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| Schmit, Todd M.; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| A hedonic cost function is used to isolate the operation and maintenance costs for water treatments. For small systems, costs are substantial for some technologies, but not for others. When regional differences in input costs are accounted for, small systems located in rural areas may have a cost advantage over similar systems closer to urban centers; however, costs of water treatment to meet Safe Drinking Water Act amendments may still be substantial. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31560 |
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| Guo, Xiang-Yu; Yu, Zhi-Gang; Schmit, Todd M.; Henehan, Brian M.; Li, Dan. |
| China prioritized a New Socialist Countryside reform policy in 2005 to address the growing disparities in incomes and living standards between rural and urban populations. These policies are evaluated to provide a base line index of reform concerning farmer, agricultural, and rural economic development. Aggregate index scores are computed to rank provincial progress. Rankings indicate the progression of rural economic reform is moderate, at best, and mostly isolated to well-developed eastern provinces. Reform growth is also uneven across similarly, rural provinces indicating a need for continued attention in these poorer areas. More importantly, as reform efforts continue, the empirical framework established can be used to track relative performance over... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: China; Factor Analysis; New Socialist Countryside; Policy Evaluation; International Development; Political Economy; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49002 |
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| Boisvert, Richard N.; Schmit, Todd M.. |
| An understanding of the diversity of community water systems (CWS) in the United States is essential when evaluating the financial implications of the 1986 and subsequent amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). This diversity, in terms of size, primary water source, ownership, and existing levels of treatment, shape the nature of the technical, institutional, and financial issues that must be confronted in moving these systems toward compliance with SDWA regulations. This report provides a descriptive summary of these operating and design characteristics ofCWS's across the country. The data are organized to help provide a typology of representative public water systems that can be examined to better understand the regional effects of policy... |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122989 |
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| Schmit, Todd M.; Kaiser, Harry M.. |
| A model of the domestic demand for eggs was estimated from quarterly data over the period 1987 through 1995, incorporating an index of consumer dietary cholesterol concerns and generic advertising efforts by the American Egg Board and the California Egg Commission. Empirical results indicated that most of the observed change in egg demand could be explained by dietary cholesterol concerns. Simulating the model in a constant elasticity supply framework demonstrated that advertising efforts over the past several years have resulted in net benefits to egg producers largely when considering inelastic supply responses. However, considering trade bias reduces these benefit-cost ratios substantially. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31510 |
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| Lesser, William H.; Schmit, Todd M.; Ruiz, Lilian M.. |
| Advances in agricultural biotechnology have led to interest by agribusiness to license elite germplasm from national programs in developing countries, now in need of funds. Uncertainties about the value of the material have delayed negotiations. This article proposes a method of setting upper (monopoly; no seed saving) and lower (competitive) negotiating bounds on values. The model accounts for (1) annual productivity enhancements, (2) effects on world prices, and (3) obsolescence effects of greater R&D. A demonstration application for soybeans in Brazil, which has completed the preconditions (IPR, biosafety, internal policy), suggests limited private value for public germplasm. The optimal solution is cooperation (licensing). |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/34233 |
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| LeRoux, Matthew N.; Schmit, Todd M.; Roth, Monika; Streeter, Deborah H.. |
| An investigation of the relative costs and benefits of marketing channels used by typical smallscale diversified vegetable crop producers is conducted. Using case study evidence from four small farms in Central New York, this study compares the performance of wholesale and direct marketing channels, including how the factors of risk, owner and paid labor, price, lifestyle preferences, and sales volume interact to impact optimal market channel selection. Given the highly perishable nature of the crops grown, along with the risks and potential sales volume of particular channels, a combination of different marketing channels is needed to maximize overall firm performance. Accordingly, a ranking system is developed to summarize the major firm-specific factors... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Local food; Marketing; Wholesale; Direct; Marketing channels; Economic evaluation; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Demand and Price Analysis; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49006 |
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| LeRoux, Matthew N.; Schmit, Todd M.; Roth, Monika; Streeter, Deborah H.. |
| An investigation of the relative costs and benefits of marketing channels used by typical small-scale diversified vegetable crop producers is conducted. Using case study evidence from four small farms in Central New York, this study compares the performance of wholesale and direct marketing channels, including how the factors of risk, owner and paid labor, price, lifestyle preferences, and sales volume interact to impact optimal market channel selection. Given the highly perishable nature of the crops grown, along with the risks and potential sales volume of particular channels, a combination of different marketing channels is needed to maximize overall firm performance. Accordingly, a ranking system is developed to summarize the major firm-specific... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Marketing channel; Small-scale; Fruit and vegetable producers; Case study; Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries; Financial Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49044 |
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| Preszler, Trent L.; Schmit, Todd M.. |
| Substantial industry and winery efforts in recent years have centered on improving access of New York wines into upscale restaurants in New York City (NYC), albeit with limited success. A survey of upscale restaurants and wine stores in NYC was conducted to identify important attributes influencing wine purchase decisions and to better understand the primary factors affecting the level of New York wines included on restaurant wine lists. Larger restaurants with higher entrée prices and a larger dependence on wine sales were shown to include fewer New York wines, while restaurants serving higher proportions of Riesling, Cabernet Franc, and domestic wines included more. A wine’s collective regional and varietal reputation was found to influence overall wine... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99488 |
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| Schmit, Todd M.; Dong, Diansheng; Chung, Chanjin; Kaiser, Harry M.; Gould, Brian W.. |
| A two-step model with sample selection is applied to panel data of U.S. households to estimate at-home demand for fluid milk and cheese, incorporating advertising expenditures. The model consistently accounts for sample-selection bias, unobserved household heterogeneity, and temporal correlation. Generic advertising programs for fluid milk and cheese were effective at increasing conditional purchase quantities, with very little effect on the probability of purchase. In contrast to aggregate studies, the long-run generic advertising elasticities for cheese were larger than for those of fluid milk. Advertising response varied considerably across sub-product classes, while branded advertising expenditures were largely insignificant. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31088 |
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| Schmit, Todd M.; Chung, Chanjin; Dong, Diansheng; Kaiser, Harry M.; Gould, Brian W.. |
| A two-step sample selection model is used to estimate household demand equations for fluid milk and cheese products incorporating national generic advertising. This approach allows us to disentangle the incidence of the advertising effect on the probability of purchase and changes in the level of consumption. Generic advertising for fluid milk had a predominantly intensive effect on athome fluid milk demand, implying that advertising was relatively more effective at increasing the consumption of current consumers. Conversely, the at-home cheese demand response to generic cheese advertising was almost exclusively extensive, with virtually the entire increase in quantity demanded due to an increase in the household’s probability of purchase. |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122642 |
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