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What matters for agricultural trade? Assessing the role of trade deal provisions using machine learning

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distributionally-Weighted Cost Benefit Analysis: Welfare Economics Meets Organizational Design

open access: yes, 2014
Conventional approaches to cost benefit analysis, derived from social welfare maximization, suggest that it should ideally be adjusted to account for distributional effects.
D. Weisbach
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the relationship between growth in online shopping and multichannel food consumers

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract During the pandemic, many food retailers began offering online shopping options, primarily in reaction to rising consumer demand for such options, which was a response to supply chain disruptions and fear of contagion and food scarcity.
Mackenzie Gill, Dawn Thilmany
wiley   +1 more source

Taxes and Externalities in the Nelson-Phelps Model with Heterogenity

open access: yesGospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2020
This paper aims to answer the question of whether it is economically profitable for net taxpayers to introduce public education financed by consumption or income tax in a situation where it is impossible to finance public education with a flat-rate tax ...
Paweł Pietraszko
doaj   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Technological change, capital deepening, and agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth: Cross‐country comparison of 18 OECD countries

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Welfare Economics with Discrete Choice Models

open access: yes, 1979
Economists have been paying increasing attention to the study of situations in which consumers face a discrete rather than a continuous set of choices.
H. Rosen, K. Small
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Recent Progress on Upgrading of Furfural and Derivatives into Green Transport Fuels and Precursors via CC Coupling Reactions

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advancements in converting lignocellulosic biomass to fuel precursors. It emphasizes the role of FUR and 2‐methylfuran in aldol condensation and hydroxyalkylation–alkylation reactions. The article discusses their efficiency, potential applications, and emerging technologies that promise cleaner and more sustainable energy ...
Errol D. Saluta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrated Green Biorefinery for the Production of Anthocyanins, Fermentable Sugars, and High Pure Lignin from Miscanthus × giganteus

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
Integrated production of pigments, fermentation sugars, and pure lignin has been investigated for the creation of profitable biorefinery developments. Choline chloride‐based natural deep eutectic solvents possess unique solvent capabilities to interact with plant cell wall components to disintegrate lignin‐carbohydrate complex.
Tirath Raj, Vijay Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability, environmental economics, welfare

open access: yes, 2018
Sustainability, environmental economics, welfare is an advanced, thought-provoking and comprehensive treatise on sustainability, environmental science, environmental economics, and environmental management, visiting and revisiting historical, present and
S. Kerekes   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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