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Rainfall Estimates or Tornado Detection?: An Assessment Based on the Needs of Emergency Managers
Donner, William R.; Grainger, Desiree; Rodriguez, Havidan; … - 2005
The following research brief uses data obtained from twenty six (n=26) interviews with emergency managers, National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters, and amateur radio operators (HAM) to determine whether rainfall estimation or tornado detection would more effectively address the needs of the...
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The olive oil and cotton lint sectors in the European Union
Gadanakis, Yiorgos; Baourakis, George; Clapan, Carmen; … - 2006
This paper examines and analyzes the impacts of the reformedCAP as well as the decisions of the new round of negotiations for theolive oil and cotton sectors in the European Union.The aim of this study is to estimate the changes in supply(agricultural supply plus intermediate demand and final...
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AN ASSESSMENT OF DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR IN THE U.S. CATFISH MARKET: AN APPLICATION OF THE GENERALIZED DYNAMIC ROTTERDAM MODEL
Muhammad, Andrew; Jones, Keithly G. - 2008
Dynamic demand systems have been employed in a number of studies to account for habit formation and inventory … adjustments in demand. Few studies have attempted to provide a theoretical foundation for the dynamic demand structures employed …. Recently, Bushehri (2003) showed how a generalized dynamic Rotterdam model could be derived from the neoclassical intertemporal …
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MODELLING THE EFFECT OF EU POLICY REFORMS ON FARM INVESTMENT BEHAVIOUR
Gallerani, Vittorio; Gomez y Paloma, Sergio; Raggi, Meri; … - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyse farm strategies and investment behaviour in a sample ofselected Italian farm-households facing different scenarios, with a particular focus on the effects ofthe 2003 CAP reform. Models were built for individual households using multi-criteria...
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ESSAYS ON STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF RETAIL COMPETITION USING CLASSICAL AND BAYESIAN ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES
Venkataraman, Sriraman - 2005
-run discrete dynamic games to study market firm?s entry, stay, and exit decisions in the lodging market. The econometric model is … based on Markov perfect equilibrium concept and relies on dynamic programming computational techniques. Essays 2 and 3 use …
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Research and Development Competition in the Chemicals Industry
Finger, Stephen R - 2008
rationale ignored the impact of product market competition. I propose and estimate a structural dynamic oligopoly model … ofcompetition in intellectual assets to capture the impact of interactions between firms in the industry. I estimate the dynamic …
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Company capital structure and tax: a study of mid-sized European companies
Cheng, Yue - 2008
between the determinants of long-term and short-terinfinancing decisions. Further research is done by adopting a dynamic …
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Quantitative Analyse dynamischer nichtlinearer Panelmodelle ; Analysis of dynamic nonlinear panel models
Bode, Oliver - 2013
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ACRE: A Revenue-Based Alternative to Price-Based Commodity Payment Programs
Cooper, Joseph C. - 2009
This paper develops a stochastic model for estimating the probability density function of the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE), a revenue-based commodity support payment that is offered under the 2008 Farm Act as an alternative to the traditional suite of price-based commodity payments, that...
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Payments under the Average Crop Revenue Program: Implications for Government Costs and Producer Preferences
Cooper, Joseph C. - 2009
This paper develops a stochastic model for comparing payments to U.S. corn producers under the U.S. Senate’s Average Crop Revenue Program (ACR) versus payments under the price-based marketing loan benefit and countercyclical payment programs. Using this model, the paper examines the...
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