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The Impact of Catfish Imports on the U.S. Wholesale and Farm Sectors

Muhammad, Andrew; Neal, Sammy J.; Hanson, Terrill R.; … - 2010

The primary objective of this study was to assess the impact of catfish imports and tariffs on the U.S. catfish industry, with particular focus on the U.S. International Trade Commission ruling on Vietnam in 2003. Given the importance of Vietnam to the U.S. catfish market, it was assumed that...

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Malaria and National Income: Examining a Two Way Causal Relationship

Datta, Saurabh; Reimer, Jeffrey J. - 2010

Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...

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ENERGIA RENOVÁVEL: UMA ANÁLISE SOBRE OFERTA E DEMANDA DE ETANOL NO BRASIL

Oliveira, Michelle Pinto; Alencar, Junia Rodrigues De; … - 2008

A grande necessidade de diminuir a dependência em relação ao petróleo devido aos seus preços em constante elevação, a preocupação com o meio ambiente (protocolo de kyoto) e a crescente demanda por carros flex tem colocado o etanol - uma energia totalmente renovável - em papel de...

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Forecasting Inter and Intra Regional Transmission Line Power Flows In both Radial and Meshed Electrical Networks

Peard, A. S.; Saha, Tapan K.; Sansom, D. C. - 2002

In this paper, we present the results of two methods developed to forecast cutset (intra-regional transmission line) power flows. The first method involving neural network load forecasting and simultaneous equations can only be applied to radial electricity networks. This method was applied to...

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Capital flows to Latin American countries: effects of foreign direct investment and remittances on growth and development

Jansen, Dennis W. (contributor) - 2007

The significant restructuring of international capital flows to developingcountries – in particular to Latin American countries – observed in the last quartercentury has generated significant research in the area to examine its potential impact ondevelopment efforts. The resurgence of...

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Dynamic Portfolio Construction and Portfolio Risk Measurement

Mazibas, Murat - 2011

is modelled using extreme value theory and the joint density of hedge fund index returns is constructed using a copula …

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Modeling Dependence in the Design of Whole Farm---A Copula-Based Model Approach

Zhu, Ying; Ghosh, Sujit K.; Goodwin, Barry K. - 2008

preserves a given set of marginals, a copula approach can be used to characterize the joint yield and price risk of corn and … soybeans, which are usually highly correlated. The copula approach has been spurred by the recent developments in the whole …. As a part of the study, various copula models are investigated for their suitability in modeling yield and price risks …

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Modelling farm production risk with copulae instead of correlations

Schulte-Geers, Matthias; Berg, Ernst - 2011

. In financial science, copula functions are frequently used insteadof correlation coefficients to model joint price … less use of thismethod. This research uses the concept of “partly nested Archimedean copula” to model therelationship …

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On the Systemic Nature of Weather Risk

Xu, Wei; Filler, Gunther; Odening, Martin; Okhrin, Ostap - 2009

conditions in different locations.For that purpose copula methods are employed that allow an adequate descriptionof stochastic …

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On the Systemic Nature of Weather Risk

Xu, Wei; Filler, Gunther; Odening, Martin; Okhrin, Ostap - 2009

conditions in different locations. For that purpose copula methods are employed that allow an adequate description of stochastic …

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