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This monograph provides an introduction to financing timber and timberland. It is intended to be an overview of credit underwriting for such financing. Primary users would include borrowers and their accountants, attorneys and advisors.
Haugh and Box (1977) and Pierce (1977) presented dynamic regression (transfer function) procedures for examining possible interrelationships among more than one time series variable. This report employs these procedures in an empirical analysis of U.S. relative lumber prices, U.S. housing starts, and U.S. log exports to Japan.
The reduction in...
Louisiana accounts for more than 90% of U.S. production of crawfish. While the majority of the product is sold live for crawfish boils, approximately 15%-30% of the domestic output has historically been processed for the tail meat. As a result of increasing competion from China, Lousiana processors filed an antidumping...
The Byrd Amendment permits US firms that petition successfully for antidumping duties to collect tariff revenues. Whether these payments strengthen the duty’s ability to raise price depends crucially on market structure. In a competitive market where domestic and imported goods are imperfect substitutes, the payments are akin to a production...
Environmental concerns about seafood consumption generally are associated with the status of target stocks as well as bycatch and/or habitat issues. The more recent concept of "food miles" hails from terrestrial food production, and focuses on "consuming locally" in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of a consumer's diet....