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Risk Aversion, Prudence, And The Three-moment Decision Model For Hedging
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Linear moment preference functions have been widely used in decision analysis as approximations of the Von Neumann-Morgenstern Expected Utility (EU). The two-moment mean-variance model is the most...
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Has The Performance Of The Hog Options Market Changed?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The hog option contract has served as a risk management tool for the pork industry for more than 20 years. However, very limited information exists about how this market behaves and how it was...
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Impacts Of Land Ownership And Debt Levels On Farm Survival And Financial Growth
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the impact of alternative land ownership and debt levels on profitability, growth, and survival of a representative cash grain farms and beef farm, using South Dakota...
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Recursive Sustainability: Intertemporal Efficiency And Equity
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
PV-optimality in a capital-resource economy can imply decreasing utility over some portion of the time horizon. Various criteria have been proposed to maintain intergenerational equity defined as...
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Optimal Market Contracting In The California Lettuce Industry
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Marketing and production contracts are a widely used risk mitigating strategy in the agricultural industry. Marketing contracts guarantee a market and focuses on the product at time of delivery....
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Can Growth Compensate Inequality And Risk? - A Welfare Analysis For Chinese Households
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
It has been widely observed that China's break-neck growth has not been equally shared between rural and urban areas, with urban households enjoying a much larger proportion. To further test...
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Determinants Of Entrepreneurship And Small Business Activity: A Two-stage Regression Analysis
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors developed a theoretical model of state-level entrepreneurship activity, as measured independently by firm creation, patent applications and presence of 500Inc. firms. They estimated...
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Economic Efficiency, Structure And Scale Economies In The U.S. Dairy Sector
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses a new dataset based on the 2000 Agricultural Resource Management Survey, the most recent national survey of dairy producers in the United States. A shadow cost function is employed...
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Supply Chain Management And The Changing Structure Of U.S. Organic Produce
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the results of a survey of the organic produce supply chain in the U.S., focusing on supply chain dynamics and firm behavior with a view to changing market forces. The survey...
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The Effect Of Risk Presentation On Product Valuation: An Experimental Analysis
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine how people might evaluate a product with novel attribute, given various kinds of risk information. Using a product with healthful benefits, they assess subjects' willingness to...
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Job Attitudes Of Agricultural Middle Managers
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper analyzes middle managers' job attitudes, in particular job satisfaction, based on case studies. Employees' job satisfaction is expected to reduce human resource management risks, leading...
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Impact Of Financial Variables On Production In Kansas Farms Efficiencies
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper establishes the cost-efficiency frontier and its variation over time for a sample of 610 farms in Kansas for ten consecutive years, from 1995 to 2004. The primary objective consists of...
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Unit Roots, TV-stars, And The Commodity Terms Of Trade: A Further Assessment Of The Prebisch-singer Hypothesis
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, that is, the hypothesis of a long-run decline in the prices of primary commodity prices relative to that of manufactured goods, by considering...
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The Growth And Direction Of The Biodiesel Industry In The US
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The biodiesel industry in the US has seen significant growth over the past decade. Figure 1 reports the annual biodiesel production levels in the US over the past 7 years. Since 1999, annual...
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U.S. And Canadian Livestock Prices: Market Integration And Trade Dependence
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Following implementations of CUSTA in 1989 and NAFTA in 1994, Canadian and U.S. markets were expected to become one of the most integrated regional markets in the world. And, to a great extent,...
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Modeling Yield Distribution In High Risk Counties: Application To Texas Upland Cotton
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Very little attention has been given to the modeling of yield distribution for crops and regions in which yields exhibit irregular behavior. The authors undertake a statistical case study of Texas...
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Effect Of Sensory And Reputation Quality Attributes On Specialty Coffee Prices
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The specialty coffee industry experienced one of the fastest growth rates in the global food markets in the 1990s through the proliferation of cafe and gourmet coffee retailers. Net sales were...
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The Returns To Wages For Mexican Workers In A Post Nafta World: Has The Gap In Returns To Wages Grown Between Mexican Workers In The U.S. And Their Domestic Counterparts?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The author tests to see if the returns to wages for Mexican workers have changed in the Preand Post-NAFTA periods using data from the Mexican Migration Project and a pseudo panel analysis...
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Market Penetration Of Biomass Fuels For Electricity Generation
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Today, biomass accounts for only about 1% of the fuel used for electricity generation in the U.S.; whereas coal alone accounts for more than 50%, and nuclear, natural gas, hydro and petroleum...
