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The paper aims to investigate the biases produced by assessing the effects of partial liberalisation of EC and US farm policies through comparative‐static simulations, when a more adequate approach would require time, or more precisely technical change, to be explicitly accounted for. Three points are underlined: taking into account technical change (i) alters the trade‐off between farm income and budgetary expenditures, (ii) has different effects according to the policy instruments used, and (iii) may reverse the sign of cross‐effects, particularly on the budget, in the case of large price‐support reductions which result in trade reversal. The relatively limited fall in farm income losses in scenarios corresponding to full harmonisation makes the associated support‐price cuts more acceptable, both politically and

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DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00341.x

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年代:1991

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The paper investigates whether the changing pattern of meat and fish purchases, which has occurred in Britain since the 1960s, is due to changes in the structure of consumer preferences or is attributable to conventional economic factors (changes in relative prices and total expenditure). The analysis is based on two non‐parametric tests, derived from revealed preference theory. These do not require the explicit specification and estimation of a demand system. The hypothesis that the data are consistent with stable preferences is accepted; in principle, all variations in consumption can be fully explained by price and expenditure changes. However, some caution is counselled. As with all hypothesis testing, acceptance is less conclusive than rejection; some structural changes in preferences may have gone undetecte

ISSN:0021-857X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00342.x

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年代:1991

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Integrated decision rules in small‐holder farm management provide an analytical approach which may encourage more effective communication in farmer‐extension‐research dialogue and thus facilitate the development of more relevant extension messages. An example of integrated decision rules is described, their efficiency as management tools is examined, and an illustration is given of how such an analysis could be used in extension

ISSN:0021-857X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00343.x

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年代:1991

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While co‐operative organisations fare well in agricultural markets in the United States, this paper argues that co‐operatives are theoretically an inherently inferior form of organisation. Empirically, we apply a nonparametric frontier production model to a sample of co‐operative and non‐co‐operative US fluid‐milk processors to determine the relative productive efficiency of these two forms of organisation. Our empirical results support the hypothesis that US milk processing co‐operatives are less efficient than their proprietary

ISSN:0021-857X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00344.x

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年代:1991

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The effects of three alternative definitions of demand on estimated parameters are explored in a travel‐cost study of aggregate demand for recreational angling in Northern Ireland in 1988. Functions are estimated using individual visits and zonal visitation rates for the number of visits and the number of visitors as alternative demand definitions. The approach using individual visits was found to be the more satisfactory in statistical terms and in relation to estimates of user benefits when compared with a parallel contingency valuation study. It is judged to be the more appropriate approach where there is a well defined and quantifiable user group. However, the modelling of income and substitutes in the functions proved to be unsatisfactory, perhaps due to inadequate specification and measurement of these variable

ISSN:0021-857X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00345.x

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年代:1991

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In this paper, a closed‐economy model is developed for evaluating the size and the distribution of benefits from research that lowers the mean incidence of pork with pale, soft and exudative (PSE) syndrome. The major finding is that the Australian pig industry has the potential to derive gross research benefits of about A$7 million per year from a one percentage point reduction in the incidence of pork with PSE conditions. About 85 per cent of the total research benefits accrue to pork producers. The implication is that it is profitable for pork producers to invest large sums in order to reduce PSE syndrome in por

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DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00346.x

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年代:1991

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DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00347.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00348.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0021-857X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00349.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

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Book reviews in this article:ALEXANDRATOS, N. (1990).European Agriculture: Policy Issues and Options to 2000.LondonBARDHAM, P. K. (ed.) (1989).The Economic Theory of Agrarian Institutions.Oxford: Clarendon PressBRENT, R. J. (1990).Project Appraisal for Developing Countries.New York: New York University PressGOLDIN, I. and KNUDSEN, O. (eds.) (1990).Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: Implications for Developing Countries.WashingtonGRENNES, T. (ed.) (1990).International Financial Markets and Agricultural Trade.BoulderHALLAM, D. (1990).Econometric Modelling of Agricultural Commodity Markets.London: RoutledgeLAMPKIN, N. (1990).Organic Farming.Ipswich: Farming PressMOYER, H. W. and JOSLING, T. E. (1990).Agricultural Policy Reform: Politics and Process in the EC and USA.PLUCKNETT, N., SMITH, J. H. and OZGEDIZ, S. (1990).Networking in International Agricultural Research.ROBINSON, G. M. (1990).Conflict and Change in the Countryside.STOECKEL, A. B., VINCENT, D. and CUTHBERTSON, S. (eds.) (1989).Macroeconomic Consequences of Farm Support Policies.TSAKOK, I. (1990).Agricultural Price Policy ‐ A Practitioner's Guide to Partial‐Equilibrium Analysis.ARNOLD, R. and VILLAIN, C. (1990).New Directions for European Agricultural Policy.KNUDSEN, O. and NASH, J. with contributions by BOVARD, J., GARDNER, B. and WINTERS, L. A. (1990).Redefining the Role of Government in Agriculture for the 1990s.OECD (1990).Modelling the Effects of Agricultural Policies.OECD Economic Studies No. 13, Winter 1989–1990. ParisOECD (1990).Reforming Agricultural Policies: Quantitative Restrictions on Production‐Direct Income Support.ParisOECD (1990).Economic Accounts for Agriculture, 1974–1987.Paris: Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and DevelopmentREES, J. (1990).Natural Resources: Allocation, Economics and Policy.Second Edition. Andover: Routledge, Chapman and HallEICHER, C. K. and STAATZ, J. M. (eds.) (1990).Agricultural Development in the Third World.Second Edition. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University PressSAITO, K. A. and WEIDEMANN, C. J. (1990).Agricultural Extension for Women Farmers in Africa.PLUCKNETT, D. L., SMITH, N. J. H. and OZGEDIZ, S. (1990).International Agricultural Research: A Database

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DOI:10.1111/j.1477-9552.1991.tb00350.x

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年代:1991

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