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      <title>Succession in agricultural households: A probit and a competing risk analysis</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/38625</link>
      <description>Titel: Succession in agricultural households: A probit and a competing risk analysis
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Glauben, Thomas; Tietje, Hendrik; Weiss, Christoph
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: The present study examines family and farm characteristics affecting the choice and the timing of intergenerational farm transfers. Using survey data which are linked to accounting data for 272 farms in Northern Germany, we use a probit approach to examine whether specific farm and family characteristics are related to the likelihood of succession within a given period. We go beyond the existing literature by applying a competing risk approach to study the process and thus the timing, respectively of the two competing events - succession or exit from farming. We find that farm characteristics significantly influence succession considerations to the extent that they affect the value of the farm for the potential successor.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Utility based regional purchasing power parities</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/38626</link>
      <description>Titel: Utility based regional purchasing power parities
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Missong, Martin; Rolf, Anja
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: Calculation of purchasing power parities based on observed consumer behaviour typically relies on the existence of some kind of 'international preferences'. We argue that this unrealistic assumption can be abandoned in 'regional' studies of purchasing power, where prices in both territories under study might differ only slightly. Drawing on recent results for the derivation of equivalence scales, we develop a model of regional purchasing power and discuss several procedures for testing model specification. The model is applied to data of the German Income and Expenditure Survey 1998 to estimate the wedge between purchasing power in the western and eastern part of Germany.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The impact of policy reform on productivity and efficiency in Chinese agriculture: A distance function approach</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/38624</link>
      <description>Titel: The impact of policy reform on productivity and efficiency in Chinese agriculture: A distance function approach
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Brümmer, Bernhard; Glauben, Thomas; Lu, Wencong
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is decomposed into technical and allocative efficiency, technical change, and scale effects. We estimate a parametric output distance function using individual farm household data from the province Zhejiang over the period 1986-2000. Results indicate that during the more market-oriented reform period in the mid 1980s productivity and technical efficiency increased while allocative efficiency remain constant. However, productivity growth and technical efficiency slow in the mid 1990s when market orientation of the reforms was reduced and self-sufficiency as a major goal reappeared on the political agenda.</description>
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      <title>Seasonality, capital inflexibility, and the industrialization of animal production</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/38623</link>
      <description>Titel: Seasonality, capital inflexibility, and the industrialization of animal production
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&lt;br/&gt;Autoren: Roosen, Jutta; Hennessy, David A.
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&lt;br/&gt;Zusammenfassung: Among prominent recognized features of the industrialization of animal production over the past half century are growth in the stock of inflexible, or use-dedicated capital, as an input in production, and growth in productivity. Less recognized is a trend toward aseasonal production. We record the deseasonalization of animal production in the US and European countries over the past 70 years. We also suggest that A) lower seasonality can precede or Granger-cause increased productivity due to increased capital intensity, and B) productivity improvements can Granger-cause lower seasonality. Process A) should be more likely earlier in the industrialization process. For US dairy production, our empirical tests find some evidence that process A) operated early in the 20th Century while process B) operated in more recent times.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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