Motivated to explore sustainability of renewable energy from bio-waste, this study attempted to discover the economic feasibility of effectively utilizing the existing agricultural waste to generate bio-energy, to complement local nucleus business by meeting specific market demands while...

Purpose – For over 20 years, decoupled agricultural support programs have played a large role in farm policy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of decoupled agricultural support payments on farm-level debt. Design/methodology/approach – A two-stage least squares model...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of S&P 500 index fund money flow on the valuations of companies that are constituents of the index and those that are not. Design/methodology/approach – To examine the impact of passive investing on corporate valuations, the...

A project was designed with a supermarket with an objective to encourage the development of a community environment supportive of lifestyles that could reduce residents risk for obesity and cancer in a small community to provide point of sale signs or nudges. These signs encouraged consumers to...

We use a finite mixture model to identify latent submarkets from household demographics that estimates a separate hedonic regression equation for each submarket. The method is a relatively robust empirical tool to extract submarkets from demographic information with far less effort than...

Empirical results provide support for policy efforts to increase the accessibility of health care services that are targeted to areas with low mammography screening rates, high obesity rates, high smoking prevalence, as well as areas near Native American reservation territories. </AbstractSection> Copyright...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of S&P 500 index fund money flow on the valuations of companies that are constituents of the index and those that are not. Design/methodology/approach – To examine the impact of passive investing on corporate valuations, the...