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| Kim, C.S.; Hallahan, Charles B.; Taylor, Harold; Schluter, Gerald E.. |
| This article examines the effects of increasing market concentration level in the U.S. nitrogen fertilizer industry. Results indicate that the costs of market power are greater than the benefits of market concentration, in terms of manufacturing cost efficiency. To provide a stable nitrogen fertilizer supply at a relatively low price, it may be necessary to control natural gas price and/or reduce new import barriers from Middle East and former member states of the Soviet Union, where low cost gas is produced as a byproduct. Keywords: Nitrogen fertilizer, oligopoly, economies of size, market power, cost-efficiency. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Nitrogen fertilizer; Oligopoly; Economies of size; Market power; Cost-efficiency.; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19674 |
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| Reed, Albert J.; Hanson, Kenneth; Elitzak, Howard; Schluter, Gerald E.. |
| USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) uses different economic models to estimate the impact of higher input prices on consumer food prices. The present study compares three ERS models. In the first two models, neither consumers nor food producers respond to market prices. We refer to these two models as short-run models. In the third model, both consumers and food producers respond to changing prices, and we refer to this model as a long-run model. Given published parameter estimates, we simulate the impact of a higher energy price on consumer food prices, and our empirical findings are consistent with our understanding of market responses. In the short run, we find that the full effect of an increase in the price of energy is fully (or nearly fully)... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Price-spread model; Input-output model; Variable-proportions model; Food prices; Energy prices; Input prices; Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33574 |
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| Lee, Chinkook; Schluter, Gerald E.; O'Roark, Brian. |
| Will increasing the minimum wage increase food prices as well? This study shows that a simulated $0.50 increase in the minimum wage, if entirely passed on to consumers, would have increased food prices by less than 1 percent for most of the foods at foodstores and by 1 percent at eating and drinking places. Because these estimates were simulated using an economic model that assumed that firms did not alter their production processes when faced with higher minimum wages, these estimates are likely "upward bounds" of the price effects of a minimum wage increase. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/33598 |
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| Hanson, Kenneth; Robinson, Sherman; Schluter, Gerald E.. |
| The effects of a world oil price shock on U.S. agriculture are analyzed in an economywide environment. We use an input-output model to analyze the direct and indirect cost linkages between energy and other sectors of the economy. Then, to allow sectoral output adjustment and the effects on the U.S. current account, we use the U.S. Department of Agricultural/Economic Research Service Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the sectoral effects under three different macro adjustment scenarios. The effects on agriculture are not limited to the direct and indirect energy costs and government support programs for agricultural also matter. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30818 |
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| Lee, Chinkook; Schluter, Gerald E.. |
| This paper was presented at the INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS SYMPOSIUM in Auckland, New Zealand, January 18-19, 2001. The Symposium was sponsored by: the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the Venture Trust, Massey University, New Zealand, and the Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Studies, Massey University. Dietary changes, especially in developing countries, are driving a massive increase in demand for livestock products. The objective of this symposium was to examine the consequences of this phenomenon, which some have even called a "revolution." How are dietary patterns changing, and can increased demands for livestock products be satisfied from domestic resources? If so, at what cost? What will be the flow-on... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14559 |
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