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Tripartite evolutionary game and simulation analysis of brand enhancement for geographical indications agri-food China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Weixia Yang, Congli Xie, Lindong Ma
Purpose The construction of geographical indications agri-food (GIAF) brands play an important role in rural revitalization in China, this study aims to explore how to jointly promote brand building among multiple parties. Design/methodology/approach A tripartite game model of the producers, sales operating enterprises, and local governments is constructed to analyze the strategy choice of the parties
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Farmers' willingness to pay for smart farming technologies: evidence from a smart drip irrigation technology in North China China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Hui Tao, Hang Xiong, Liangzhi You, Fan Li
Purpose Smart farming technologies (SFTs) can increase yields and reduce the environmental impacts of farming by improving the efficient use of inputs. This paper is to estimate farmers' preference and willingness to pay (WTP) for a well-defined SFT, smart drip irrigation (SDI) technology. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) among 1,300 maize farmers
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Loss of organic cattle to the conventional value chains in Ireland: what are the economic and environmental impacts? China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Yan Jin
Purpose This paper aims to quantify the loss (or leakage) of organic cattle to conventional value chains in Ireland and assess its economic and environmental impacts. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a Bio-economy Input-Output (BIO) model, a quantitative economic model representing the interdependencies between different sectors of the economy, to assess the economic and environmental impacts
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How does platform certification affect the marketing performance of sellers in food e-commerce? Interaction with reputation mechanisms China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Hu Xue, Shanshan Jin, Qianrong Wu, Xianhui Geng
Purpose Platform certification constitutes an effective mechanism for managing the lemon problem concerning food e-commerce. This work aims to evaluate the market effect of platform certification and analyzes its correction mechanism for lemon problem combined with reputation mechanism. Design/methodology/approach Utilizing the Gold Seller certification of Taobao.com to serve as an illustration, the
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Do geographical indications of agricultural products promote county-level economic growth? China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Hongkai Qie, Yudie Chao, Hui Chen, Fan Zhang
Purpose Intellectual property right constitutes play a forceful role to promote economic growth and create a fortune. However, it is not yet clear to what extent the agricultural intellectual property rights represented by geographical indications of agricultural products (AGIs) can affect the development of regional economy. The purpose of this paper is to analyze this impact and its mechanism as
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Quantifying the impact of Russia–Ukraine crisis on food security and trade pattern: evidence from a structural general equilibrium trade model China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Fan Feng, Ningyuan Jia, Faqin Lin
Purpose Considering the importance of Russia and Ukraine in agriculture, the authors quantify the potential impact of the Russia–Ukraine conflict on food output, trade, prices and food security for the world. Design/methodology/approach The authors mainly use the quantitative and structural multi-country and multi-sector general equilibrium trade model to analyze the potential impacts of the conflict
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Missing data estimates related to soybean production in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, from 1990 to 2018 China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 João Gabriel Ribeiro, Sônia Maria de Stefano Piedade
Purpose The state of Mato Grosso represents the largest producer and exporter of soybeans in Brazil; given this importance, it was aimed to propose to use the univariate imputation tool for time series, through applications of splines interpolations, in 46 of its municipalities that had missing data in the variables soybean production in thousand tons, production value and soy derivatives in R$ thousand
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Digital technology in agriculture: a review of issues, applications and methodologies China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Xiaoxue Du, Xuejian Wang, Patrick Hatzenbuehler
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show the impact of digital agriculture on food supply chain, research trend, emphasis and implications for future research. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyzes how the digital technology reshapes the production, assembly, transaction, retail and logistics. Impact from each main technological progress is discussed. Findings First, digital agriculture
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A systematic review of rural resilience China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Yuheng Li
Purpose Rural resilience plays an important role in maintaining rural stability and people's living standards in the face of risks and unexpected challenges. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the concept and mechanism of rural resilience and discuss how rural resilience is measured and to propose ways to improve rural resilience. Design/methodology/approach Literature review of
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A meta-analysis of the impact of agricultural extension services China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Kolawole Ogundari
PurposeThis study aims to address two research questions. First, do the agricultural extension services have an impact on the potential outcomes considered in the primary studies, and to what extent? Second, how sensitive is the reported impact to the study-specific characteristics in the primary studies?Design/methodology/approachThe paper synthesizes 45 studies that assessed the causal impact of
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Pre- and post-production water treatment in the food processing industry: managerial perceptions of environmental pressure increase adoption of voluntary environmental management China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Ting Meng,Qijun Jiang,Wojciech J. Florkowski
Purpose This paper examines pre- and post-production water treatment practices among food processors and investigates factors, especially managerial perceptions of environmental pressure that encourage or preclude either process. Design/methodology/approach To consider potential spillover effects across two water-treatment practices, the bivariate probit model based on random utility theory is used
