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Canoles, William Bruce - 1994

The focus of this study was to learn more about a critical commodity market participant, the long term speculator. The speculator's activity broadens a market, creates essential liquidity, and performs an irreplaceable pricing function. Working knowledge of the profiles, motivations, and modes...

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A trade simulation analysis of the impacts of United States trade barriers on selected Taiwanese agricultural exports

Bernstein, Boaz - 1992

The Static World Policy Simulation Model (SWOPSIM) is used to measure the welfare implications and the economic impacts …The results suggest that under multilateral trade liberalization world market prices of the studied agricultural … commodities would generally move upwards, domestic price variability would increase, and world trade volume would expand. U …

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Institutional Structure in Corporate Agriculture

Bhutani, Niti - 2010

In this dissertation, a state-contingent, principal-agent model is developed to examine the institution of input provision by a corporate firm that contracts with agents for the production of a given commodity. "Input provision" entails not only the provision and delivery of key inputs by the...

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Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level

Song, Xiaojiang

Through the remarkable growth of over a decade China's rural industry has already become an important pillar of its national economy. The primary goal of this dissertation is to place China's rural industry in a historical and a market economic perspective in an efforts to link its rapid...

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