Behavioral incentives, equilibrium endemic disease, and health
management policy for farmed animals.(Author abstract)(Report)
Infectious animal diseases that are endemic, or common, in a region
generate a variety of significant adverse economic consequences for that
region. Most directly, mortality, morbidity, barrenness, . . .
An integrated epidemiological-economic analysis of foot and mouth
disease: applications to the Southern Cone of South America.
Animal disease outbreaks present significant costs to affected
countries, especially when the livestock sector is large and
substantially integrated into international export markets. For . . .
Modeling farm households' price responses in the presence of
transaction costs and heterogeneity in labor markets.
The agricultural development literature has long recognized that
rural markets are often underdeveloped or absent. These market
imperfections create transaction costs and, if transaction costs . . .
Structural estimation of rank-order tournament games with private
information.
In most sporting events, prizes are awarded not on basis of
absolute performance but based on relative performance, or tournaments.
Besides sporting events, tournaments are also frequently used in . . .
Deregulation as (welfare reducing) trade reform: the case of the
Australian Wheat Board.
State trading enterprises (STEs) in the agriculture sector have two
characteristics that distinguish them from commercial, profit-maximizing
firms. First, they are given by government certain . . .
Cash marketing styles and performance persistence.
One decision that has long troubled crop producers is when to sell
their commodities. Producers can choose to sell based on either a
mechanical or an active marketing style. With a mechanical . . .
Style and performance of agricultural market advisory
services.
Marketing decisions are an important part of farm business
management. Farmers are interested in enhancing farm income and reducing
income variability when marketing crops. There are many tools to . . .
Valuing agricultural insurance.
Agricultural insurance, in its various guises, has a spotty history
in the United States. For the most part, multiple-peril insurance
products are not commercially viable without government . . .
Private crop insurers and the reinsurance fund allocation
decision.
A unique aspect of the federal crop insurance program since passage
of the Federal Crop Insurance Act of 1980 has been the role of private
insurance companies in program delivery and risk sharing . . .
Pricing-to-market: price discrimination or product
differentiation?
Movements in exchange rates can have an important influence on an
imperfectly competitive exporter's pricing behavior. Exchange rates
create a wedge between the price set by the exporter and the . . .
Measuring the impact of meat packing and processing facilities in
nonmetropolitan counties: a difference-in-differences approach
Meat packing and processing facilities have a prominent, yet
controversial presence in rural counties of the South and the Midwest.
On the one hand, attracting agricultural processing facilities is . . .
Andrews Donald and James Stock, eds. Identification and Inference
for Econometric Models: Essays in Honor of Thomas Rothenberg.(
Andrews Donald and James Stock, eds. Identification and Inference
for Econometric Models: Essays in Honor of Thomas Rothenberg. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005, 573 pp., $75.00.
This . . .
Easterlin, Richard A. The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on
Economics, Economic History, and Demography.(Book review)
Easterlin, Richard A. The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on
Economics, Economic History, and Demography, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2004, 285 pp., $75.
The argument Professor . . .
Cox, Andrew. Win-Win? The Paradox of Value and Interests in
Business Relationships.(Book review)
Cox, Andrew. Win-Win? The Paradox of Value and Interests in
Business Relationships. Earlsgate Press (www. earlsgatepress.com), 2004,
296 pp.
Managers often enter into business relationships that . . .
P. Aghion and A. Banerjee. Volatility and Growth: The Clarendon
Lectures in Economics.(Phillipe Aghion,Abhijit Banerjee )(Book
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P. Aghion and A. Banerjee. Volatility and Growth: The Clarendon
Lectures in Economics. Oxford University Press, 2005, Oxford, UK. ISBN
0-19-924861-3, Price $35.00.
In February of 1999, Philippe . . .
Nelson, Douglas R., and Hylke Vandenbussche. The WTO and
Anti-Dumping.(Book review)
Nelson, Douglas R., and Hylke Vandenbussche. The WTO and
Anti-Dumping, volume I. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005,1,248 pp.,
$500.00 hardback (for both volumes I and II).
Volume I of this . . .
Modeling starting point bias as unobserved heterogeneity in
contingent valuation surveys: an application to air pollution.(Autho
Contingent valuation (CV) studies are increasingly used to evaluate
nonmarket goods and services, environmental goods or health care
programs, and thus affect decision making and policy . . .
Pareto optimal trade in an uncertain world: GMOs and the
precautionary principle.(Genetically modified organisms)
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and applications of the
Precautionary Principle (PP) to GMOs have recently been the focus of
several agricultural trade disputes. Acceptance of GMOs, as well . . .
Is there a viable market for area-based crop insurance?(U.S.
Federal Crop Insurance Program, provision of Multiple Peril Crop
I
From its inception in 1938 the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program
(FCIP) has provided Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) policies that
protect against individual farm yield losses. Since the mid . . .
Wildlife damage and agriculture: a dynamic analysis of
compensation schemes.
The two principal threats to African wildlife are agricultural
expansion and hunting. Increasing human populations are associated with
greater conversion and fragmentation of wild habitats, and . . .
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