Obesity is considered one of the largest public health problems in the United States today. The premise for our study is a body of results from medical research showing that sweetened foods, i.e., an increased consumption of sugars, leads first to sugar addiction and second to carbohydrate...

An econometric model of the barge and rail freight market is developed so that factors which influence barge and rail rates for export-bound grain from Midwest to Mexican Gulf can be better understood. Three-stage least squares method is used to estimate the system of four equations that...

The generality of the Cagan model for money demand is questioned. Some high inflationary economies are hit by external shocks that may have a non-transitory effect on macroeconomic variables including consumer prices, high-powered money, or narrow money which are usually used in these studies....

Because of reduced stockholding, Chinese domestic corn markets are becoming much more interdependent with the rest of the world. As China's economy continues to transition from centrally planned to market oriented, internal pressure for increased use of market mechanisms in trading corn and...

This paper analyses the degree of market integration in the retail gasoline markets in the United States after it was completely deregulated in 1981. The monthly average prices of unleaded regular gasoline, excluding taxes, from January 1983 to December of 1998 for five US Petroleum...

The objective is to determine the causes of the countercyclicality of the trade balance in five small open economies, namely Austria, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. In order to investigate the role of permanent and temporary changes in income in the determination of the trade balance,...

This study was conducted to analyze the direct and indirect effects of ethanol policy on livestock production. Results of the theoretical and empirical model indicate the possibility of ethanol policy affecting livestock production in the United States both directly and indirectly, via the...

In this article, the relationships among the dividend yield on the S&P 500 Index, the yield on the 10 year Treasury note, the price level of the S&P 500 Index, the money supply, the level of the Industrial Production Index (IPI) and the level of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) are examined using...

This study is conducted (1) to examine the possible link between increased trade openness and technical efficiency in Brazilian agriculture and (2) to contribute to the scholarly debate in the literature by measuring the impact of trade openness on technical efficiency. The analysis is conducted...