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Temporal price relationships in cash forward and futures markets for white wheat

Creator:: Sanguanruang, Santisuk
Abstract:: Forward pricing is a marketing tool available to Pacific Northwest white wheat growers for reducing price risk. The cash forward contract is the traditional pricing mechanism used for this purpose. In September 1984, another option for forward pricing was made available through the introduction of a new futures market for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . I also wish to thank Dr. Richard M. Adams and Dr. Michael V. Martin for their helpful comments and

An optimization model to allocate forestry incentives funds in teak plantations of the southern-coastal region of Guatemala

Creator:: Pavez, Ricardo
Abstract:: Guatemala is internationally recognized as a country suitable to invest in the forestry industry. The first Guatemalan Forest Incentive Program – PINFOR- was implemented in 1996 to foster local forestry through cost-sharing. However, it lacks both formal land use planning processes and mechanisms to assess economic potential of projects, so...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Thanks to my major professor Dr. John Sessions and the Committee members Dr. Richard Adams, Dr. Eric

On the incorporation of nonnumeric information into the estimation of economic relationships in the presence of multicollinearity

Creator:: Parandvash, G. Hossein
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Richard M. Adams for serving on my graduate committee and for their helpful comments. To Dr

Essays on environmental productivity

Creator:: Bellenger, Moriah J., 1980-
Abstract:: The following three essays explore the use of the directional output distance function (Chambers et al., 1996), an economic model originally developed to measure efficiency and productivity for multi-input and multi-output production processes, to assess performance for multi-attributed environmental processes. The first essay illustrates the use of the directional output...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (x) denote the feasible output set for the vector of outputs y = (y1, ..., yM) ∈ <M+ given inputs x

Price elasticities in commodity trade models and external trade statistics

Creator:: Emami, Ali
Abstract:: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of the source of the external trade statistics in measuring the price responsiveness of foreign demands and relative price competitiveness of the major exporting countries in trade of agricultural commodities in international markets. In particular, the papers included in this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: appreciation and thanks to Dr. William C. Brown, Dr. Richard M. Adams, and Dr. Star B. McMullen - members of

Essays on conservation policies and agricultural nonpoint source pollution control

Creator:: Tanaka, Katsuya
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three papers on agricultural nonpoint source pollution and control. The first paper focuses primarily on agricultural land use changes under alternative conservation policies. The second and third papers address environmental implications of these policies and their cost effectiveness. In the first paper, the effect of alternative...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Distortions to travel cost derived demand curves : water quality and durable goods

Creator:: Garifo, Susan E.
Abstract:: The travel cost method of deriving demand and value of recreation does not include fixed costs of recreational durable goods purchases or allow for supply restrictions on the number of suitable sites available. The omission of these two real-world situations results in derivation of demand curves which are more inelastic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to thank my major professor, Russell L. Gum; the other members of my committee, Richard N

Pollution control mechanisms when abatement costs are private knowledge

Creator:: Romstad, Eirik
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: members of my advisory committee, Drs. Richard N. Adams, Emery N. Castle, H. Alan Love, and Bruce Rettig

Strategies for the development of sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh

Creator:: Islam, Md. Shahidul
Abstract:: The adoption of modem agricultural technologies in Bangladesh increases overall agricultural productivity and income primarily through the increase in cereal crop production. It, however, impedes the productivity of several other minor crops and fishes, widens the distribution of income between the rich and the poor, exploits resources and obstructs the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: members, Richard M. Adams, Frank S. Conklin, Stanley F. Miller and Floyd W. Bodyfelt for their valuable

Essays on the interactions between land use, natural amenity and wildfire risk

Creator:: Xu, Wenchao
Abstract:: It is essential to study the relationship between environmental features and human land-use activities that can provide a better understanding of human-environment interactions. In a response, this dissertation addresses the human-environment issues from different perspectives in three essays. The first essay conducts an integrated analysis to investigate the impacts of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: carried out without his remarkable guidance. I would like to thank all my committee members, Dr. Richard

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Temporal price relationships in cash forward and futures markets for white wheat

An optimization model to allocate forestry incentives funds in teak plantations of the southern-coastal region of Guatemala

On the incorporation of nonnumeric information into the estimation of economic relationships in the presence of multicollinearity

Essays on environmental productivity

Price elasticities in commodity trade models and external trade statistics

Essays on conservation policies and agricultural nonpoint source pollution control

Distortions to travel cost derived demand curves : water quality and durable goods

Pollution control mechanisms when abatement costs are private knowledge

Strategies for the development of sustainable agriculture in Bangladesh

Essays on the interactions between land use, natural amenity and wildfire risk

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