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Welfare Effects Of Technological Convergence In The Food Industries
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Extensive efforts have been made to understand the relationship between trade and technology (Grossman and Helpman, 1994). Traditional trade models treat technology as exogenous and address how...
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Identifying Submarket In The Wine Industry: A Multivariate Approach To Hedonic Regression
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Several authors have utilized the hedonic approach (Rosen, 1974) to investigate the determinants of wine prices. Most of the research effort has been directed so far to determine which attributes...
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Public Regulation Of R&D Racings
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of the paper is to theoretically examine the welfare implications of public sector involvement in agricultural biotechnology R&D. The model assumes that firms (either a private duopoly...
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Spatial Clustering Of The U.S. Biotech Industry
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper develops a county-level spatial tobit model that analyzes factors affecting site-selection of the U.S. biotech industry. The hypothesis of spatial agglomeration economies is confirmed...
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Risk Management For Ag Families: An Extension Model For Improving Family Business Success
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Agricultural producers face a dramatically riskier business environment with the trade agreements and farm policy changes of the 1990s and early 2000s. This risky environment for agricultural...
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Market Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) Hypothesis Revisited Using Stochastic Frontier Efficiency Analysis
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Use of efficiency measures as a proxy for performance to test the market Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) hypothesis is explored. Utilizing Battese and Coelli specification, the authors...
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Food Supply Chain Consequences Of New Responses To Livestock Epidemics
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies supply chain consequences from applying the new - more socially acceptable - strategy of emergency vaccination instead of the large-scale killing of healthy animals for...
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Economic Growth, Lifestyle Changes, And The Coexistence Of Under And Overweight In China: A Semiparametric Approach
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
During 1991-2000 when a rapid economic growth and rapid changes in lifestyles were observed, China experienced a rapid increase in overweight while still experiencing significant food insecurity...
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Estimating Threshold Effects Of Generic Fluid Milk And Cheese Advertising
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With the proliferation of commodity checkoff programs and the resulting intensification of generic advertising and promotion activities, a significant amount of resources and effort have been...
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Estimating Liquidity Costs In Agricultural Futures Markets Using Bayesian Methods
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Estimation of liquidity costs in futures markets is challenging because bid-ask spreads are usually not observed. Several estimators of liquidity costs exist that use transaction data, but there...
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Decomposition Of Total Factor Productivity Change In The U.S. Hog Industry, 1992-2004
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
There have been dramatic structural changes in the U.S. hog industry in the last two decades that have coincided with substantial increases in farm productivity. This paper used a stochastic...
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Adoption Of E-marketing By Direct Market Farms In The Northeastern U.S
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Many farms have begun operating websites in order to promote their businesses. This paper used data from a survey of farms in the northeastern U.S. for the year 2004 in order to identify...
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Do Interest Rates Explain Disaggregate Commodity Price Growth?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The storage at a loss paradox - inventories despite an inadequate spot-futures price spread to cover storage costs - is an unresolved issue of long-standing interest to economists. Alternative...
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Total Factor Productivity And Canadian Softwood Lumber Imports
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The gap in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in sawmill and wood preservation industry widened between the US and Canada over the period 1958 to 2003. Stages of the softwood lumber dispute...
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A Semiparametric Test For Heterogeneous Risk
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Various empirical settings feature repeated exposure to a risk that leads to a binary classification at the observation level. The standard modeling approach treats the outcomes as a series of...
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On The Relative Disadvantage Of Cooperatives
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Cooperatives and investor-owned firms are alternative forms of business organization that coexist and compete in many markets. The theoretical literature has identified a number of comparative...
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Investment And Income Responses To Marketing Channel Choice
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The international development community has recently shifted away from the traditional technology-push paradigms towards the promotion of market-driven approaches that link farmers to markets as...
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Cooperative Growth And Decline: A Game Theoretic Approach To Understanding Members' Allocation Choices
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
As numbers of agricultural cooperatives and memberships decline it is natural to question whether cooperatives are as competitive as other forms of agribusiness (Kraenzle et al.). A recent survey...
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How Distorting Are Direct Payments?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Theory implies that decoupled payments should not distort market outcomes. If non-distortionary, a government could use them in domestic policies without affecting either domestic or international...
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Integrating The Structural Auction Approach And Traditional Measures Of Market Power
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper asks the question, what is the relationship between traditional models of market power and structural auction models? An encompassing model is derived that considers both price...
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Valuing Farm Financial Information
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite the merits of good farm record keeping, little is known about the value farmers place on their farm financial records. This paper uses a willingness-to-accept experimental second price...
