The New Mexico State University, which is denominated as New Mexico's “Land Grant Universityâ€, is formed by more than 24,000 students within its five sites throughout the state of New Mexico. The main site, which is located in the bicultural city of Las Cruces, houses around 16,000...

The New Mexico State University, which is denominated as New Mexico's “Land Grant Universityâ€, is formed by more than 24,000 students within its five sites throughout the state of NewMexico. The main site, which is located in the bicultural city of Las Cruces, houses around 16,000...

Purpose – The purpose of this is study is to identify sources of demand growth for apparel in the US based on consumer demographic profiles, regions, and product characteristics. Design/methodology/approach – A two‐step procedure was utilized to model, estimate, and analyze purchasing...

The relative importance of income earning potential versus consumptive values in setting ranchland prices is examined using a truncated hedonic model. The market value of New Mexico ranches is related to annual income earning potential and other ranch characteristics including ranch size,...

The performance of a proposed asymmetric-error GARCH model is evaluated in comparison to the normal-error- and Student-t-GARCH models through three applications involving forecasts of U.S. soybean, sorghum, and wheat prices. The applications illustrate the relative advantages of the proposed...

This article examines the flexibility of the Johnson system of distributions by assessing its per-formance in terms of modeling crop yields for the purpose of setting actuarially fair crop in-surance premiums. Using data from corn farms in Illinois coupled with Monte Carlo simula-tion...

This article revisits the issue of crop-yield distributions using improved model specifications, estimation, and testing procedures that address the concerns raised in recent literature, which could have invalidated previous findings of yield nonnormality. It concludes that some aggregate and...