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Limited inquiry into cooperative governance and performance suggests that best practices from corporate governance …, expectations of better performance by larger cooperatives with smaller boards are confirmed, while mixed evidence is obtained on … of governance choices requires consideration of trade-offs between financial performance and effectively serving other …
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The impact of experience on entrepreneurial performance has been widely tested. Although experience is expected to … positively impact performance, results are varied. This research synthesizes the current literature by determining systematic … and form of experience tested pose a major impact on the probability of obtaining a positive estimate for the experience-performance …
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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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Farm management skills can affect farm managers' performance. In this article, farm management performance is analyzed …
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This paper tries to justify the observation of different return patterns in the upstream and downstream sectors of US beef production. It builds a dynamic rational expectation model separating the cow-calf and feeding sector with the former sector being the residual claimer. The model shows that...
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A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind the choice of different quality assurance systems and their associated degrees of stringency by firms. Differences in the quality discoverability of a sought-after attribute, market structure,...
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Selected Poster for AAEA 2014 annual meetings
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We develop a model of the impact of food quality management systems (QMS) on competitiveness and markets. QMS seek to control the quality of a product as determined by the array of individual attributes it possesses. To date only a few studies have attempted to better understand the effect of...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/31/06.
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