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How large is the farm income loss due to climate change? Evidence from India China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Rajesh Kalli,Pradyot Ranjan Jena
PurposeClimate change is the most concerned issue in the global economy; increase in climate variability and uncertain climate events have caused distress in agriculture sector. The study estimates economic effect of climate change on agriculture income for the Indian state of Karnataka. The study reports the difference of result from past studies, where estimates from present study indicate higher
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How agricultural economists are using big data: a review China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Liang Lu,Guang Tian,Patrick Hatzenbuehler
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the main ways in which large amounts of information have been integrated to provide new measures of food consumption and agricultural production, and new methods for gathering and analyzing internet-based data. Design/methodology/approach This study reviews some of the recent developments and applications of big data, which is becoming increasingly popular
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Economic analysis of the environmental sustainability of agriculture: recent studies using quasi-experimental methods China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Wei Zhang
PurposeThe purpose of this review article is to demonstrate how the quasi-experimental approach has been used to study environmental and natural resource issues related to agricultural production.Design/methodology/approachThis review article first provides a short introduction to the quasi-experimental approach using the potential outcomes framework and then uses studies on the environmental sustainability
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The effect of grassland transfer on herders' livestock production and grazing intensity in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Xiaolong Feng,Jianjun Tang,Huanguang Qiu
Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the impact mechanism of grassland transfer on herders' production behaviour in pastoral areas. The impact of grassland transfer on herders' livestock production and grazing intensity is quantified.Design/methodology/approach Using the survey data collected for 356 herder households from Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China, quantile regression is employed
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Are there dynamic productivity gains from agricultural trade? China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Wanki Moon
PurposeThe primary purpose of this paper is to take an in-depth look at the question of whether liberalizing trade in agriculture can generate dynamic productivity gains comparable to those in the manufacturing sector.Design/methodology/approachIn contrast to the manufacturing sector that has generated firm/plant-level trade data, there is a lack of farm-level trade data that are needed for empirical
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The influence of clan social capital on collective biogas investment China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Anbang Wang,Ke He,Junbiao Zhang
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of clan social capital on the willingness to pay (WTP) and WTP value for collective biogas investment.Design/methodology/approachUsing the Heckman two-stage model and a dataset of 1,265 representative observations from three provinces in Central China collected in 2019, this paper utilizes the contingent valuation method to estimate households'
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Does firm's philanthropy lead to more missions: theory and evidence China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Ling-Yun He,Hongzhen Zhang
PurposeInspired by the comparison of charity donations among candidates in rural elections, the authors linked the non-profit motives of charity to corporate pollution emissions. And on this basis, the authors aim to provide theoretical and empirical explanations for the relationship between corporate philanthropy and pollution. The authors find that the desire to pursue more pollution emissions stimulates
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Does cooperative membership impact the yield and efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from potato farmers in Mongolia China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Samuel Ahado,Jiří Hejkrlík,Anudari Enkhtur,Tserendavaa Tseren,Tomáš Ratinger
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on potato production and technical efficiency.Design/methodology/approachA combination of propensity score matching technique and sample selection stochastic frontier framework that addresses potential selection bias due to observable and unobservable attributes is used to estimate the effect of participation
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Does the risk aversion of crude oil market investors have directional predictability for the precious metal and agricultural markets? China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Yue-Jun Zhang,Xu Pan
PurposeRisk aversion is considered as an important factor in predicting asset prices. Many studies have proved that there exists important price information spillover among crude oil, precious metals and agricultural markets. Then there naturally follows the question: Is the risk aversion of investors in crude oil market predictable for the returns of precious metals and agricultural products? The
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Price decline, land rental markets and grain production in the North China Plain China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Qian Wang,Fan Li,Jin Yu,Luuk Fleskens,Coen J. Ritsema
PurposeThis study examines the heterogeneous correlations between rural farmers' land renting behavior and their grain production when they experienced a significant price decline.Design/methodology/approachWe used well-timed panel data obtained from a two-round survey held in 2013 and 2017 among 621 households in the North China Plain. The empirical analyses were conducted by using the pooled ordinary
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A snapshot of food supply chain in Wuhan under the COVID-19 pandemic China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Shi Min, Xiaoheng Zhang, Gucheng Li
Purpose - The objective is to have a better understanding of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food supply chain in Wuhan. Design/methodology/approach - Through a simplified flow, the authors qualitatively analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food supply chain. Data was gathered through a telephone survey of food suppliers in Wuhan. Findings - The prevention measures of the COVID-19
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How to promote rural revitalization via introducing skilled labor, deepening land reform and facilitating investment? China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Jun Han
