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Antitrust analysis of supermarkets: global concerns playing out in local markets

Cotterill, Ronald W. - 2006

This paper reviews the basic components of antitrust analysis for the supermarketindustry, including definition of product and geographic markets and the measurementof market power. The analysis of prices and profits in a market structure contextremains important, especially in countries such as...

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Economics and climate applications: exploring the frontier.

Rubas, Debra J.; Hill, Harvey S.J.; Mjelde, James W. - 2006

information, nor are differences between the methods clearly definable. Examples of previous studies using each methodology are …

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Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.

Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. - 2009

The Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture conducts a national inventory of fine woody debris (FWD); however, the sampling protocols involve tallying only the number of FWD pieces by size class that intersect a sampling transect with no...

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An alternative method to produce prices received estimates.

Donaldson, W.W.; Klugh, B.F. Jr. - 1988

The United States Department of Agriculture has issued statistics on prices received by farmers since 1866. Beginning in 1924, prices received were collected as of the middle of the month instead of the first of the month. In this research analysis both univariate and transfer function...

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Off-farm labour and the structure of US agriculture: the case of corn/soybean farms.

Nehring, Richard; Banker, David - 2005

While the growing importance of off-farm earnings suggests large benefits accrue to farmers from efforts to expand off-farm income opportunities, economic well being also depends on greater efficiency. To comprehensively gauge the economic health of farm operator households' off-farm income is...

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Implementing the measurement interval midpoint method for change estimation.

Westfall, James A.; Frieswyk, Thomas; Griffith, Douglas M. - 2009

change is unaffected by the new methodology. …

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Statistical evaluation of median estimators for lognormally distributed variables.

Parkin, T.B.; Robinson, J.A. - 1993

The increased interest in the variability of soil properties is responsible for recent observations that soil variables are not normally distributed but are more closely approximated by the two-parameter lognormal frequency distribution. Statistical methods commonly applied in the estimation of...

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Decision support systems for forest management: A financial analysis for South Carolina's state forests.

Phillips, S.L.; Straka, T.J.; Post, C.J.; Adams, T.O. - 2006

specifically to South Carolina's state forests system, the alternatives and methodology have broad implications to medium and large …

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Empirical evaluation of a service analysis and design methodology

Korthaus, Axel; Kohlborn, Thomas; Rosemann, Michael; … - 2009

, consolidated service analysis and design methodology. A challenge in design-oriented research is to evaluate the utility of the … newly created artefacts (here: the methodology), as they are often intended to become part of complex socio …-technical systems. Therefore, after presenting a brief overview of the consolidated methodology, the paper discusses possible approaches …

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How do we reach them? Comparing random samples from mobile and landline phones

Steffens, Paul R.; Tonelli, Marcello; Davidsson, Per - 2011

Quantitative studies of nascent entrepreneurs such as GEM and PSED are required to generate their samples by screening the adult population, usually by phone in developed economies. Phone survey research has recently been challenged by shifting patterns of ownership and response rates of...

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