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Quality Certification Standards in Competitive Markets: When Consumers and Producers (Dis)Agree

Lapan, Harvey E.; Moschini, GianCarlo - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2009

A quality certification standard in a competitive setting can improve welfare but may affect consumers and producers differently. In a competitive model with quality preferences of the vertical product differentiation type, we find that producers prefer a higher (lower) quality standard than...

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Captive Supplies and Cash Market Prices for Fed Cattle: A Dynamic Rational Expectations Model of Delivery Timing

Schroeter, John R. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2007

Several empirical analyses of data from fed cattle markets have found a negative correlation between a region's weekly delivery volume of captive supply cattle and contemporaneous price in the local cash market. This negative correlation has been cited as evidence of a causal relationship...

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Collusion Via Resale

Garratt, Rod; Troger, Thomas; Zheng, Charles Zhoucheng - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2007

The English auction is susceptible to tacit collusion when post-auction inter-bidder resale is allowed. We show this by constructing equilibria where, with positive probability, one bidder wins the auction without any competition and divides the spoils by optimally reselling the good to the...

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Biotechnology and the Development of Food Markets: Retrospect and Prospects

Moschini, GianCarlo - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008

Biotechnology has had an important impact on the agricultural and food industries over the last twelve years by way of fast and extensive adoption of a few genetically modified (GM) crops. This has produced large efficiency gains, including higher yields and reduced costs of weed and pest...

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How Coupled Are Decoupled Farm Payments? A Review of the Evidence

Bhaskar, Arathi; Beghin, John C. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2007

This survey paper explores the literature on decoupling of farm programs that has emerged in the last 10 years. The paper identifies and assesses the various channels of potential coupling of decoupled farm payments and provides taxonomy of coupling mechanisms found in theoretical and empirical...

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Meat Slaughter and Processing Plants' Traceability Levels: Evidence from Iowa

Bulut, Harun; Lawrence, John D. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2008

Based on an econometric analysis of the data obtained from a survey of meat plants (n=53 ) in Iowa in summer 2007, this paper identifies the factors impacting the meat plants’ voluntary adoption of forward and backward traceability activities. The results suggest that the ownership type...

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Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs

Jayasinghe, Sampath J.D.Y.; Beghin, John C.; Moschini, … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

The United States is a large net exporter of corn seeds. Seed trade, including that of corn, has been expanding, but … on an explicit specification of derived demand for seed by foreign corn producers, estimated based on data from 48 … trade costs matter and have had a negative impact on U.S. corn seed exports. Tariffs matter most, followed by distance and …

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Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Fabiosa, Jacinto F.; Beghin, John C.; Dong, Fengxia; … - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2009

shock the model with exogenous changes in ethanol demand, first in the United States, then in Brazil, China, EU, and India …

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Time in Eating and Food Preparation among Single Adults

Senia, Mark C.; Jensen, Helen H.; Zhylyevskyy, Oleksandr - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2014

We investigate factors affecting the duration of eating and food preparation among adults in single decision-maker households. Eating time is differentiated into primary and secondary eating time and further differentiated by location: at home vs. away from home. We construct a simple...

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Cow-Calf Producer Preferences for Voluntary Traceability Systems

Schulz, Lee L.; Tonsor, Glynn T. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

This article identifies preferences of US cow-calf producers for voluntary traceability systems to better identify the potential success of alternative voluntary traceability systems. Results suggest that notable heterogeneity exists between cow-calf producers in their preferences and the...

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