The Florida orange juice industry has experienced great challenges-declining orange juice consumption and a domestic supply shortage that has led to increasing imports over the past decade. As growers look for a foothold, the question remains whether it is better to continue promoting orange...

GST/VAT should apply to groceries in Canada. Misconceptions have led many Canadians to oppose taxing groceries or special interest groups to complain about the inequities inherent in taxing some food products but excluding others. With a broader GST base, for example by including groceries, the...

In the famous “orange juice puzzle,” a large amount of inexplicable price volatility arises in frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) futures contracts. Temperature is considered the most important fundamental factor in this market, but its explanatory power is low and limited, so are those...

Cider production and consumption is growing rapidly within the USA; however, only estimates exist regarding the output from craft cider operations. Alongside the growth of the craft, beer market in the USA has been a resurgence of interest in craft cideries; according to the United States...

The aim of the paper is to emphasize the dependence between the return of the futures price of the frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) and the variation of the temperature. Following Roll (1984) that proved that the market of frozen concentrated juice is influence by weather variable, we...

We discuss inference for additive models with random scaling factors. The additive effects are of the form (1+g)f(z) where f is a nonlinear function of the continuous covariate z modeled by P(enalized)-splines and 1+g is a random scaling factor. Additionally, monotonicity constraints on the...