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External Validity of Hypothetical Surveys and Laboratory Experiments

Chang, Jae Bong; Lusk, Jayson L.; Norwood, F. Bailey - 2008

We compare the ability of three preference elicitation methods (hypothetical choices, non-hypothetical choices, and non-hypothetical rankings) and three discrete-choice econometric models (the multinomial logit, the independent availability logit, and the random parameter logit) to predict...

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Do Consumers Really Care about Biotech Food Label? What Do We Know? What Else Should We Know?

Chen, Xi; Zhong, Funing; Zhou, Bin - 2008

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...

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THE IMPACT OF PETROLEUM PRICES ON VEGETABLE OILS PRICES: EVIDENCE FROM COINTEGRATION TESTS

Awad Abdel Hameed, Amna; Mohamed Arshad, Fatimah - 2008

This paper investigate the long-term relationship between the petroleum and vegetable oils prices represented by palm, soybean, sunflower and rapeseed oils prices. To that end, the bivariate cointegration approach using Engle-Granger two-stage estimation procedure is applied. The study utilises...

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State Funded Marketing and Promotional Activities to Support a State's Winery Business; Are There Economic Returns?: A Case study using Texas Senate Bill 1370's support of the Texa...

Hanagriff, Roger D.; Lau, Michael H.; Rogers, Sarah L. - 2009

Texas wineries responded to a survey regarding their participation in wine marketing activities, annual changes in … allocate annually $725,000 to marketing and promotion of Texas wine. Combining the $725,000 and the normal funding of $250 … the Texas wine industry and attribute 49 percent of the increase to state marketing efforts. A portion of TDA marketing …

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Production Contracts and the Spot Market Price of Hogs

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

The increasing use of production contracts in the hog sector has reduced the number of spot market transactions, raised concerns about price manipulation and helped to spur legislation requiring price reporting by packers. Using data from the 2002 and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture, this study...

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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival

Key, Nigel D. - 2010

In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...

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Testing Asymmetric Price Transmission in the Vertical Supply Chain in De-regulated RiceMarkets in Bangladesh

Alam, Mohammad Jahangir; Begum, Ismat Ara; Buysse, Jeroen; … - 2010

marketing chain to correct the market inefficiency, if needed. The vertical price leadership at the wholesale level to theretail … in the marketing literature is inferred but not empirically verified. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to fill up this …

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The Effect of Prior Gains and Losses on Current Risk-Taking Using Quantile Regression

Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - 2009

This paper investigates the dynamics of sequential decision-making in agricultural futures andoptions markets using a quantile regression framework. Analysis of trading records of 12 traderssuggests that there is great heterogeneity in individual trading behavior. Traders responddifferently to...

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Does Futures Price Volatility Differ Across Delivery Horizon?

Karali, Berna; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Thurman, Walter N. - 2009

We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different delivery horizons via the smoothed Bayesian estimatorof Karali, Dorfman, and Thurman (2010). We show that the futures price volatilitiesin these markets are affected by the...

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Evaluating the Dynamic Nature of Market Risk

Hubbs, Todd; Kuethe, Todd H.; Baker, Timothy G. - 2009

This study examines the systematic risk present in major crops for the United States andthree corn-belt states. An index of commodities is used in conjunction with cash receiptsto generate dynamic estimates of the systematic risk for each crop and state. In our study,we find that beta estimates...

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