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The focus of this study was to learn more about a critical commodity market participant, the long term speculator. The speculator's activity broadens a market, creates essential liquidity, and performs an irreplaceable pricing function. Working knowledge of the profiles, motivations, and modes...

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A trade simulation analysis of the impacts of United States trade barriers on selected Taiwanese agricultural exports

Bernstein, Boaz - 1992

The main purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate how liberalization of agricultural markets, as emerged from the … liberalization in selected agricultural processed products of importance in U.S.-Taiwanese trade. … agricultural sector and fully abolish trade restrictions on agricultural imports. The second estimates the impact of trade …

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Institutional Structure in Corporate Agriculture

Bhutani, Niti - 2010

In this dissertation, a state-contingent, principal-agent model is developed to examine the institution of input provision by a corporate firm that contracts with agents for the production of a given commodity. "Input provision" entails not only the provision and delivery of key inputs by the...

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Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level

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