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| Lei, Lei; Rickard, Bradley J.; Balagtas, Joseph Valdes; Krissoff, Barry. |
| Current U.S. farm programs make payments to farmers based in part on historical base acres planted in particular program crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat and soybeans. Eligibility for payments includes regulations on the crops allowed to be grown on base acres, and there are restrictions on planting horticultural crops on such base acres. The fruits and planting restriction on base acres has potentially influenced the number of acres planted to fruits and vegetables over the past two decades. This research carefully examines the effects of planting restrictions applied to vegetables and program crops, using county-level data in the United States in 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1997. The paper employs the difference-indifference (DiD) approach to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103992 |
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| Akter, Sonia; Bennett, Jeffrey W.. |
| The sources of preference uncertainty in contingent valuation (CV) studies have rarely been investigated from a theoretical standpoint. This paper proposes a holistic theoretical framework of preference uncertainty that combines microeconomic theory with the theories of cognitive psychology. Empirical testing of the proposed theoretical model was carried out in Australia in the context of a national ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)’ to be introduced in 2010. Two separate ordered probit models for a certainty score associated with CV ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ responses were estimated. The results of the estimated regression models provide evidence supporting the hypotheses drawn from the theoretical model. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Contingent valuation; Preference uncertainty; Cognitive uncertainty; Climate change; Australia. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47938 |
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| Brasili, Cristina; Fanfani, Roberto; Maccarini, Elisa Ricci; Monasterolo, Irene. |
| In the last years, a lot of important changes occurred inside the European Union after the entering of 12 new member States. The rate of economic growth of the new member States has been higher the other EU members. In Hungary, particularly, the growth level has reached an intermediate position, placing itself at 4% GDP per capita. Comparative analysis are needed to better understand the process of catching-up and to evaluate how the integration between EU regions and countries is going on. The aim of this paper is to compare the economic and efficiency performance of firms in Hungary and Emilia-Romagna, considering a specific sector, meat processing and storage, of the food industry). We will investigate if in the last years the integration process has... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Firms financial-economic performances; Stochastic production function; Agri-food districts; Meat processing industry; Hungarian and Emilia-Romagna food industry; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7845 |
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| De Devitiis, Biagia; D'Alessio, Massimiliano; Maietta, Ornella Wanda. |
| Objective of this paper is to analyse the motivations in the purchase of Fair Trade (FT) food products sold in the World Shops (WS) in order to characterize WS consumer profiles according to the ethical content of their motivations. A questionnaire has been distributed, at this end, to a sample of consumers in Emilia Romagna, Puglia and in Campania. A principal component analysis has been performed in order to identify the main motivations in the purchase. On the basis of these results, consumers have been classified, by applying a cluster analysis, in homogenous segments. The cluster analysis reveals that 76% of consumers in Emilia Romagna buy FT products for an ethical motivation, 56% of consumers in Puglia and 43% of consumers in Campania buy these... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Ethical consumer; Fair trade; Social capital; Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44148 |
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| Hamm, Sandra J.; Goodwin, Harold L., Jr.; McKenzie, Andrew M.. |
| Input prices for broiler production, particularly corn, are becoming increasingly volatile due to increasing competition for corn from ethanol and biofuels production suggesting volatility in poultry profits will follow indicator of profits relating feed input prices and broiler meat output prices, such as a Broiler:corn ratios. Total chicken exports, total chicken ready-to-cook production, number of eggs set, number of chicks placed, and cold storage chicken inventory are used to estimate. Utilizing a distributed lag model, seventeen years of data for three Broiler:corn ratios, broiler exports, egg set, chick placements, cold storage stocks, and ready-to-cook broiler production were utilized to estimate stock share price for four major broiler producers. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6665 |
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| Mo, Lijia. |
| This study examined whether the efficiency measures were invariant to choice of parametric and nonparametric methods for a sample of 183 wheat farms. The efficiency measures from the deterministic parametric method were smaller than those from the deterministic method. There was a trade-off between scale efficiency and economic efficiency. In the deterministic nonparametric method, the economic efficiency, scale efficiency and overall efficiency results were invariant to the number of inputs or the dimensionality. Only allocative and pure technical efficiency measures depended on the dimensionality. This work illustrated the importance of holding curvature for the cost function in stochastic frontier results. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Efficiency analysis; Deterministic nonparametric method; Parametric stochastic frontier; Production Economics; Q11. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56427 |
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| Dahlgran, Roger A.. |
| Agribusinesses make long-term plant-investment decisions based on discounted cash flow. It is therefore incongruous for an agribusiness firm to use cash flow as a plant-investment criterion and then to completely discard cash flow in favor of batch profits as an operating objective. This paper assumes that cash flow and its stability are important to commodity processors and examines methods for hedging cash flows under continuous processing. Its objectives are (a) to determine how standard hedging models should be modified to hedge cash flows, (b) to outline the differences between cash flow hedging and profit hedging, and (c) to determine the effectiveness of hedging in reducing cash flow variability. A cash flow hedging methodology is developed.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Marketing. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19007 |
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| Di Rubbo, P.; Canali, Gabriele. |
| Trade relations between developed and developing countries are one of the hot topics of the ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. The conclusion of the Cotonou Agreement between EU and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, the introduction of the EU’s Everything But Arms initiative for the least developed countries and the United States’ African Growth and Opportunity Act for 39 African Countries, represents tangible incentives for many developing countries to continue their efforts to open their economies and build free markets. This paper analyzes the trade creating effects of EU and US trade policies as total effect, for agri-food products of developing countries in a gravity model framework. Data refer to a 10 year period: 1996-2005.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Gross Trade Creation; Agricultural Trade Policy; Developed and Developing Countries; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43961 |
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| Loomis, John B.; Asmus, Cheryl; Bell, Paul. |
| The objective of this research was to estimate adults' willingness to pay to reduce health risks to their or other families's infants, the latter to test for altruism. A choice experiment was conducted by having adults pay for bottled water for infants to reduce infants' exposure to nitrates in drinking water. Since nitrates only affect infants' health, we have isolated the adults' willingness to pay just for infants' health by buying bottled water to avoid infants' nitrate intake. Respondents were separated into two treatments, one with hypothetical choices, and the other where respondents were told that one of their four choices would be binding, and they would actually buy bottled water using money given to them at the beginning of the experiment.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Altruism; Conjoint; Drinking water; Validity; Willingness to pay; Health Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9358 |
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| Andersen, Matthew A.; Alston, Julian M.. |
| This study compares two panel data sets that measure capital input at the state-level in U.S. agriculture. Despite a number of similarities between the data sets, such as the composition of assets, aggregation procedures, and time frame, an examination of the final estimates of capital service flows reveals that they are drastically different for all 48 contiguous states. We examine the methods used to construct the capital series for each data set, consider some important differences in data sources and the types of data used to construct the capital measures, and outline the main assumptions concerning depreciation, service lives, interest rates, aggregation, and the scope of goods included in each of the data sets. The analysis indicates that an... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20153 |
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