One of the main obstacles in Europe to installing at least 200 GWs of power from variable renewable sources is how to deal with ...
Benjamin Hobbs, Chris Dent, Christian Nabe, Christian von Hirschhausen, Christoph Weber, Francisco Echavarren, Friedrich Kunz, Georgios Papaefthymiou, Hannes Weigt, Janusz Bialek, Julian Barquin, Karsten Neuhoff, Rodney Boyd, Thilo Grau   +13 more
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Transfer Pricing Profit Split Methods : A Practical Solution?

, 2009
The purpose of this master’s thesis is to explain and analyze whether today’s existing regulations provide sufficient guidance on how to apply the Profit Split Method (PSM) in practice. Since the enterprises’ profits arising from intra-group transactions increases, the tax base for any government also becomes larger and more important.
openaire   +1 more source