Learning, experience, and firm size
In: Journal of economics and business, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 283-296
ISSN: 0148-6195
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In: Journal of economics and business, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 283-296
ISSN: 0148-6195
In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 137-143
ISSN: 0165-1889
In: Government publications review: an international journal, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 165-167
In: Economics of transition, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 345-371
ISSN: 1468-0351
Polish economic data is assembled in order to assess the impact on the agricultural sector of the recent reforms. Evidence of recovery in this sector is slight, but the decline seems to have halted. Policy issues for agricultural reform are discussed, emphasizing regulation of the monopolistic input and processing sectors. The evidence for the existence and nature of these monopolies is reviewed. The goals of the chief regulatory body in Poland, the Antimonopoly Office, are summarized. A selection of recent models in industrial organization, dealing with entry, horizontal mergers, and vertical control, are used to provide a basis for assessing the direction of Polish regulatory policy.
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 97, Heft 3, S. 939-952
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 89, Heft 2, S. 398-419
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In: Review of agricultural economics: RAE, Band 24, Heft 2, S. 551-554
ISSN: 1467-9353
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 78, Heft 3, S. 542-546
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In: Working Paper, No. 10
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In: University of Florida social sciences monograph 80
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 93, Heft 3, S. 756-767
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In: The journal of developing areas, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 91-115
ISSN: 1548-2278
Sustaining competitiveness over the long run can suggest that decision makers must acquire knowledge to support the selection of technology systems and an understanding of an implemented technology. Social learning is an important source of knowledge acquisition as the decision maker exchanges and discusses information with other decision makers via social communication. The empirical questions are (i) how does the decision maker choose learning partners, and (ii) how does the social learning behavior influence the firm's production decision and technology over time? This study constructs an econometric model to reflect the connection between the decision maker's social learning and the production behavior. The latent class stochastic frontier model (LCSFM) is used to estimate a model of heterogeneous learning using the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) India data. Since caste rank plays an important role in people's social life in rural areas in India, the empirical results reveals the connection between social learning and production behavior by showing the importance of caste rank in production decisions.
In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 79, Heft 4, S. 1340-1351
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In: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Band 78, Heft 4, S. 991-1003
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