Browsing by Author "Bessler, David"
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Sánchez Aragón, Leonardo F (2014-04-07)In this dissertation we address practical issues in designing weather insurance contracts for risk management in developing countries in three different scenarios. First, we develop an innovative contract design strategy ...
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Kibriya, Shahriar (2012-02-14)In 2000, the World Bank estimated that 2.8 billion people lived on incomes of less than $2.00 a day. Meanwhile about forty percent of the world's population endured conflict, most of them from the same subset. The ...
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Li, Yarui (2013-12-04)The housing market plays a significant role in shaping the economic and social well-being of U.S. households. It helps spur U.S. economic growth when house prices rise, and drags the economic growth when house prices drop. ...
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Analysis of Whole Milk vs. Low-Fat Milk Consumption Among WIC Children Before Programmatic Changes Bayar, Emine (2011-08-08)The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is one of the food assistance programs targeted at low-income women, infants and children up to age five by providing foods, nutrition ...
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Reynolds, Kenneth R (2015-04-15)The economic analysis of athletic success on contributions for university athletic departments is studied through panel regression, and panel vector auto regression, along with dynamics through directed acyclical graphs, ...
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Bethapudi, Daniel Naveen (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)In this thesis we study characterize the dynamic relationships among two electricity price variables (residential and commercial) and six regional economic variables in order to examine each individual variable??s role in ...
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Econometric Methods to Analyze Consumer Behavior Using Hypothetical and Non-hypothetical Approaches Collart Dinarte, Alba Jeanette (2013-11-22)This dissertation examines consumer behavior using hypothetical and non-hypothetical approaches. Across the study, emphasis is made on brand awareness and Willingness-to-Pay (WTP) measures of consumer preferences and the ...
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Cain, Stephen Hartman (2019-07-12)In this thesis, we develop a stochastic simulation model with risk that simulates pricing and costs for the purpose of deriving profit per acre for a U.S. aerial applicator. Given the high startup and maintenance cost ...
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Fuller, Stephen; MacDonald, James; Bessler, David; Wohlgenant, Michael (Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1988)
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Hardcastle, Mark Jeffery (2015-10-26)There do not exist widely accepted guidelines or standards for identification and removal of outlying data in empirical research. There are sometimes significant incentives for researchers to discover particular research ...
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Zhang, Yu (2012-10-19)The objectives of foreign aid are closely associated with the global political and economic issues during the last 60 years. In recent years foreign aid flows have been considerably influenced by international terrorism. ...
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Kim, Hyung Jin (2010-10-12)This dissertation investigates the latent but critical effects of risk attitude on competitive success in construction applying an evolutionary approach. The approach considers contractors as individual entities competing ...
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Chavez, Marissa Joyce (2009-06-02)The efficiency of commodity futures markets is a widely debated topic in academia. The cotton futures market is no exception. The existence of trends in the futures market is characterized as a price bias, which is a ...
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Dan, Sujan Mathew (2009-05-15)New product introductions rely on technologies that are often subject to strongly contested standards wars. In an attempt to ensure that the technical formats that their products are built upon, are the ones that gain ...
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Gu, Jingping (2009-05-15)This dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the possible asymmetric response of gasoline prices to crude oil price changes using an error correction model with GARCH errors. Recent papers have looked ...
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Xu, Jin (2013-05-20)This dissertation consists of three essays wherein tools of financial econometrics are used to study the three aspects of farmland valuation puzzle: short-term boom-bust cycles, overpricing of farmland, and inconclusive ...
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Aisabokhae, Ruth 1980- (2012-12-05)Climate factors like precipitation and temperature, being closely intertwined with agriculture, make a changing climate a big concern for the entire human race and its basic survival. Adaptation to climate is a long-running ...
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Wang, Wen-Yao (2009-05-15)My research focuses on the reasons for banking crises and the corresponding policy rules that could help prevent such crises. This abstract briefly reviews the two essays in my dissertation. The first essay focuses on the ...
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Alviola IV, Pedro A. (2011-02-22)This dissertation has four interrelated studies, namely (1) the characterization of milk purchase choices which included the purchase of organic milk, both organic and conventional milk and conventional milk only; (2) the ...
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Dang, Trang Phuong Th 1977- (2012-11-28)Markets have always changed in response to either exogenous or endogenous shocks. Many large events have occurred in financial and energy markets the last ten years. This dissertation examines market behavior and volatility ...