A cross-section, time-series model of food processing firms examines how profitability is affected by acquiring either firms inside the food industry (i.e., firms within the parent's area of expertise), or outside of the food industry (i.e., conglomerate-type aquisitions). The study concludes...

This paper aids researchers who are conducting microeconomic work in developing countries to more effectively collect farm production data. The discussion focuses on helping the researcher who has fairly well-defined research ideas to better visualize the steps that are necessary for collecting...

Village leaders in the Chinese reform economy are assumed to maximize a multiple-attribute utility function; their behavior is modeled in a dynamic control framework. Using village data, structural and control equations for industrial output, grain yields, capital, non-farm employment and hybrid...