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Group Versus Individual Preferences For Risk: An Experimental Analysis Of The Effect Of Group Composition
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Greater attention has been paid to understanding differences between individual and group decision-making in economics in recent years. While strong trends have been found in understanding the...
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Chasing Absolute Cost And Profit Savings In A World Of Relative Inefficiency
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Econometric models to estimate allocative and technical inefficiency include stochastic shadow distance frontiers, shadow cost frontiers, and shadow profit frontiers. In these models, the cost...
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Induced Innovation In The Agricultural Sector: Evidence From A State Panel
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper uses recently developed panel cointegration techniques and error correction modeling to test the hypothesis of induced innovation in a state-level panel of U.S. agricultural production....
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Measuring The Impact Of Globalization On The Well-being Of The Poor: Methodology And An Application To Africa
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Whereas a large number of empirical studies have been devoted to analyzing the relationship between measures of income and globalization (defined by openness to international trade), much less...
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Scale As A Transaction Cost Variable In The U.S. Biopower Industry
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With increasing interest in renewable energy from agriculture, including biopower and cellulose ethanol, several aspects of the industry must be understood. Study of the organization of the...
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Accruals, Free Cash Flows, And Ebitda For Agribusiness Firms
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the relationships between the accrual and cash flow components of earnings for agribusiness. Three accrual models with their respective cash flows, free cash flows, and free...
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Trust In Biotechnology Risk Managers: Insights From The United Kingdom, 1996-2002
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The mid to late 1990s saw a series of negative media events in the United Kingdom (UK) related to biotechnology. According to the trust asymmetry hypothesis, such events ought to cause public...
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The Role Of Knowledge Externalities In The Spatial Distribution Of Economic Growth: A Spatial Econometric Analysis For US Counties, 1969-2003
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The traditional view of cities as monocentric conglomerates of people clustered around an employment center, driving economic growth in cities that subsequently trickles down to the hinterland, is...
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Is Risk Aversion Really Correlated With Wealth? How Estimated Probabilities Introduce Spurious Correlation
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Economists attribute many common behaviors to risk aversion and frequently focus on how wealth moderates risk preferences. This paper highlights a problem associated with empirical tests of the...
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The Relative Importance Of Global Agricultural Subsidies And Market Access
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The claim by global trade modelers that the potential contribution to global economic welfare of removing agricultural subsidies is less than one-tenth of that from removing agricultural tariffs...
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An Analysis Of Financing Innovation And Commercialization In Canada's Functional Food And Nutraceutical Sector
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Growing consumer interest in functional foods and nutraceuticals has been seen as a significant business opportunity for the agri-food sector. Many of the new firms in this sector are Small and...
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Farm Financial Performance From Borrower And Lender Perspectives
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This papper answers how profitability changes from a lender and borrower perspective. Using the FBFM data for periods from 1995 to 2004, the authors find that the variables that explain the...
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Tax Increment Financing For Optimal Open Space Preservation: An Economic Inquiry
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The public has increasingly demonstrated a strong support for open space preservation. Questions left to local policy-makers are how local governments can finance preservation of open space in a...
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Direct Marketing Of Fresh Produce: Understanding Consumer Interest In Product And Process-based Attributes
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Direct marketing to consumers by small and medium-sized producers is on the rise and becoming an important source of revenue for farms with more limited economies of scale. Evidence of direct...
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Asset Utilization And Bias In Measures Of U.S. Agricultural Productivity
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A common observation is that measures of productivity growth are pro-cyclical, meaning they are higher (or grow faster) on average during periods of economic expansion than during periods of...
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Context Similarity And The Validity Of Benefits Transfer: Is The Common Wisdom Correct?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Choice experiments are designed to account for variations in environmental resources and site characteristics, as well as potential implications of these variations for willingness to pay. This...
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Milk Marketing Order Winners And Losers
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Do milk marketing orders affect various demographic groups differently? To answer this question, the authors use supermarket scanner data to estimate an incomplete demand system for dairy...
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Valuing Farm Financial Information
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Despite the merits of good farm record keeping, little is known about the value farmers place on their farm financial records. This paper uses a willingness-to-accept experimental second price...
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White Papers
Integrating The Structural Auction Approach And Traditional Measures Of Market Power
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper asks the question, what is the relationship between traditional models of market power and structural auction models? An encompassing model is derived that considers both price...
