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RISK BALANCING STRATEGIES IN THE FLORIDA DAIRY INDUSTRY: AN APPLICATION OF CONDITIONAL VALUE AT RISK

Zylstra, Michael J.; Kilmer, Richard L.; Uryasev, Stanislav - 2003

Legislation has prompted changes in milk price volatility. Milk price volatility impacts the producer's exposure to business risk which is compound by the firms financial risk. Financial risk is a function of the firms capital structure. In the short run it is difficult for the producer to...

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HOG RISK MANAGEMENT SURVEY: SUMMARY AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS

Patrick, George F.; Baquet, Alan E.; Coble, Keith H.; … - 2000

This paper summarizes the results of a survey of a stratified, random sample of 630 hog operations in Indiana and Nebraska. The survey was conducted in March and April, 2000 with support of a research grant to contribute to the development of a knowledge base to guide the design and...

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Analysis of the distributional effects of the indemnities to the fishing sector damaged by the Prestige oil slick

Castro, Daniel Fuentes - 2005

negra; Prestige; Compensaciones; Redistribución; Impacto AmbientalAbstract.The present article focuses on the indemnities … effects of the uniform indemnities among the four main fishing activities on the area: coastal fishing, aquaculture, seafood … harvesting on-foot and seafood harvesting on-boat. We also estimate the total cost of indemnities. The paper shows how a simple …

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Kekuatan Hukum Merek Yang Didaftarkan Atas Dasar Itikad Tidak Baik

Dewi, Atika Sandra - 2011

with the verdict of indemnities as it was claimed by PREFEL, S.A. The reason was that PREFEL, S.A., the legal owner of …

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Effect of Plant Location Decisions on Raw Material Input Prices

Burton, Diana M.; Love, H. Alan - 2011

In processing industries, plant location decisions are costly and have consequences for firm profitability. When raw materials are heavy or perishable, transportation costs limit shipping distances and processors must compete locally for raw material inputs. To determine the likely profitability...

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE U.S. HOG SLAUGHTER INDUSTRY

Bullock, J. Bruce - 2003

Conventional wisdom holds that a small and decreasing number of hog slaughter firms are using their "market power" to take advantage of U.S. hog producers. Existing studies have simply calculated industry concentration ratios and assumed/asserted that the performance of such a concentrated...

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CATTLE AS ASSETS: ASSESSMENT OF NON-MARKET BENEFITS FROM CATTLE IN SMALLHOLDER KENYAN CROP-LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS

Ouma, Emily Awuor; Obare, Gideon A.; Staal, Steven J. - 2003

This paper uses data from a survey of two hundred and fifty cattle households in three cattle keeping systems; intensive, semi-intensive and extensive systems to estimate the value of non-market, socio-economic benefits of cattle in Kenya. These benefits of cattle keeping are of special...

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HOW BIG IS YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF MARKET PARTICIPATION BY SMALLHOLDER LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS

Lapar, Ma. Lucila A.; Holloway, Garth J.; Ehui, Simeon K. - 2003

Identifying ways to increase market participation by smallholder producers requires identifying variables that influence market access. This is usually achieved using probit estimation. An important phenomenon affecting entry decision-making is the entry decision of a 'similar' household, where...

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Trader Behaviour and Performance in Live Animal Marketing in Rural Ethiopian Markets

Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Benin, Samuel; Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z. - 2006

In this paper, performance of a sample of 131 livestock traders in 38 rural Ethiopian highland markets was analysed in terms of their costs and margins, how these were influenced by their assets and trading practices, and the implications of the findings for policy were outlined. The paper is...

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Price Developments on the World Markets for Milk Products: The Case of Butter

Hockmann, Heinrich; Voneki, Eva - 2006

A time series model is estimated to identify the interrelation among prices on the international and the EU domestic market for butter. Although the findings were not derived from a causal model, the inspection of the data provides economically reasonable and important insights in structural...

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