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DOES THE MARKET ANTICIPATE SMOOTHING IN USDA CROP PRODUCTION FORECASTS?

Isengildina, Olga; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

soybean production forecasts during 1970/71 through 2003/04 marketing years. The analysis revealed that markets consistently …

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Could Packers Manipulate Cash Markets by Linking Contract and Futures Prices?

Xia, Tian; Crespi, John M.; Dhuyvetter, Kevin C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

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Effect of Advocacy Information on Consumer Preferences for Cage Free Eggs: A Neuroeconomic Analysis

McFadden, Brandon R.; Lusk, Jayson L.; Crespi, John M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

Understanding how consumers respond to information about animal production systems is important both for animal activist groups and for agricultural producers alike. This is particularly true as information conveyed over platforms such as YouTube both decrease the cost of communication and...

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GENERIC COMMODITY PROMOTION AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION

Crespi, John M. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999

This paper considers whether generic promotion lowers the differentiation among competing brands as claimed in the 1997 Supreme Court case (Wileman et al. v. Glickman). Commodity promotion is modeled as a multi-stage game where products are vertically differentiated. Analytical results show that...

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DO U.S. MARKETING ORDERS HAVE MUCH MARKET POWER? AN EXAMINATION OF THE ALMOND BOARD OF CALIFORNIA

Crespi, John M.; Chacon-Cascante, Adriana - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2002

This paper tests the conventional wisdom that U.S. marketing orders act as profit-maximizing cartels. The paper … analyzes the marketing order for U.S. almonds in both the domestic and export markets. Such a case study is relevant to all U ….S. marketing orders because the size and scope of the U.S. almond industry on the world market, and the legal authority of the …

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Accuracy Trends and Sources of Forecast Errors in WASDE Balance Sheet Categories for Corn and Soybeans

Botto, Augusto C.; Isengildina, Olga; Irwin, Scott H.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006

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ARE ASSESSMENTS FOR GENERIC ADVERTISING OPTIMAL IF PRODUCTS ARE DIFFERENTIATED?

Crespi, John M.; Marette, Stephan - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2001

An analytical framework where consumers display preferences for various qualities of an agricultural commodity is used to investigate the producer welfare effects of generic advertising assessments. Depending upon the degree of product differentiation present in the final goods, some producers...

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The Performance of Chicago Board of Trade Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Futures Contracts after Recent Changes in Speculative Limits

Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip; Good, Darrel L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

Three attributes of futures contract behavior important for market performanceliquidity, volatility, and convergenceare investigated before and after the 2005 increase in speculative position limits for corn, soybean, and wheat contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade. The analysis of liquidity...

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Efficient Portfolios of Market Advisory Services: An Application of Shrinkage Estimators

Cabrini, Silvina M.; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005

program's marketing recommendations and the average price/revenue offered by the market along the marketing window. The … portfolios of advisory programs. Results suggest that farmers can benefit from following the marketing recommendations of …

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THE COST OF FORWARD CONTRACTING

Shi, Wei; Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.; Hagedorn, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004

The cost of forward contracting corn is estimated with weekly pre-harvest forward bases for seven regions of Illinois from 1975 to 2002. Given the panel structure of the forward basis dataset, we extend Townsend and Brorsen's univariate unit root model for forward bases to a panel unit root...

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