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Do higher corn prices mean less adherence to ecological principles?
08-21-2007 · EurekAlert!Expectations of higher corn prices are leading some farmers to neglect or ignore integrated pest management strategies, and their behavior could undermine the very technologies that sustain them.
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10-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
Wheat, corn and soybean prices, which have moved higher since mid-September, have implications for the production plans of farmers and perhaps for farm policy, said a University of Illinois marketing specialist. "One of the questions generated by high prices is: How will U.S. and world producers respond? A second question is: How will Congress respond?" said Darrel Good.
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05-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
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10-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
Corporate leaders at Dow Chemical, Cracker Barrel and Kodak Eastman have learned the hard way that public protests can drive down the value of an otherwise healthy stock. A new study led by Sarah Soule, professor of sociology at Cornell, and Brayden King, assistant professor of sociology at Brigham Young University, examines how organized public protest affects "abnormal stock price returns."
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08-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
A forthcoming study challenges the predictions of the perfectly competitive model -- that an increase in demand leads to higher prices. Instead, the study finds that immigration can lower the prices of food, clothing, furniture, and appliances and have a significant moderating effect on inflation. Saul Lach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the CEPR) finds that a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants to natives in a city decreases prices by 0.5 percentage points on average.
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11-01-2006 · EurekAlert!
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