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| Fisher, Monica G.; Shively, Gerald E.; Buccola, Steven T.. |
| In this paper we explore forest use and activity choice among low-income households in Malawi. Using data from three villages in southern Malawi we investigate factors related to forest use by jointly estimating four labor share equations for forest use, maize production, wage-work, and self-employment. This approach allows us to examine factors influencing competing and synergistic livelihood strategies simultaneously undertaken by households living at the forest margin. Results from constrained ML estimation indicate greater incentives to degrade forests where the returns to forest use are high. Factors that reduce pressure on forests include availability of low-cost fuel substitutes, tree planting on the farm, favorable returns to wage-work and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28616 |
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| Rada, Nicholas E.; Buccola, Steven T.; Fuglie, Keith O.. |
| Brazil now is the largest coffee, sugar, and fruit juice producer, second-largest soybean and beef producer, and third-largest corn and broiler producer. It has overtaken the U.S. in poultry exports, nearly matches the U.S. in soybean exports, and dominates global trade in frozen orange juice. To test and better understand these advances, we draw on decennial farm censuses to examine technical change and efficiency in Brazilian agriculture. Our approach is to estimate a stochastic, multi-product, output distance frontier, using a translog functional form and data disaggregated to the micro-region (sub-state) level. Using two consecutive decennial farm censuses, we combine state-level Fisher productivity-change indexes with state-level translog distance... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Brazil; Shephard distance function; Stochastic frontier; Technical change; Technical efficiency; International Development; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49317 |
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| Cross, Robin M.; Buccola, Steven T.; Thomann, Enrique A.. |
| In this article, we extend the variable delivery claim framework (Cross, Buccola, and Thomann, 2006) to examine the option-to-cheat, that is, the option to shift production between contracts ex post. We use this framework to provide a solution to the age-old conflict between enforcement and the cooperative tradition of providing a "home" for member produce. We show that, in contrast to Nourse's competitive yardstick hypothesis, the value of the cooperative-provided option increases as market competition intensifies. When the option-to-cheat is fairly-priced, it is Pareto improving, increasing grower returns, lowering cooperative per-unit costs and reducing contract shortfalls for investor-owned rivals at no additional per-unit cost. Our valuation... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21158 |
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| Buccola, Steven T.; Durham, Catherine A.; Gopinath, Munisamy; Henderson, Erin. |
| Firms selling products overseas may do so in a wide variety of ways, such a s through trading companies, foreign distributors, brokers, direct sales, license arrangements, and foreign direct investment. Many firms employ a portfolio of arrangements for each of their products. Using a share equation model, we examine the factors influencing food processing cooperatives' foreign business arrangements. Particularly important are the cooperative's financial resources and structure, risk exposure and risk preferences, information resources, and product types. Compared to investor-owned firms, we find that cooperatives have distinct disadvantages in investing or selling directly abroad, although the disadvantages are tempered by some equalizing considerations. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31166 |
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| Bitsch, Vera; Buccola, Steven T.. |
| The U.S. nursery industry is highly complex, and affected on their demand side by the construction industry and on their factor supply side by the market for low-skill labor, which in turn is influenced by gyrating construction activity as well as southern-border immigration. We examine an industry seeking to adapt to a changing demand and labor environment. Our emphasis is on the manner in which nurseries cope with increasing retailer power, increasingly quality- and variety-conscious consumers, and expectations of rising wages. We argue that the gradual growth of such labor aids as potting assembly belts and pruning equipment should be viewed in terms of a tradeoff among labor quantity, labor quality, and capital instead of the more conventional tradeoff... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61047 |
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| Buccola, Steven T.; Subaei, Abdelbagi. |
| Stochastic dominance methods lately have been used to derive efficient strategies for given risk aversion intervals. A new decision approach, which makes use of the Gini coefficient, is shown to represent effectively the preferences of weakly risk averse individuals. The approach also has distinct advantages over stochastic dominance analysis. An application is provided of farmers' choices among alternative co-operative pooling rules. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 1984 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22431 |
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| Buccola, Steven T.; Cornelius, James C.; Meyersick, Ron R.. |
| Marketing cooperatives often commingle farm products in a common payment pool. A member’s receipts from a pool depend upon the method the cooperative uses for valuing raw product patronage. The present article examines alternative patronage valuation methods with particular regard to their effect on the distribution of pool income. Principles of distributive equity are discussed and conditions shown under which a valuation rule would be equitable in the senses defined. The discussion is illustrated with a pool consisting of snap beans and sweet corn. It is shown that valuation rules differ in the means and variance of subsidies that they induce across products. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1989 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46218 |
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| Buccola, Steven T.. |
| The production or marketing portfolio that is optimal under the assumption of quadratic utility may or may not be optimal under the assumption of exponential utility. In certain cases, the necessary and sufficient condition for an identical solution is that absolute risk aversion coefficients associated with the two utility functions be the same. In other cases, equality of risk aversion coefficients is a sufficient condition only. A comparison is made between use of exponential and quadratic utility in the analysis of a California farmers marketing problem. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Marketing. |
| Ano: 1982 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32418 |
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| Buccola, Steven T.. |
| The notion of price efficiency is discussed in the context of an optimal information market. Approaches for assessing price or market efficiency are examined, including temporal, spatial, and form-transformation paradigms. The interdependent nature of these paradigms is stressed. Finally, a review is conducted of recent price efficiency research in cash, futures, and manufacturing-retailing markets. Research generally has paid inadequate attention to agents costs, including the cost of risk and the human capital cost of acquiring and evaluating information. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing. |
| Ano: 1989 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32461 |
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| Wang, Chenggang; Xia, Yin; Shoemaker, Robbin A.; Buccola, Steven T.. |
| The article presents a dynamic model of research investment. This model allows us to examine three important channels through which public investment policy can affect the private sector's research investment, that is, the productivity, replacement, and wage effects. Two alternative empirical approaches are introduced to implement the model. Through a unified examination of the productivity, replacement, and wage effects, the empirical estimation of this model will provide insight into whether public-sector research investment crowds in or crowds out private-sector research investment. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21330 |
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| Min, He; Gopinath, Munisamy; Buccola, Steven T.; McEvoy, Peter B.. |
| Many non-native insect, disease, and weed pests of food, fiber, and nursery crops pose threats to the U.S. environment, agricultural production, and exports. In this study we focus on regulations controlling the spread of noxious weeds, especially the regulatory differences among US states and investigate the determinants of such regulations. With a simple game-theoretic framework, we derive cross-state regulatory congruence as a function of ecological and agronomic characteristics and stakeholder lobbying through political contributions. Empirical results suggest ecological and agronomic dissimilarities drive large cross-state differences in noxious weed regulation across states. However, evidence of stakeholder interests in shaping these regulations is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21212 |
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