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White Papers
How Distorting Are Direct Payments?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Theory implies that decoupled payments should not distort market outcomes. If non-distortionary, a government could use them in domestic policies without affecting either domestic or international...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Cooperative Growth And Decline: A Game Theoretic Approach To Understanding Members' Allocation Choices
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
As numbers of agricultural cooperatives and memberships decline it is natural to question whether cooperatives are as competitive as other forms of agribusiness (Kraenzle et al.). A recent survey...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Investment And Income Responses To Marketing Channel Choice
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The international development community has recently shifted away from the traditional technology-push paradigms towards the promotion of market-driven approaches that link farmers to markets as...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
On The Relative Disadvantage Of Cooperatives
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Cooperatives and investor-owned firms are alternative forms of business organization that coexist and compete in many markets. The theoretical literature has identified a number of comparative...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
A Semiparametric Test For Heterogeneous Risk
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Various empirical settings feature repeated exposure to a risk that leads to a binary classification at the observation level. The standard modeling approach treats the outcomes as a series of...
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White Papers
Total Factor Productivity And Canadian Softwood Lumber Imports
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The gap in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in sawmill and wood preservation industry widened between the US and Canada over the period 1958 to 2003. Stages of the softwood lumber dispute...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Do Interest Rates Explain Disaggregate Commodity Price Growth?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The storage at a loss paradox - inventories despite an inadequate spot-futures price spread to cover storage costs - is an unresolved issue of long-standing interest to economists. Alternative...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Adoption Of E-marketing By Direct Market Farms In The Northeastern U.S
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Many farms have begun operating websites in order to promote their businesses. This paper used data from a survey of farms in the northeastern U.S. for the year 2004 in order to identify...
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White Papers
Decomposition Of Total Factor Productivity Change In The U.S. Hog Industry, 1992-2004
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
There have been dramatic structural changes in the U.S. hog industry in the last two decades that have coincided with substantial increases in farm productivity. This paper used a stochastic...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Estimating Liquidity Costs In Agricultural Futures Markets Using Bayesian Methods
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Estimation of liquidity costs in futures markets is challenging because bid-ask spreads are usually not observed. Several estimators of liquidity costs exist that use transaction data, but there...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Estimating Threshold Effects Of Generic Fluid Milk And Cheese Advertising
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
With the proliferation of commodity checkoff programs and the resulting intensification of generic advertising and promotion activities, a significant amount of resources and effort have been...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Economic Growth, Lifestyle Changes, And The Coexistence Of Under And Overweight In China: A Semiparametric Approach
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
During 1991-2000 when a rapid economic growth and rapid changes in lifestyles were observed, China experienced a rapid increase in overweight while still experiencing significant food insecurity...
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Food Supply Chain Consequences Of New Responses To Livestock Epidemics
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies supply chain consequences from applying the new - more socially acceptable - strategy of emergency vaccination instead of the large-scale killing of healthy animals for...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Market Structure Conduct Performance (SCP) Hypothesis Revisited Using Stochastic Frontier Efficiency Analysis
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Use of efficiency measures as a proxy for performance to test the market Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) hypothesis is explored. Utilizing Battese and Coelli specification, the authors...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Risk Management For Ag Families: An Extension Model For Improving Family Business Success
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Agricultural producers face a dramatically riskier business environment with the trade agreements and farm policy changes of the 1990s and early 2000s. This risky environment for agricultural...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Spatial Clustering Of The U.S. Biotech Industry
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The paper develops a county-level spatial tobit model that analyzes factors affecting site-selection of the U.S. biotech industry. The hypothesis of spatial agglomeration economies is confirmed...
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White Papers
Public Regulation Of R&D Racings
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of the paper is to theoretically examine the welfare implications of public sector involvement in agricultural biotechnology R&D. The model assumes that firms (either a private duopoly...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Identifying Submarket In The Wine Industry: A Multivariate Approach To Hedonic Regression
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Several authors have utilized the hedonic approach (Rosen, 1974) to investigate the determinants of wine prices. Most of the research effort has been directed so far to determine which attributes...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Welfare Effects Of Technological Convergence In The Food Industries
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Extensive efforts have been made to understand the relationship between trade and technology (Grossman and Helpman, 1994). Traditional trade models treat technology as exogenous and address how...
Provided by American Agricultural Economics Association
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White Papers
Market Penetration Of Biomass Fuels For Electricity Generation
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Today, biomass accounts for only about 1% of the fuel used for electricity generation in the U.S.; whereas coal alone accounts for more than 50%, and nuclear, natural gas, hydro and petroleum...
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The Returns To Wages For Mexican Workers In A Post Nafta World: Has The Gap In Returns To Wages Grown Between Mexican Workers In The U.S. And Their Domestic Counterparts?
July 26, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The author tests to see if the returns to wages for Mexican workers have changed in the Preand Post-NAFTA periods using data from the Mexican Migration Project and a pseudo panel analysis...
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