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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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The world distribution of household wealth [PDF]
, 2017 There has been much recent research on the world distribution of income, but also growing recognition of the importance of other contributions to well-being, including those of household wealth. Wealth is important in providing security and opportunity, particularly in poorer countries that lack full social safety nets and adequate facilities for ...
DAVIES, JAMES B +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.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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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole +6 more
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A two-group kinetic wealth model with wealth-gap drift and non-Maxwellian kernels.
PLoS ONEThis paper applies statistical mechanics to investigate wealth distribution in binary interactions between two groups of agents. Using an exchange rule with non-zero expected random variables and non-Maxwellian collision kernels, we consider the case ...
Rongmei Sun
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A Wealth Distribution Agent Model Based on a Few Universal Assumptions. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Calvelli M, Curado EMF.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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On Distributional Changes of Financial Characteristics in Cyprus: What Does the Survey of Consumer Finances Say? [PDF]
Financial Theory and Practice, 2006 This work is based on the Cyprus Survey of Consumer Finances (CySCF) and focuses on one hand on the composition of household assets in Cyprus based on the 2002 Cyprus Survey of Consumer Finances (CySCF2002) and on the other on the distributional changes ...
Alex Karagrigoriou, Ilia Vonta
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What is Fair Pay for Executives? An Information Theoretic Analysis of Wage Distributions
Entropy, 2009 The high pay packages of U.S. CEOs have raised serious concerns about what would constitute a fair pay. Since the present economic models do not adequately address this fundamental question, we propose a new theory based on statistical mechanics and ...
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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Kinetic Models of Wealth Distribution with Extreme Inequality: Numerical Study of Their Stability against Random Exchanges. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2023 Ghosh A +4 more
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