Purpose - This article revealed the difficulties that lie ahead of implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Design/methodology/approach - This article performed a systematic analysis of the difficulties ahead of implementation of the rural revitalization strategy on the basis of three factors, namely, people, land and money. Findings - This article concluded that it is necessary to revitalize
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How does farmers' field schooling impact eco-efficiency? Empirical evidence from paddy farmers in Bangladesh China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Md. Sariful Islam, Sabiha Ferdousy, Sonia Afrin, Md. Nasif Ahsan, Mohammed Ziaul Haider, Debasish Kumar Das
Recent studies suggest extensive use of environmental resources in agrofarming degrades ecosystem significantly. In this backdrop, this study aims at assessing ecoefficiency of paddy farming. Because ecoefficiency links up between economic performances and environmental resources supporting the provision of goods and services for the society, this study further investigates the effectiveness of attending
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Rural finance, scale management and rural industrial integration China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2020-01-06 Xiujuan Tian, Manhua Wu, Lin Ma, Ning Wang
The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of rural finance on industrial integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries.,Using household-level data collected by Third National Agricultural Census and the provincial-level data collected from Wind database, the authors estimated the impacts of rural finance on rural industrial integration using Logit and Probit
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Guest editorial of the special section on new structural economics and its applications in agricultural development China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Justin Yifu Lin, Yong Wang
Purpose – The United Nations adopted 17 goals for sustainable development, which has been known as the 17 SDGs. Knowing how to achieve these goals will be very important for many countries. The first of the 17 is no poverty. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how to realize no poverty in UN’s SDGs by focusing on structural changes based on the New Structural Economics. Design/methodology/approach
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Structural change and poverty elimination China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Justin Yifu Lin
Purpose The United Nations adopted 17 goals for sustainable development, which has been known as the 17 SDGs. Knowing how to achieve these goals will be very important for many countries. The first of the 17 is no poverty. The purpose of this paper is to analyze how to realize no poverty in UN’s SDGs by focusing on structural changes based on the New Structural Economics. Design/methodology/approach
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A model of industrialization and rural income distribution China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Yong Wang
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the processes of (de)industrialization and rural income distribution interact with each other and their implications for economic growth and welfare.,This paper takes a dynamic general-equilibrium and theoretical approach.,The author develops a dynamic general-equilibrium model to analytically characterize how (de) industrialization interacts with rural income
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Double trigger agricultural insurance products with weather index and yield index China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2019-05-07 Yugu Xiao, Jing Yao
Agricultural weather index insurance (WII) has been introduced in pilot or experimental form in many countries. However, the effective demand for WII is often limited by the impact of the basis risk. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new type of double trigger product, named “supplement” type, to reduce basis risk and improve the performance of the standalone WII.,Two measures of performance
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Market power and returns to scale in farm-value share determination China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2019-02-04 Ling Ma, Alexander Nuetah, Xiuqing Wang
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of market power and returns to scale in the determination of farm-value share.,This paper utilizes the equilibrium displacement model to investigate the role of market power and returns to scale in the determination of farm-value share. Contrary to the current literature, the paper incorporates oligopoly power, oligopsony power and non-constant return
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Spatial analysis of dairy yields response to intensive farming in New Zealand China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2019-02-04 Wei Yang, Basil Sharp
As the world’s largest dairy exporter, New Zealand dairy industry seeks to keep the international competitiveness by increasing productivity and the use of intensive inputs. These, however, have not only brought economic growth but also caused nutrient pollution. To optimize the use of inputs and reduce the pollution, it is important to understand how productive the dairy industry is in consideration
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Parallel mediation model of social capital, learning and the adoption of best crop management practices China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2018-11-05 Muhammad Usman, Malik Imran Ahmad
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social capital on the adoption of best crop management practices and testified the mediatory role of learning in the relationship between social capital and the adoption of best crop management practices. Then the authors examined the role of education as the moderator of the interrelations between social capital, learning and the adoption of crop
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Smallholder preferences and willingness-to-pay measures for microcredit China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-03 Zhao Ding, Awudu Abdulai
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine smallholders’ preferences and willingness to pay for microcredit products with varying attribute combinations, in order to contribute to the debate on the optimal design of rural microcredit. Design/methodology/approach Data used in this study are based on a discrete choice experiment from 552 randomly selected respondents. Mixed logit and latent class
