We evaluate agricultural bank management performance, focusing on the impacts of interstate banking laws on productivity change. The generalized Malmquist productivity index decomposes productivity change into technological change, technical efficiency change, and change in scale economies....

The study encompasses an analysis of the variation in speeds of profitability adjustment and accounting bias by developed country and firm size for two important agribusiness industries. Evidence of speeds of profitability adjustment and accounting bias varying by firm size was found in the...

Coastal coral reefs, especially in the Florida Keys are declining at a disturbing rate, leading marine ecologists and reef scientists to emphasize the importance of establishing nonmarket values of coral reefs to assess the cost effectiveness of coral reef management and remediation programs....