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Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Biodegradable Containers Than for Plastic Ones? Evidence from Hypothetical Conjoint Analysis and Nonhypothetical Experimental Auctions
Yue, Chengyan; Hall, Charles R.; Behe, Bridget K.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42 (2010) 04
This study used and compared hypothetical conjoint analysis and nonhypothetical experimental auctions to elicit floral customers’ willingness to pay for biodegradable plant containers. The results of the study show that participants were willing to pay a price premium for biodegradable...
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Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Matching Analysis
Katchova, Ani L. - 2010
lower contract prices in absence of local competition. This study examines the price competitiveness of marketing and … production contracts depending on the availability of alternative marketing options. A propensity score matching method is used …
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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JAMAICA’S GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY
Evans, Edward A.; Nalampang, Sikavas; Spreen, Thomas H. - 2007
illegal. One alternative worth considering is exporting fresh grapefruits to the EU. This marketing opportunity comes about as … the demand for the fruit in the EU could create a marketing opportunities for countries such as Jamaica. The paper … discusses the state of the Florida citrus industry with particular reference to grapefruits and the marketing prospects for …
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Hog Options: Contract Redesign and Market Efficiency
Urcola, Hernan A.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2010
This article tests the efficiency of the hog options market and assesses the impact of the 1996 contract redesign on efficiency. We find that the hog options market is efficient, but some options yielded excess returns during the live hogs period but not during the lean hogs period. Our findings...
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Dynamic Effects of Grain and Energy Prices on the Catfish Feed and Farm Sectors
Muhammad, Andrew; Zheng, Hualu - 2010
This study examines the dynamic effects of grain prices and energy prices on catfish feed prices and the price of food-sized catfish at the farm level. Using the autoregressive distributed lag model and bounds testing procedure, a long-run relationship between feed and farm prices and their...
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Optimal Coverage Level Choice with Individual and Area Plans of Insurance
Bulut, Harun; Collins, Keith J.; Zacharias, Thomas P. - 2011
We theoretically examine a farmer’s coverage demand with area and individual insurance plans as either separate or integrated options. The individual and area losses are assumed to be imperfectly and positively correlated. With actuarially fair rates, the farmer will fully insure with the...
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Industry, firm, year, and country effects on profitability: Evidence from a large sample of EU food processing firms
Schiefer, Jan; Hartmann, Monika - 2009
This paper analyzes the variance in accounting profitability within the European food industry. Based on a large panel data set, the variance in return on assets (ROA) is decomposed into year, country, industry, and firm effects. Further on, we include all possible interactions between year,...
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Garment Industry and Economic Empowerment: A case study of Swaziland
Panin, Anthony; Mthombo, Thabile T. - 2008
This paper examines the extent to which garment industry in Swaziland has contributed to the economic empowerment of the Swazi people through creation of new jobs and improvement in their overall welfare. In Swaziland as elsewhere in many African countries, unemployment has been and is still a...
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The Effect of Prior Gains and Losses on Current Risk-Taking Using Quantile Regression
Mattos, Fabio; Garcia, Philip - 2009
This paper investigates the dynamics of sequential decision-making in agricultural futures andoptions markets using a quantile regression framework. Analysis of trading records of 12 traderssuggests that there is great heterogeneity in individual trading behavior. Traders responddifferently to...
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Does Futures Price Volatility Differ Across Delivery Horizon?
Karali, Berna; Dorfman, Jeffrey H.; Thurman, Walter N. - 2009
We study the difference in the volatility dynamics of CBOT corn, soybeans, and oatsfutures prices across different delivery horizons via the smoothed Bayesian estimatorof Karali, Dorfman, and Thurman (2010). We show that the futures price volatilitiesin these markets are affected by the...
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