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Dynamic analysis of the livestock inventory in Inner Mongolia China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2018-09-03 Wei Ge, Henry Kinnucan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test hypotheses about the effects of economic and weather factors on the inventories of cattle, sheep and goats in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR). Design/methodology/approach An equilibrium displacement model of livestock products is combined with an inventory relation proposed by Rucker et al. (1984) to deduce hypothesis about the effects of expected
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Agricultural Insurance: Theory, Empirical Research and Experience – Based on Farmers Household Data China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2018-02-05 Ruihua Yang
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Estimation of market equilibrium values for apple attributes China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2018-02-05 Jong Woo Choi, Chengyan Yue, James Luby, Shuoli Zhao, Karina Gallardo, Vicki McCracken, Jim McFerson
Purpose Development of new cultivars requires extensive genetic knowledge, trained personnel, and significant financial resources, so it is crucial for breeders to focus on the attributes most preferred by the key supply chain stakeholders such as consumers and producers. This study aims to identify which attributes generate the highest total revenue or social surplus, information that breeders can
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A bootstrap approach for pricing crop yield insurance China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2017-05-02 Yugu Xiao, Ke Wang, Lysa Porth
Purpose - While crop insurance ratemaking has been studied for many decades, it is still faced with many challenges. Crop insurance premium rates (PRs) are traditionally determined only by point estimation, and this approach may lead to uncertainty because it is sensitive to the underwriter’s assumptions regarding the trend, yield distribution, and other issues such as data scarcity and credibility
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Development Economics: The Role of Agriculture in Development China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2017-02-06 Jianqing Ruan
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The impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters’ entry on incumbent supermarkets’ profit margins China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2017-02-06 Yuan Di, Rigoberto Lopez, Xiaoou Liu
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact of Wal-Mart Supercenters (WMSs) on supermarkets’ profit margins using fluid milk in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area in the USA as a case study. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a two-stage dynamic entry game to model market competition in the pre- and post-WMS stages, and test the theoretical model using the method of
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Balancing food security and AMR China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2017-02-06 Ziping Wu
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to focus on economics literature on antimicrobial and alternative uses in food animal production on its current state, its drivers, impacts and policy, and provides a general picture of the research for this special agricultural input and future directions for the research and policy. Design/methodology/approach - Reduction of antimicrobial uses in food animal
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Impact of the methods of groundwater access on irrigation and crop yield in the North China Plain China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2016-11-07 Lijuan Zhang, Jinxia Wang, Guangsheng Zhang, Qiuqiong Huang
Purpose The purpose of this paper is: to track the methods by which farmers access groundwater for irrigation in the North China Plain (NCP); to explore whether climate factors influence farmers’ decisions on the methods of groundwater access for irrigation; and to examine whether the amount of groundwater use for irrigation and crop yield systematically differ across groups of farmers using various
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Best management practices adoption to mitigate non-point source pollution China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2016-11-07 Krishna P. Paudel, Nirmala Devkota, Ying Tan
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the issues of correlated events and individual heterogeneity in multiple best management practices (BMPs) adoption. Design/methodology/approach The authors used survey data collected from broiler producers in Louisiana, USA. The authors estimated several duration models that either considered event dependence or heterogeneity or both. Findings Results
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Rural household income mobility in the people’s commune period China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2016-11-07 Yingwei Huang, Jun Li, Zheng Gu
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term differences in household income and their causes in the people’s commune through a panel of micro-data. Design/methodology/approach The income mobility method (including static Gini mobility and dynamic income transition matrix) as well as the multinomial logit model) are employed in this paper. Findings Empirical results indicate that
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Financial performance of small farm business households: the role of internet China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2016-11-07 Aditya R. Khanal, Ashok K. Mishra
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of internet usage on financial performance of small farm business households in the USA. In particular, the authors want to assess the impact of internet usage on small farm businesses, where the owner’s main occupation is farming. Using a nationwide farm-level data in the USA and a non-parametric matching estimator, the study finds a
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The state’s position in international agricultural commodity trade China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2016-09-05 Hongbo Cai, Yuanyuan Song
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply an analysis of complex networks to empirically research international agricultural commodity trade and countries’ trading relations. The structure of global agricultural commodity trade is quantitatively described and analysed. Design/methodology/approach Based on statistical physics and graph theory, the research paradigm of a complex network, which has
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An empirical analysis of consumer willingness to pay for domestically grown product attributes China Agricultural Economic Review (IF 5.1) Pub Date : 2016-05-03 Jong-Wen Wann, Yu-Chen Yang, Wen-Shing Huang
Purpose - This study investigates consumers' willingness to pay for product attributes of domestically grown fruit and vegetable products. Design/methodology/approach - Conjoint Analysis and Random Utility Model Findings - Our empirical results show that the willingness to pay for attributes of products are different within groups with different education levels. For respondents who had higher education