Due to the wide variety of retail formats in which apparel is sold, apparel retailers in the U.S. face unprecedented competitive pressure. The purpose of this study is to identify the linkage between product attributes sought by apparel purchasers and their ultimate choice of retail format....

It is ironic to think that the venerable pulp and paper industry is now considering ways to degrade cellulose. This notion can be understood as a way that the industry can face a protracted downturn in profitability and ever-mounting socio-economic pressures to enhance the efficiency of biofuels...

This paper extends the basic results of Houck’s insight for derived demand elasticitiesfor the case of joint products by allowing for the possibility of the joint and rawproducts being traded. Theoretical relationships between individual demands for aset of jointly-produced commodities that...

E-commerce is penetrating agriculture, particularly for selling products directly to consumers. The wine industry is a case in point. The industry has long-term experience in direct marketing. Many wineries welcome patrons at their premises for wine tasting and for selling wine to them....

Three trade policy changes underway and on the horizon have the prospect to alter global markets for japonica rice. This paper considers likely global market effects of expansion of access into the market in Japan and Korea, and reduced subsidy for japonica rice (among other crops) in the United...

This research shows that the existing literature on milk marketing orders misses an important effect. Previous work ignores the interaction of marketing orders with milk grading regulation. We model this interaction and show that producer benefits from marketing orders have been smaller than...

This study estimates the determinants of the exit behavior in a concentrating industry that encounters industrial restructuring. The swine industry has experienced the dramatic change in many perspectives, especially farm size and operation numbers, in the United States in past decades and the...

The farm-retail price spread is the difference between the retail price of a product and its farm value. It changes with changes in factor prices, the efficiency of providing services, and the quantity and quality of services embodied in the final product. A model was derived by Box-Cox...