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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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The Welfare Economics of Debt Service [PDF]

This paper analyzes some of the implications of the dual transfer a debtor nation must undertake to service foreign debt: (a) an internal transfer from the private sector to the public sector; and (b) an external transfer from the domestic economy to ...
Dani Rodrik
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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional poverty in the Colombian pacific: identification, measurement and recent trends

Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research
The Pacific is the region of Colombia with the greatest economic lag and the lowest living standards of its population. The objective of this study is to investigate poverty in the Colombian Pacific, taking as a reference the multidimensional approach ...
Roberto Mauricio Sánchez-Torres
doaj   +1 more source

National accounts: barometer, telescope and compass for the national economy [PDF]

This note briefly describes the merits and limitations of the national accounts, e.g. GDP per capita is a simple measure of material welfare, but not a comprehensive measure of welfare.GDP; welfare; measurement in economics; macro-economic statistics ...
Bos, Frits
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

THE MARGINAL UTILITY POWER OF SHARING AND INCREASING SOCIAL MARGINAL UTILITY

Sakarya Üniversitesi İktisat Dergisi, 2015
The concept of utility is well known in microeconomic theory with the decreasing marginal utility. On the contrary of the neo-classical approach of methodological individualism, we argue that a utility maximizing oriented self-interest behavior does not ...
Abdullah Keskın, Abdulkadir Gulsen
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The Measurement of Social Welfare [PDF]

This paper derives a basic formula for the measure of social welfare, a second order approximation to the difference of the value of the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function between the socially optimal resource allocation and the one in the present
Atsushi Tsuneki
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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun, John Beghin, Fernando Maximiliano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance? [PDF]

Sozialstaat, Institutionalismus, Wirtschaftswachstum, Beschäftigungseffekt, Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung, Kündigungsschutz, Tarifpolitik, Lohnstruktur, OECD-Staaten, Welfare state, Institutional economics, Economic growth, Employment effect, Labour ...
Ronald Schettkat
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