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| Chase, Robert A.; Coon, Randal C.; Chase, Connie L.; Vocke, Carlena F.; Vuchetich, Rebecca J.; Leistritz, F. Larry; Hertsgaard, Thor A.; Ransom-Nelson, William; Murdock, Steven H.; Yang, Pai-Sung; Sharma, Rakesh. |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 1982 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120773 |
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| Fenske, James. |
| I show how abundant land and scarce labor shaped African institutions before colonial rule. I present a model in which exogenous suitability of the land for agriculture and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I then use cross-sectional data on pre-colonial African societies to demonstrate that, consistent with the model, the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny occurred in those parts of Africa that were the most suitable for agriculture, and in which population density was greatest. Next, I use the model to explain institutions among the Egba of southwestern Nigeria from 1830 to 1914. While many Egba institutions were typical of a land-abundant environment, they sold land and had... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Institutions; Land rights; Slavery; Polygyny; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; International Development; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy; N57; O10. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55707 |
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| Devic, Ana. |
| This paper addresses the issue of regionalism - as a form of identity and political mobilization - in the multiethnic northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, which has until today been spared of inter-ethnic violence that has characterized all other constitutive regions of the former socialist federative Yugoslavia. Based on a study of the development and activities of the Vojvodinian political parties and non-governmental organizations that have sought to wrest autonomy of the region vis-à-vis Serbia during both the reign of Slobodan Milosevic's regime and the rule of the democratic coalition that dethroned his party in 2000, as well as numerous surveys on the population's grievances and identities, the following questions are being asked: what is the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18756 |
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| Karali, Berna. |
| The value of USDA reports has long been a question of interest for researchers and practitioners. However, the impact of announcements on comovements across related commodity prices has not been explored beyond financial asset markets. This is important because the structure of the relationship between commodities could change depending on the type of information revealed in the announcement, thus affecting price perceptions, hedging ratios, and portfolio return variance. This study simultaneously measures the impact of selected USDA reports on the conditional variances and covariances of returns on corn, lean hogs, soybeans, soybean meal, and soybean oil futures contracts using a multivariate GARCH model. It is shown that the largest movements in... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Announcement effects; Futures markets; Market efficiency; Multivariate GARCH; USDA reports; Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122315 |
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| Roe, Terry L.; Yeldan, A. Erinc. |
| The paper develops a formal model of government's economic decisions as influenced by private agents within the context of neoclassical political economy. The government is assumed to form preferences over interest groups in the economy; in turn these preferences are influenced by the rent seeking behavior of these groups. An open, two-household, two-sector general equilibrium model is constructed to depict an environment in which preference-maximizing (rational) individuals allocate otherwise productive labor to directly unproductive rent seeking activities in order to exert political pressure on the government's choice of policy instruments. With the aid of five comparative-static experiments, the game-theoretic component and the second-best nature of... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Political Economy. |
| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7499 |
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| Frohberg, Klaus; Hartmann, Monika. |
| The consequences of integration of the agricultural and food sectors between the Central and Eastern European candidate countries and the EU are investigated in this paper. The analysis indicates substantial structural problems in the agricultural sector of most Central European countries (CECs). In most of these countries, the transition process resulted in a highly fragmented farm structure. This impedes the efficient use of the given production factors, at least in the medium and long term. Furthermore, the competitiveness of both sectors is hampered by low investments. Additional problems in the downstream sector are the result of significant excess capacities and insufficient product and process qualities. Delays and failures in creating and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14888 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi. |
| In this paper I give an account of development debates of the past two decades, focusing on the Washington Consensus and on the broader economic development discourse in historical context. Section 2 gives a basic account of the Washington consensus and how its meaning changed from the original formulation. Section 3 presents the evolution of the economic development discourse since the second-world-war, through the 1980s, up to the present. Section 4 asks if there is now a new consensus on economic development, in light of the recent report of the Commission on Growth and Development. Section 5 concludes. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48920 |
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| Kanbur, Ravi. |
| The informality discourse is large, vibrant and expanding fast. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply a tight definition consistently, the literature as a whole is in a mess. This paper proposes that informality and formality should be seen in direct relation to economic activity in the presence of specified regulation(s). Relative to the regulation(s), four conceptual categories that can help frame the analysis are: (A) regulation applicable and compliant, (B) regulation applicable and non-compliant, (C) regulation non-applicable after adjustment of activity and (D)... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48926 |
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| Sorensen, Ann-Christin; Tennbakk, Berit. |
| We have employed a simple model to analyse market regulation in a situation with multifunctional agricultural production, i.e., a public good produced jointly with a private good, and where there is imperfect competition in processing. We have analysed the impact on welfare of two archetype regulatory institutions formed to overcome the market imperfections. The institutions, a Regulatory Marketing Board and a Regulatory Marketing Cooperative, are both represented in the Norwegian agricultural market. Taking into account the cost of public funds, we find that the Board in general ensures the highest social welfare. The Cooperative does not replicate the Board solution unless restricted by a price cap and in combination with a production subsidy. If the... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cooperative; Marketing board; Multifunctionality; Oligopsony; Trade; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24916 |
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| Thoroe, Carsten. |
| In agricultural policy in Germany institutional and functional spheres of responsibility are mixed. The constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany warrants a strong position to the federal states in relation to the federal government. But in fact, the decentralized lines of the constitutional law and the clear division of responsibilities between the federal government and the federal states have lost their contours over time. Taking the developments on the revenue side and the expenditure side together, in the national sphere in Germany there is the impression that the various governmental levels form a sturdy “network”. Only at the level of implementation there are quite pronounced decentralized elements. There has been much critical discussion... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Distribution of responsibility; Political entanglement; Subsidiarity; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98875 |
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