This paper uses auction theory to analyze wholesale markets for wheat in Northern India. This approach enables us not only to characterize the market in terms of buyer asymmetries, but also to detect the existence of collusion and to quantify its impact on market prices. We show that buyer asymmetries exacerbate the downward impact of collusion on prices. The paper also demonstrates the use of ...

We examine regulations for managing pest resistance to pesticide varieties in a temporally and spatially explicit framework. We compare the performance of the EPA’s mandatory refuges and a tax (or subsidy) on the pesticide variety under several biological assumptions on pest mobility and the heterogeneity of farmers’ pest vulnerability. We find that only the tax (or subsidy) restores efficiency...

This article examines the determinants of the pattern of protection across products in the Brazilian agricultural sector from 1969 to 1989. Three key determinants of policy are explored: interest group pressure, government objectives, and structural change associated with economic crisis and a change in political regime. The principal agricultural policies are analyzed, and nominal protection c...

Agricultural support has changed substantially in both rich and poor countries recent years. In countries, there been a strong move to decoupled subsidies fall average rates of protection. developing market price remains the dominant form protection, have risen—breaking traditional pattern taxing agriculture. Emissions from agriculture land use change contributed up third total greenhouse gas e...

From Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of European Green Deal – new growth strategy EU and a key implementation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). designed for building fair, healthy environmentally-friendly food system with an integrated safety policy in Union. Current paper presents some strategic accents main documents initiatives concerning future sustainable agri-food systems contex...

Abstract Spirits represent around 50% of global alcohol consumption. This sector is much less studied than other alcoholic beverages such as wine or beer. paper reviews the economic history spirits and analyzes recent trends in markets. The technology to produce more complex for Distillation was known ancient Chinese, Indian, Greek, Egyptian societies, but it took innovations by Arabs distill a...

The present paper thoroughly explores second-best efficient allocations in an adverse selection insurance economy. We start from a natural extension of the classical model, assuming less than perfect risk perceptions. We propose first and second welfare theorems, by means of which we describe efficiencyenhancing policies. Notions of weak and strong adverse selection are promising for interpreti...

Op18/stathmin (Op18) is a phosphorylation-regulated microtubule destabilizer that is frequently overexpressed in tumors. The importance of Op18 in malignancy was recently suggested by identification of a somatic Q18-->E mutation of Op18 in an adenocarcinoma. We addressed the functional consequences of aberrant Op18 expression in leukemias by analyzing the cell cycle of K562 cells either deplete...

providing of food products for increasing population, enhancing food security, increasing of production and foreign incomes are among the major program purposes of each country and monetary policies are one of the methods that immediately affected on food price and on major agriculture variables. time series analysis was used for studying the impacts of monetary policies effect on food price in...