Economists’ principal tool for studying household behavioral responses to changes in tax and other government policies, and the magnitude and determinants of private saving, is the life—cycle model. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to incorporate into that model one of the most...

A whole-farm simulation model is used to analyze the impacts of PST adoption on representative farms in Missouri and Indiana. Farmers who do not adopt experience lower average annual net cash farm incomes than adopters. Lower feed prices and/or an average PST/feed response decrease the incentive...

This paper examines the critical factors for the effective adoption and use of forecasting support systems (FSS) in product forecasting. The adoption of FSS has proved slow and difficult, and their use ineffective. In this paper, using the technologies-in-practice model developed by Orlikowski,...