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INTERNATIONAL VARIATION OF RETURN ON EQUITY IN THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES
The objective was to analyze the effects of country and firm specific factors on the return on equity in the beverage and tobacco and food and consumer products industries for eleven industrialized nations. The results indicated that country and firm specific factors were important in explaining variation in return on equity within countries but not generally across countries or time.variation on return in equity, globalization, Agribusiness, Industrial Organization,
Designing Catastrophe Bonds to Securitize Systemic Risks in Agriculture: The Case of Georgia Cotton
This article makes an initial attempt to design catastrophe (CAT) bond products for agriculture and examines the potential of these instruments as mechanisms for transferring agricultural risks from insurance companies to investors/speculators in the global capital market. The case of Georgia cotton is considered as a specific example. The CAT bond contracts are based on percentage deviations of realized state average yields relative to the long-run average. The contracts are priced using historical state-level cotton yield data. The principal finding of the study is that the proposed CAT bonds demonstrate potential as risk transfer mechanisms for crop insurance companies.CAT bonds, catastrophe bond pricing, catastrophe insurance, disaster risk, reinsurance, risk securitization, Risk and Uncertainty,
Determinants of Household Participation in Rural Development Projects
This paper provides evidence for determinants of households participation in rural development projects. Study findings are based on qualitative analysis and logistic estimation of a random utility model. Households with higher incomes appear less likely to participate; those with more labor are more likely. Availability of activities of interest to community members could enhance participation.Community/Rural/Urban Development,
A Suggested Criterion for Selecting between E-V and Stochastic Dominance Analysis Tools
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods,
An introduction to numerical methods and analysis
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Subsidizing Unit Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared
An influential result in the literature on charitable giving is that matching subsidies dominate rebate subsidies in raising funds. We investigate whether this result extends to âunit donationâ schemes, a popular alternative form of soliciting donations. There, the donorsâ choices are about the number of units of a charitable good to fund at a given unit price, rather than the amount of money to give. Comparing matches and rebates as well as simple discounts on the unit price, we find no evidence of dominance in our online experiment: The three subsidy types are equally effective overall. At a more disaggregate level, rebates lead to a higher likelihood of giving while matching and discount subsidies lead to larger donations by donors. This suggests that charities using a unit donation scheme enjoy additional degrees of freedom in choosing a subsidy type. Rebates merit additional consideration if the primary goal is to attract donors
Chaos-driven dynamics in spin-orbit coupled atomic gases
The dynamics, appearing after a quantum quench, of a trapped, spin-orbit
coupled, dilute atomic gas is studied. The characteristics of the evolution is
greatly influenced by the symmetries of the system, and we especially compare
evolution for an isotropic Rashba coupling and for an anisotropic spin-orbit
coupling. As we make the spin-orbit coupling anisotropic, we break the
rotational symmetry and the underlying classical model becomes chaotic; the
quantum dynamics is affected accordingly. Within experimentally relevant
time-scales and parameters, the system thermalizes in a quantum sense. The
corresponding equilibration time is found to agree with the Ehrenfest time,
i.e. we numerically verify a ~log(1/h) scaling. Upon thermalization, we find
the equilibrated distributions show examples of quantum scars distinguished by
accumulation of atomic density for certain energies. At shorter time-scales we
discuss non-adiabatic effects deriving from the spin-orbit coupled induced
Dirac point. In the vicinity of the Dirac point, spin fluctuations are large
and, even at short times, a semi-classical analysis fails.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Use of Sperm Proteins as a Putative Fertility Marker
The objectives of this study were to characterize the variation and evaluate whether CD9 and SERPINA5 could be used as fertility markers in bovine sperm
Wie der Einfluss von Lobbyismus auf die Politik in Deutschland und der EU wahrgenommen wird : Auswertung einer reprÀsentativen Umfrage in Deutschland zu Lobbyismus allgemein und Lobbyismus in der EU-Klimapolitik allgemein und Lobbyismus in der EU-Klimapolitik
Die WirkungskanĂ€le von Lobbyismus sind vielfĂ€ltig und â zumindest in der Theorie â weitgehend bekannt. Jedoch gibt es nur wenig empirische Evidenz hinsichtlich der Wahrnehmung von Lobbyismus in der Bevölkerung. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat das ZEW â Leibniz-Zentrum fuÌr EuropĂ€ische Wirtschaftsforschung gemeinsam mit der UniversitĂ€t Mannheim eine reprĂ€sentative Umfrage in Deutschland durchgefuÌhrt. Das Haupter-gebnis: Die groĂe Mehrheit der Bevölkerung sieht nicht nur einen enormen Einfluss von Lobbygruppen auf die nationale und die in BruÌssel gemachte Politik (EU-Politik), sondern steht diesem Einfluss auch sehr ablehnend gegenuÌber
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