US agriculture has become increasingly specialized over the last century with attendant
benefits to food production and affordability. At the same time, specialized agricultural …

We explore how changes in ownership affect the productivity and profitability of producers.
Using detailed data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century …

Using rich data on hourly physical productivity and thousands of ownership changes from
US power plants, we study the effects of acquisitions on efficiency and underlying …

Son 15 yıllık dönemde gıda güvenliği önemli bir konu haline gelmiştir. Bu alanda iki
uluslararası uygulama öne çıkmaktadır: HACCP ve izlenebilirlik. Firmalar gıda piyasalarında …

Significant plant-and industry-wide disruptions have occurred in the US meatpacking
industry during the past several years. The result has been a reinvigorated interest in the …

This book answers the questions: What is happening to American agriculture, and why?
Steven C. Blank uses portfolio theory to analyze both macro-and microeconomic data that …

A two-stage gravity-based model is used to explain cattle and beef bilateral trade flows
between 42 countries. The model parameters are estimated using a double-hurdle model …

Many studies have shown that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) raise firms' productivity. Few
researches investigate whether exporters can enhance export performance after M&A …

This paper presents a dynamic perspective on the processes of farm restructuring following
farm acquisitions by large-scale agroholdings in Ukraine. In particular, the paper employs a …

Purpose: Corporate performance is measured in terms of financial parameters. Firms
operations always aimed towards achieving financial and other goals and fulfilling …