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Causality and aggregation in economics: the use of high dimensional panel data in micro-econometrics and macro-econometrics

Bessler, David A. (contributor) - 2007

deterministic relationsare oftentimes observed among variables in high dimensional data. Aggregation methods areproposed as one … aggregated variables. Aggregation methods also arehelpful to address the issue of how to incorporate a large information set into … economy of parameters in empirical models. However, actual aggregation requires legitimateclassifications for interpretable …

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Modeling Advertising Expenditures and Spillover Effects Applied to the U.S. Non-Alcoholic Beverage Industry: Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Polynomial Distributed Lag (PDL) Approa...

Dharmasena, Senarath; Capps Jr., Oral; Bessler, David A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

The non-alcoholic beverage market in the U.S. is a multi-billion dollar industry growing steadily over the past decade. Also, non-alcoholic beverages are among the most heavily advertised food and beverage groups in the United States. Several studies pertaining to non-alcoholic beverages...

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Dynamic relationships between US and Thai rice prices

Taylor, Earl L.; Bessler, David A.; Waller, Mark L.; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 14 (1996) 2

Relationships between the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) estimated World Market Price, the Thai milled rice price, US transportation-adjusted cash rough rice price, and the Chicago Rice and Cotton Exchange rough rice futures price are examined for the 1987-1991 marketing years....

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Impacts of BSE and Avian Influenza on U.S. Meat Demand

Mu, Jianhong E.; McCarl, Bruce A.; Bessler, David A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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Price Dynamics and Forecasts of World and China Vegetable Oil Markets

Wang, Jing; Dharmasena, Senarath; Bessler, David A. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

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EGG PRICES REVISITED

Schrader, Lee F.; Bessler, David A.; Preston, Warren P. - In: Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 17 (1985) 02

Recent egg price quotes are evaluated in a vector autoregression. The results indicate that empirical relationships observed over the period 1975-1976 differ from those observed over the period 1979-1982.

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Is the Soybean Checkoff Program Working?

Williams, Gary W.; Capps Jr., Oral; Bessler, David A. - Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC), Department … - 2009

The primary objective of this study is to answer two key questions regarding the U.S. soybean checkoff program over time: (1) What have been the effects of the soybean checkoff program on U.S. and world soybean and soybean product markets? (2) Has the soybean checkoff program benefited soybean...

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Effects of Soybean Checkoff Research Expenditures on U.S. Soybean Yields and Net Revenue: A Time Series Analysis

Bessler, David A. - Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC), Department … - 2009

Statistical methods are used to study relationships between research expenditures (adjusted for inflation) made from producer checkoff programs and soybean yields and net revenues in the United States for the years 1978 – 2007. Results presented are for yield and net revenue data and research...

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CAUSALITY AND PRICE DISCOVERY: AN APPLICATION OF DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS

Haigh, Michael S.; Bessler, David A. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2002

Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG's) and Error Correction Models (ECM's) are employed to analyze questions of price discovery between spatially separated commodity markets and the transportation market linking them together. Results from our analysis suggest these markets are highly interconnected...

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FORECASTING AGRICULTURAL PRICES USING A BAYESIAN COMPOSITE APPROACH

McIntosh, Christopher S.; Bessler, David A. - In: Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 20 (1988) 02

Forecast users and market analysts need quality forecast information to improve their decision-making abilities. When more than one forecast is available, the analyst can improve forecast accuracy by using a composite forecast. One of several approaches to forming composite forecasts is a...

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