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Agricultural Economics
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Edited by: Angelo Zago
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Universita degli Studi di Verona
Date: 2005-06-19
Papers: 4
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In this issue we have:
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1. Privatizing the Commons and Economic Degradation
Christopher J. Ellis; Edward Birdyshaw
2. Market Integration in Wholesale Rice Markets in India
Raghbendra Jha; K.V. Bhanu Murthy; Anurag Sharma
3. Environmental Auditing and the Role of the Accountancy
Profession: A Literature Review
P. DE MOOR; I. DE BEELDE
4. Measuring Education Levels of Farmers: Evidence from
Innovation Adoption in Bangladesh
Masakazu Hojo
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1. Privatizing the Commons and Economic Degradation
Christopher J. Ellis (University of Oregon)
Edward Birdyshaw (California State University, Fresno)
We develop a dynamic model of the exploitation of an
environmental resource with endogenous property rights. We are
able to explain both the evolution of property rights and
environmental quality. In some circumstances the time path of
environmental quality is U-shaped and resembles an Environmental
Kuznets Curve. However this patern derives from changes in the
property rights regime, not from changes in income.
Keywords: Commons, Property Rights, Environmental Resource
JEL: Q20 Q50
Date: 2005-05-01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ore:uoecwp:2005-10&r=agr
2. Market Integration in Wholesale Rice Markets in India
Raghbendra Jha
K.V. Bhanu Murthy
Anurag Sharma
This paper tests for market integration in 55 wholesale rice
markets in India using monthly data over the period January 1970 -
December 1999. The technique of Gonzalez-Rivera and Helfand (
2001) is used to identify common factors across various markets.
It is discovered that market integration is far from complete in
India and a major reason for this is the excessive interference
in rice markets by government agencies. As a result it is hard
for scarcity conditions in isolated markets to be picked up by
markets with abundance in supply. A number of policy implications
are also considered.
Keywords: Length (pages): 36
Date: 2005
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pas:asarcc:2005-03&r=agr
3. Environmental Auditing and the Role of the Accountancy
Profession: A Literature Review
P. DE MOOR
I. DE BEELDE
This review of the literature on environmental auditing and the
potential role of accountants distinguishes between compliance
audits and audits of the environmental management system. After
an extensive introduction to the concept, this review focuses on
the similarities and differences between an environmental audit
and a financial statement audit. Except that environmental audits
are largely unregulated, the general approach to both types of
audits is similar. Both audits place an emphasis on the
evaluation of control systems, which is an argument in favor of
external auditors playing a role in environmental audits. Another
argument for including external accountants, is their code of
ethics. However, these professionals seem to be reluctant to
enter the field of environmental auditing. It is argued that this
reluctance is because of a lack of generally accepted principles
for conducting environmental audits. If external accountants are
engaged in environmental auditing, they should be part of
multidisciplinary teams that also include scientists and
engineers to avoid a too strong focus on procedures. Rather than
treating these audits as totally different, it is proposed that
there be a move towards integrated, or even universal, audits.
Keywords: Environmental auditing, Environmental reporting,
Compliance audit, Environmental management system,
External auditors
Date: 2005-04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rug:rugwps:05/303&r=agr
4. Measuring Education Levels of Farmers: Evidence from
Innovation Adoption in Bangladesh
Masakazu Hojo (Osaka School of International Public Policy,
Osaka University)
Education levels of farmers have been measured in a variety of
ways in preceding studies. In order to examine whether or not
different measures of education have different effects on the
behavior of farmers, I first summarize the measures of education
and then perform an empirical analysis. Although education
measures examined in this paper have been used in many studies,
their effects are shown to differ significantly in my empirical
analysis: some variables have positive impacts on farmerfs
behavior while others do not. This result suggests we have to pay
more attention to selecting measures of education in empirical
investigations.
Keywords: Education; Agriculture; Technology adoption; Bangladesh
JEL: I20 Q12 Q16
Date: 2004-03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osk:wpaper:04-06&r=agr
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