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| Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Ofori-Boadu, Victor; Li, Tongzhe. |
| To reduce national oil dependency, ethanol has been given a center stage of U.S. energy sources. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program was launched to increase the volume of renewable gasoline from 9 billion gallons in 2008 to 36 billion gallons by 2012, among which 15 billion are corn-based ethanol, while U.S. corn-based ethanol can hardly achieve this level. There is a trend that indicates U.S. importing ethanol from other countries, so a bilateral trade system has been established between U.S. and Brazil since 2003. The annual import is 211 million gallons in 2008 (USDC, 2009). Nevertheless, this amount is far away from the target, and the worldwide food shortage called us to divert our attention from fuel to food. China, as the third largest... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Ethanol; Efficiency; Non-food; Productivity; Feedstocks; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Relations/Trade; Productivity Analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56469 |
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| Amponsah, William A.; Ofori-Boadu, Victor. |
| A gravity model using panel data is applied to determine factors affecting textiles and apparel trade flows into the United States. The study confirms that a nation's aggregate output and per unit productivity serve as important determinants of textiles and apparel trade into the U.S., and the exporting country's depreciating exchange rate as well as its lower prices relative to U.S. prices for textiles and apparel play an important role in determining textiles and apparel trade flows to the U.S. market. Since the WTO's multilateral trade restraining policies of the multi-fibre arrangement (MFA) is found to have slowed down imports, its abrogation in 2005 should lead to greater textiles and apparel imports to the U.S. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Brand equity; Brand valuation; Real options; Food firms; Growth option value; Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8191 |
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| Ofori-Boadu, Victor; Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Bhadury, Joy; Dobie, Kathryn; Troy, Samuel P.; Williamson, Nicholas C.. |
| The North Carolina (NC) wine industry has grown rapidly over the past decade and is expected to grow even more as the worldwide wine consumption and export of wines rises. In the United States, the wine market has grown by 13.7 percent since 2002 in volume and by more than 15 percent in dollars as wine has progressed from being a beverage of an elite segment of the market to becoming a mainline beverage, taking its place alongside beer and liquor (MKF Research LLC, 2007; Oches, 2009). The Piedmont Triad Region is uniquely positioned to increase its presence in this industry. Of the 80 wineries in NC that are currently open to the public, nearly half are located in the Piedmont Triad Region. However, growing grapes and making wine is a long term commitment... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Profitability Constraints; Financial Management; Marketing; Distribution; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56384 |
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| Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Shaik, Saleem; Allen, Albert J.; Ofori-Boadu, Victor. |
| Proponents of DR-CAFTA argue the RTA will free the U.S. agricultural sector of these disadvantages by leveling the field through the removal of these tariffs and in many cases, create preferences for U.S. exporters over third country suppliers, including those in Canada, Europe, and South America, helping to restore lost U.S. market share and expand overall U.S. exports. In this paper, we develop gravity models to estimate and predict the potential bilateral trade flows between U.S. and CAFTA countries using panel data. In the course of the study, it was expected that if DR-CAFTA were to have an effect, all countries under the agreement should be trade creators. All the six CAFTA countries but one (Costa Rica) are trade creators. The amount trade... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9815 |
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