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2010

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Swait, Joffre

Given the large number of choices that consumers make each day it seems likely that they will generally adopt decision strategies that minimize cognitive effort, particularly with low price products such as most items found in a supermarket. One such strategy may be to simply choose what has been...

1996

Unterschultz, Jim, Quagrainie, Kwamena K.

Financial principles of project investment analysis with the cost and benefit flows over time. Invariably, the correct future cash flows and exact risks are unknown. The agricultural academic literature devotes substantial energy to discussing the estimation of the cash flows but it is relatively...

2002

Ng, Desmond

The concept of knowledge and its related dimensions of information and learning have traditionally received considerable research attention by scholars or organization and strategic management theorists. The increasing role of knowledge as a defining characteristic of the modern knowledge economy...

2024-08-01

Fejzulla, Aela, Pare, Jenna, Parkins, John R.

Renewable energy co-operatives (RECs) provide citizens with opportunities to expand their roles within the energy system while providing environmental, economic and social benefits to local communities. Given the growth of renewable energy technologies and the long-standing use of the...

1997

Just, Lesley, Matose, F., Gill, Dhara S.

The Mafungautsi Forest Area (MFA) is the site of land and resource use conflicts involving people living in adjacent communal areas. This study used qualitative case study information and questionnaire survey data to explore and describe how displaced people and other communities living adjacent...

1992

Tymchuk, Wayne, Lee, Gabriel, Veeman, Terry S., Hamal, Krishna, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Armstrong, Glen W., Veeman, Michele M.

Interest in modeling the relationship between the macroeconomy and the agricultural economy has risen steadily since Schuh's 1974 article which illustrated the potential effects of macroeconomic policy shocks on the agricultural sector. A variety of authors has examined the effects of exchange...

1998

Lerohl, Mel, Dunlevy, Kevin J.

This report examines market opportunities in British Columbia for Alberta produced table potatoes. The report also seeks (1) to assess the cost competitiveness of the Alberta table potato sector, compared with costs of potato production in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the...

2002

Boxall, Peter C., Shapansky, Bradford, Adamowicz, Wiktor

Human values arising from forests include market and non-market values. Timber values and values of non-timber forest products traded in markets (berries, wild rice, etc.) are considered market values. Among non-market values are recreation values and values associated with wildlife harvesting by...

1993

Bhargava, Mukesh, Fulton, Joan

In January 1992 the Fund for the Support of International Development approved Dr. Fulton's and Dr. Bhargava's project proposal titled \"Improving the Performance of Milk Marketing by Dairy Cooperatives in India.\" The objectives of the study as outlined in the proposal were to: 1. Identify...

1996

Xu, Xiaosong, Veeman, Michele M.

Choice of functional form and structural change specification may each influence demand parameter estimates. Joint non-nested testing of both is applied for the linearized almost ideal and Rotterdam models with and without structural change, incorporated by the gradual transition approach. The...