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  • International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

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    Rada, Nicholas E.
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    Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Because food prices’ most critical effects are on human hunger, it is especially...
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    Agreement No. 43-3AEL-5-80096. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter 1

  • Essays in applied economics

    Creator:
    Nag, Sharmistha
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    My dissertation concerns two separate issues. The first issue is examined in Essay One, and the second issue is examined in Essays Two and Three. The first essay develops an economic model of the determination of the rental rate of leased farmland in the United States. Particular attention is placed...
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    regarding this series in Table 1. Looking near the top of this table, the “agricultural trade” exchange

  • Essays in incomplete agricultural markets

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    Cross, Robin M.
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    Agricultural revenues, the product of stochastic prices and yields, lead to markets which are incomplete, thereby entreating and complicating economic inquiry. The following three essays explore the incomplete nature of agricultural markets and consider the implications of incompleteness for a range of policy questions and economic tools. The first essay,...
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    is, for our purposes, zero, since there are no contracts in this market, and the tomato crop is not

  • The supply and demand of university agricultural biotechnology research

    Creator:
    Yang, Hui
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    The objectives and characteristics of university biotechnology research, including its applicability to such industries as agriculture and food processing, arise from formal and informal linkages among university scientists, public and private-nonprofit funding sources, and industry. In the present study I develop, specify, and estimate a model of the supply and...
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    Agreement No. 2001-52100-11217. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Literature

  • Public investment policy and industry incentives in life science research

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    Wang, Chenggang
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    The biorevolution in the 1970’s greatly stimulated investment in life-science research. The present dissertation is aimed at evaluating the impact of US public investment on industrial investment in life-science research. The focus is on three major life-science fields: biology, medicine, and agriculture. A dynamic model of industrial R&D investment is...
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    Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under NRI Grant No. 2005-35400-15881. TABLE OF

  • A policy preference analysis of the Tunisian wheat sector

    Creator:
    Boughanmi, Houcine
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    Governments in less developed countries have recognized in recent years the need to liberalize economic policies in order to increase efficiency in agricultural commodity markets. In an attempt to help decision makers assess alternative choices, most policy studies, however, have focused on the efficiency norm criterion without much consideration for...
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    1. INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 General Presentation 1 1.2 Literature Review 5 1.3 Organization of the