Browsing by Department "Agricultural Economics"
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This research explored the causal relationships among strategies, corporate structure, and performance of the largest U.S. non-financial firms using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). Corporate strategies and structure have ...
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(2013-11-27)A combination of time series models and causal search algorithms is applied to the foreign exchange markets to find causal linkages between the six most widely traded currencies (Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, euro, ...
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(2009-05-15)This study proposes one plausible procedure to address two methodological issues, which are common in micro- and macro- econometric analyses, for the full realization of research potential brought by recently available ...
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(2018-11-14)Water availability and favorable weather conditions can greatly improve crop yields. Absence of irrigation water or unfavorable weather conditions can cause damages to crops and farmer income. Focusing on two agriculturally ...
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(2018-08-05)This dissertation uses experimental economics methods and biometric tools to test for the consistency of individual preferences and analyze how such preferences are affected by states of cognitive impairment and resource ...
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(2010-07-14)The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the industry impact of a hypothetical Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the Texas High Plains using alternative animal tracing levels. To accomplish this objective, ...
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(2016-05-27)Most economic contribution studies for zoos run the Impact Analyses for PLANning (IMPLAN) model sector for museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks (Sector 493) without customizing it to a specific zoo. This research ...
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(2019-03-26)Investing in agriculture land has a new avenue with the initial public offerings of Gladstone Land Company and Farmland Partners Incorporated. In this paper, both companies are evaluated by their investment strategies and ...
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(2016-08-04)The Conservation Reserve Program was first established by the Food Security Act of 1985, with the primary purpose of preventing damage to highly erodible soils, made worse by intensified farming practices. Since its ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Genetic modification presents the potential to advance not only agricultural production but to increase quality of life as well. The potential this innovation presents will be irrelevant if the public is unwilling to ...
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(2016-08-03)Production and consumption of dairy alternative beverages in the United States has been on the rise as per capita consumption of fluid milk continues to fall. Almond milk is the fastest growing category in the U.S. dairy ...
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(2012-08-31)Stochastic Weather Generators (SWG) try to reproduce the stochastic patterns of climatological variables characterized by high dimensionality, non-normal probability density functions and non-linear dependence relationships. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The broad objective of this thesis involves investigation of the role agriculture might play in a society wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction effort. Specifically, the breakeven price for carbon emission offsets is ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)An improved understanding of the costs of diseases is obtained by conducting a case study of the costs associated with end stage renal disease (ESRD). In estimating the costs of ESRD, the costs incurred by both patients ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) provides added emphasis to the development of portfolio credit risk models. An important regulatory change in Basel II is the differentiated treatment in measuring capital requirements ...
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(2014-07-08)U.S. agricultural commodity prices have been volatile in recent years, attributed to many factors, including renewable fuel standard mandates (RFS). While the RFS is legislatively able to be altered, the mandate largely ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This study analyzes the economic and demographic patterns of at-home pork consumption for representative individuals over 18 years of age in the United States. Three data sets purchased by the National Pork Board (NPB) are ...
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(2013-07-23)Economic research on climate and productivity effects of ocean phenomena has mostly focused on interannual cases such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Here Decadal climate variability (DCV) refers to ocean related ...
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(2013-05-03)This thesis provides a unique perspective to the milk market relative to previous studies. While there is rich literature on the various sectors of the milk market, a contribution to this literature was made by providing ...
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(2021-04-27)Dairy products play an important role in the American diet. We analyzed the long-run and short-run demands for a granular array of dairy and dairy alternative products in the United States based on three essays, where three ...