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TECHNOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE IN MEAT PROCESSING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Xia,   Yin; Buccola,   Steven T.
We develop a general model of processing cost, output demand, and factor demand in the U.S. meat processing industries, allowing for capital quasi-fixity and imperfectly competitive pricing.  The model is used to analyze the sources and nature of size economies and technical change in the meat sector.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2000
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21862

Rent-Seeking in Noxious Weed Regulations: Evidence from US States
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

Uncovering Productivity Growth in the Disaggregate:  Indonesia's Dueling Agricultural Sub-Sectors
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rada,   Nicholas E.; Buccola,   Steven T.; Fuglie,   Keith O.
The success of seed-fertilizer technologies and government subsidies in attaining nearly self-sufficient rice production in the mid-1980s encouraged the Indonesian government soon afterward to shift resources away from food crops and toward export-oriented crops.  These shifts were reinforced by trade liberalization and a sharp devaluation of the rupiah after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which exerted Indonesia’s comparative advantage in tropical perennial products.  In the present paper, we ask whether such events have altered Indonesia’s agricultural growth strategy from a food-crop to an export-crop one.  With an innovative multi-output stochastic distance frontier model and provincial production and policy-related data from 1985 to 2005, we...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultural research; Indonesia; Shephard distance function; Stochastic frontier; Technical change; Technical efficiency; International Development; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61021

R&amp;D INVESTMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN U.S. AND CANADIAN FOOD MANUFACTURING
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Chan-Kang,   Connie; Buccola,   Steven T.
Productivity growth in the Canadian processed food industry has lagged behind that in the United States because of a relatively low rate of R&amp;D investment.  Although U.S. firms generally have a technological advantage over Canadian firms, marginal rates of return to R&amp;D are higher in Canada.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 1998
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20880

Immigration and Agricultural Labor Market: A Case Study of Oregon Nursery
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Li,   Cheng; Buccola,   Steven T.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61740

UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE DESIGN OF BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Yang,   Hui; Buccola,   Steven T.
The central objective of the present paper is to examine how university bioscientists select their research agendas, with special attention to biotechnology firms' influence on those agendas.  Among other issues, we will assess UIRs' potential effects on the private appropriability of the characteristics of bioengineered crop and animal varieties, and on the basicness and breadth of a scientist's research.  Factors that potentially would affect scientists' research agenda include the university's size, reputation, resources, culture, and total government funding; the scientist's academic position and communication network; and the market power, cultures, and specialties of the biotech firms with which the university has research relationships.  An...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O31; O32; O33.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21985

Technical Barriers to Interstate Trade: Noxious Weed Regulations
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Gopinath,   Munisamy; Min,   He; Buccola,   Steven T.
We focus on regulations controlling the spread of noxious weeds, especially the trade effects of regulatory differences across U.S. states. We specify a gravity model for each state’s seed, nursery product, and commodity trade with each other state. Within the gravity model, we examine the role of cross-state regulatory congruence arising from ecological and agronomic characteristics and interest-group lobbying. A spatial-autoregressive Tobit model is estimated with a modified expectation-maximization algorithm. Results show that weed regulatory congruence positively affects interstate trade. By fostering cross-state regulatory differences, consumer and commodity-producer lobbying reduce the value of interstate trade by about two percent per annum.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Interstate trade; Invasive species; Rent-seeking; Agribusiness; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Land Economics/Use; Political Economy; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; F1; H7; Q5.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100527

Brazil's Rising Agricultural Productivity and World Competitiveness
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

Pool Payment Equity in Agricultural Marketing Cooperatives
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

Public Investment Policy in Life-Science Research
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

AN E-V ANALYSIS OF PRICING ALTERNATIVES FOR LONG-TERM MARKETING CONTRACTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Buccola,   Steven T.; French,   Ben C.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Marketing.
Ano: 1977
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/30522

A U.S. REGIONAL MODEL OF FEEDER STEER-HEIFER PRICE DIFFERENTIALS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Buccola,   Steven T.; Jessee,   David L.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 1979
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/29557

PORTFOLIO SELECTION UNDER EXPONENTIAL AND QUADRATIC UTILITY
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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 farmer’s marketing problem.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Marketing.
Ano: 1982
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32418

Labor and Technology Change in the Nursery Industry
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF ACTIVITY CHOICE, LABOR ALLOCATION, AND FOREST USE IN SOUTHERN MALAWI
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

IMPLICATIONS OF FEEDER PIG PRICE VARIABILITY IN VIRGINIA TELE-AUCTION MARKETS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Baum,   Kenneth; Buccola,   Steven T.; Fisher,   Peter.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 1982
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/29588

Brazilian Agricultural Productivity and Policy
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Rada,   Nicholas E.; Buccola,   Steven T.
Replaced with revised version of poster 07/29/11.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Brazilian agriculture; Embrapa; Input distance function; Stochastic frontier; Total factor productivity; Technical change; Efficiency; International Development; Productivity Analysis; O2; O3.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103326

ARE BASIC SCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Xia,   Yin; Buccola,   Steven T.
Enhancing agricultural productivity depends greatly on the management of information flows between basic and applied research.  A framework is developed to examine the mutual relationship between molecular biological research and agricultural biotechnology innovations.  Preliminary results provide a basis for university decision-making in both the short and long run.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20575

FOOD MANUFACTURING COOPERATIVES' OVERSEAS BUSINESS PORTFOLIOS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

PRICING EFFICIENCY IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS:  ISSUES, METHODS, AND RESULTS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

Cooperation and Cheating
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

THE ROLE OF MARKET PRICE-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS IN OPTIMAL BEEF CATTLE BACKGROUNDING PROGRAMS
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Buccola,   Steven T.; Bentley,   Ernest; Jessee,   Warren B.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 1980
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/29403

What Drives Academic Bioscientists: Money or Values?
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Nag,   Sharmistha; Yang,   Hui; Buccola,   Steven T.; Ervin,   David E.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O31–O34; O38.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/94773

MEAN-GINI ANALYSIS, STOCHASTIC EFFICIENCY AND WEAK RISK AVERSION
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: 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

The Demand for Wines: Variety and Region Effects
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Buccola,   Steven T.; Zanden,   Loren Vander.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis.
Ano: 1997
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/35765

Welfare Effects of Technological Convergence in the Food Industries
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Ruan,   Jun; Gopinath,   Munisamy; Buccola,   Steven T.
In this paper we investigate the welfare effects of technological convergence in the food industries.  We extend Krugman's (1980) monopolistic competition model to allow for technological differences between two (groups of) countries.  Technological convergence is reflected in a narrowing inter-country gap between fixed or marginal production cost, and the effects of convergence on output composition, factor rewards, trade pattern, and consumer welfare are derived.  The theoretical predictions are examined and confirmed using an internationally comparable dataset.
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/21373