This dissertation comprises three essays analyzing the economic behavior of customers visiting farms with recreational purposes in the United States. The first essay uses the Travel Cost method with data from the 2000 National Survey on Recreation and the Environment to determine and quantify...

In this paper, using pseudo panel data we analyze the relation between cigarette and alcoholic beverage consumption within the rational addiction framework. We believe that pseudo panel data approach has many advantages compared to aggregate and panel data models. We found that alcoholic...

This study analyzes the factors that determine the demand for milk products and the consumer benefits from organic milk introduction. Estimating a structural model, the welfare effect is decomposed into two parts: the effect of having an additional product and the effect from the price changes...

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...

This dissertation studies the demand for imported and domestic demand models for meat and livestock. The first essay focuses on the separability between import and domestic meat demand and the performance of static versus dynamic models of consumer behavior. A new dynamic system of demand...

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...