The last decade has witnessed different price trajectories in the international and Chinese agricultural commodity markets. This paper compares and contrasts these dynamic patterns between markets from the perspective of price bubbles. A newly developed right-tailed unit root testing procedure is applied to detect price bubbles in the CBOT and Chinese agricultural futures market during the peri...

The dC$ign of reciprocating compressor cylinder heads consi.Us of thr= main tasks: 1) calculation methods to determine !he aclual SUCS$C$, 2) dctctmination of the factors of safety given thC$C stresscs, 3) validation of these SlrCSSC$ with strain gage dala. This paper will address the first of thC$C tasks, namely, the calculalion of cylinder head Stn=ssCS. A gcncnlized procedure calculating str...

We investigate farmers’ decision to engage in organic production. Our objective is to identify the key factors that promote or hinder the update of organic farming. In particular, we focus on neighborhood factors and the spatial allocation of organic land parcels. A rich spatial panel data of all agricultural parcels is compiled and the information on land use, soil quality, biodiversity, local...

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a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: H32 L13 Q18 I18 Keywords: Excise tax Ad valorem tax Tax incidence Strategic pricing Differentiated products Soft drinks Because soft drink (SD) consumption is considered to be a contributor to the 'epidemic' of obesity, there is a growing interest in evaluating the impact on SD consumption of alternative tax policies. In this paper, we propose a methodo...

Syndecan 2 gene codes for a transmembrane heparan sulfate proteoglycan protein that has an unclear function at the cell surface. The tumorigenic activity of SDC2 in colon carcinoma cell behavior and its influence on the regulation of adhesion and proliferation in colon carcinoma cell has been described (Park et al., 2002). TOX represents a thymus high mobility group box protein that is involved...

  The main purpose of this study is to estimate the maritime transportation elasticities of the environmental pollution and economic growth in Iran within the short-run and long-run to find out the relationships among maritime transportation, environmental pollution and economic growth. The lagged endogenous model (a dynamic log-linear model that we used) is estimated using two distinctive ...