# Browse Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics by Title

• (2017-07-20)
To understand the local benefits and costs of sustainable streets, this study uses housing transaction data in Chicago to examine the impact of those projects on the sale prices of nearby residential properties. Specifically, ...

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• (1992)
As a result of the unique segmentation of the international rice market, and the dominance of US and Thailand within certain market segments, a model of monopolistic price discrimination is developed in this study to examine ...

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• (1979)

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• (1970)

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• (2019-06-14)
This study compares the implications of changing from the prior capital standards to the current capital standards on Farm Credit System associations. The current capital standards effective as of January 1, 2017, were ...

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• (2000)
The value is found to change during the study period (1963--1995) and increases with the scarcity of the resource. The average environmental value per acre is about $24,459 for the periods 1963--1976, and$128,437 for the ...

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• (2008)
The combined research leads to a more comprehensive understanding of market behavior. We show that implied transactions costs do exist, at times are large, and are not easy to estimate, but careful examination of the data ...

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• (2009-05)
The performance and economic value of public outlook forecasts has been of continuing interest to agricultural economists and market participants. This dissertation provide new and powerful evidence on the performance of ...

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• (2005)
This dissertation analyzes food safety through a comparative institutional approach in three essays. In the first essay a stylized food policy framework evaluates various mechanisms: direct regulation, post-market surveillance, ...

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• (2001)
The second part of the thesis develops a technology adoption model under uncertainty and risk aversion to examine the incentives for adoption of SSCM and its farm-level impacts. The theoretical model shows that ignoring ...

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• (1965)

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• (1990)
Both options and better information about prices have been proposed to increase the attractiveness of livestock hedging strategies. This study examines the value of incorporating both into hedging strategies for live hogs. ...

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• (1961)

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• (1992)
Most integrated circuit designs must be iterated in the design cycle for tens or even hundreds times to correct all of the violations and/or to optimize the performance. At the latter portion of the design cycles, only ...

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• (1967)

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• (1952)

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• (1966)

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• (2019-07-15)
In recent years significant policy attention has been given to reducing food waste, including the practice of donating surplus food. The most recent of these policies was the 2018 Farm Bill which dedicated new funding and ...

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• (1981)
The subject matter of this thesis was the comparison of five integer algorithms suitable for solving large capital budgeting problems such as those characterized by the national development plans in developing nations. In ...

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