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ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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A Review of Energy Demand Models
Energy demand modeling is one of the main challenging issues for energy experts. This study attempts to identify the gaps and differences in the energy demand modeling literature.
Naser Khiabani, Solaleh Tavassoli
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ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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Antalya İlinde Serada Domates Üretiminin Kâr Etkinliği Analizi
Araştırmanın esas amacı Antalya ilinde serada domates üretimi yapan işletmelerin kâr etkinliğini belirlemektir. Araştırma kapsamında, serada domates üretimi yapan işletmelerin sosyo-ekonomik özellikleri, üretimde kullanılan girdi miktarları, domates ...
Ali Aktaş +3 more
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
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
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ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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How Is FinTech Shaping Household Portfolio Behaviour?
ABSTRACT This paper examines how FinTech adoption influences household portfolio allocation across major advanced economies. Using a flow‐of‐funds framework and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we model household demand for currency, deposits, loans, debt securities, and equity in the United States, United Kingdom, Euro Area, Japan and Australia.
Victor Murinde, Athina Petropoulou
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Measuring the Efficiency of European Union Farms under Heterogeneous Technologies
The aim of the present study was to derive the characteristics of the production process for crop farms in the European Union member states. The paper uses regional data on farms taken from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN).
Jerzy Marzec, Andrzej Pisulewski
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How Does AI Empower Corporate ESG Practices? Mechanisms Based on Information Processing Theory
ABSTRACT In the context of the latest technological revolution and industrial transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides new impetus for the development of corporate ESG practices. This study, based on data from 2630 A‐share listed companies in China from 2010 to 2022, examines the impact of AI on corporate ESG performance and its mechanisms
Qin Zhu, Shanshan Jiang, Anna Min Du
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