This paper investigates outsourcing and foreign direct investment (FDI)decisions based on factor price differentials in North-South trade when the productionis fragmented into two independent processes.  It is shown that (a) when the Southern firm does not have the Northern firm-specific...

Undergraduate text book covering all aspects of farm business management.

 This publication reports the results of the 2010 Iowa State University land value survey.  In 2010, Iowa land values were an average of $5,064 per acre.  This publication reports county and crop reporting district values

 This report shows the estimated costs of crop production in Iowa.  Budgets are presented for alternative rotations and yield levels.  For 2011, costs are expected to increase although not to the same level as 2009.  Still the cost estimates are almost twice as large as the estimates five...

Manski (1999) proposed an approach for dealing with a particular form respondent uncertainty in discrete choice settings, particularly relevant in survey based research when the uncertainty stems from the incomplete description of the choice scenarios. Specifically, he suggests eliciting choice...