Shivakoti, Ganesh P., Douglas L. Vermillion, Wai-fung Lam, Elinor
Ostrom, Ujjwal Pradhan and Rober Yoder (Eds.) Asian Irrigation
Shivakoti, Ganesh P., Douglas L. Vermillion, Wai-fung Lam, Elinor
Ostrom, Ujjwal Pradhan and Rober Yoder (Eds.) Asian Irrigation in
Transition: Responding to Challenges. New Delhi: Sage, 2005, 528 . . .
Bromley, Daniel W. Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and
the Meaning of Economic Institutions.
Bromley, Daniel W. Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the
Meaning of Economic Institutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 2006, 244 pp., $35
This book builds upon Bromley's . . .
Johnson, Thomas G., Daniel M. Otto, Steven C. Deller (eds.)
Community Policy Analysis Modeling.(Book review)
Johnson, Thomas G., Daniel M. Otto, Steven C. Deller (eds.)
Community Policy Analysis Modeling. Ames, IA: Blackwell Publishing,
2006, 287 pp., $99.99.
Seasoned readers who follow developments in . . .
Cohen, Daniel, Globalization and Its Enemies.(Book
review)
Cohen, Daniel, Globalization and Its Enemies. MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 2006, 192 pp.
In this immensely readable book, Daniel Cohen tackles issues such
as the ability of markets to . . .
Maler, Karl-Goran and Jeffrey R. Vincent, eds. Handbook of
Environmental Economics. Volume 3. Economywide and International
Envi
Maler, Karl-Goran and Jeffrey R. Vincent, eds. Handbook of
Environmental Economics. Volume 3. Economywide and International
Environmental Issues. Amsterdam: Elsevier, North-Holland, 2005, 556 . . .
Willingness to pay for agricultural land preservation and policy
process attributes: does the method matter?
Farmland preservation may be accomplished using a variety of policy
techniques and implemented by a range of public and private agents. (1)
The stated preference (SP) literature is clear with . . .
Aggregation of price risk over commodities: an economic index
number approach.
Index number theory is commonly used to motivate aggregation of
prices over commodities. In particular, three price indexes (Fisher,
Tornqvist, Walsh) are favored by the most popular criteria . . .
The matching problem (and inventories) in private
negotiation.
Many transactions in the food and fiber sector are conducted
through private negotiation. A buyer and a seller, or respective agents,
meet and haggle over price and possibly other features of . . .
Is exchange rate pass-through in pork meat export prices
constrained by the supply of live hogs?(Author abstract)(Report)
Broad globalization pressures and increased concentration in
downstream levels of agri-food supply chains have spurred a keen
interest in the relationship between competition, export prices, . . .
Supply response to countercyclical payments and base acre
updating under uncertainty: an experimental study.
The 2002 Farm Security and Rural Investment Act contains two
features that added complexity to farmers' planting decisions, and
may have introduced new incentives that make cropping decisions . . .
Deriving a flexible mixed demand system: the normalized quadratic
model.
A major thrust of the system-wide approach to empirical demand
analysis has been to specify models that are integrable into
well-behaved preferences. The restrictions of consumer theory help, . . .
Credence good labeling: the efficiency and distributional
implications of several policy approaches.
Increasingly, consumer goods are differentiated by
process-attributes, e.g., organically produced food, dolphin-safe tuna,
free-range poultry, genetically modified organism (GMO)-free . . .
Measuring heterogeneous preferences for cattle traits among
cattle-keeping households in East Africa.(Author
abstract)(Report)
In spite of the crucial role livestock plays in the economies of
many sub-Saharan African countries, livestock productivity remains
relatively low in the region. Several studies have shown that . . .
Risk, wealth, and sectoral choice in rural credit
markets.
In developing countries, informal and formal credit sectors coexist
in spite of large interest rate differentials. This coexistence is
troubling given the recent wave of financial liberalization . . .
Testing household-specific explanations for the inverse
productivity relationship.
The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size
has puzzled economists for a long time. (1) Chayanov (1926) first
documented that small farms produced more output per unit of land . . .
Is risk aversion really correlated with wealth? How estimated
probabilities introduce spurious correlation.
Economists attribute many common behaviors to risk aversion. These
precautious behaviors often appear to be rational, but sometimes seem
quite pernicious. Risk aversion, for example, is frequently . . .
Collective marketing arrangements for geographically
differentiated agricultural products: welfare impacts and policy
implicatio
We explore the microeconomic foundations and welfare implications
of various mechanisms designed to encourage agricultural producers to
geographically differentiate and collectively market their . . .
Measuring the effects of generic dairy advertising in a
multi-market equilibrium.
Numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of producer-funded
generic promotion for milk and for cheese (among others, Blisard et al.
1999; Kaiser 1997, 1999; Kaiser and Chung 2002; Liu and . . .
Willingness to pay versus expected consumption value in Vickrey
auctions for new experience goods.
Very often consumers face a choice between a well-known incumbent
brand and a new brand for which they are uncertain about the quality.
Learning the quality of the new brand can affect future . . .
Gender-based harvesting in wildlife disease management.
The spread of wildlife diseases is a major threat to agricultural
livestock, human health, natural resource-based industries, and
biodiversity conservation (Lanfranchi et al. 2003). (1) Yet . . .
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