The purpose of this paper is to study the empirical strength of the bi-directional linkages between environmental standards and performance, on the one hand, and environmental innovation, on the other and, hence, the role of policy in spurring environmental R&D and, in turn, ultimate...

Numerous studies have addressed the question of the econometric specification of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). This paper adds preliminary results on nonstationarity and its effect on functional form using a panel data set for the U.S. by state from 1929 to 1994. It is found that...

US cattle producers often claim that cattle prices are below competitive levels. In this paper, short-run and long-run oligopsony conduct is estimated by utilizing an oligopsony dynamic model. Results of time-series analysis indicate that the hypothesis of competitive conduct in the short-run...

We applied the migration approach to credit scoring measurement to determine how ratings, focused on farm characteristics such as farm size, age, and farm business type, change across business cycles. The empirical results from analyzing migration matrices using data from FBFM suggest that old,...

Why would anyone want lower quality drinking water? The Safe Drinking Water Act allows an "affordability, variance technology, small system variance exemption" to the drinking water standards based on a supply side argument. It assumes small drinking water systems have significant diseconomies...

This paper uses a principal-agent model to examine incentive compatibility in the presence of information asymmetry between the government and individual producers. Prior models of livestock disease have not incorporated information asymmetry between livestock managers and social planners. By...

Due to high losses of agricultural land in urbanizing areas over the past several years, state and local governments have adopted zoning regulations, right-to-farm ordinances, preferential property tax programs, and other means to protect agricultural land resources. Critics of the farmland...

This article explores the barriers that prevent the adoption of HACCP system by food processing firms in Ontario, Canada. The study identifies four key groups of barriers that prevent firms from adopting HACCP system in their food safety control programs, namely questionable appropriateness,...

This study follows the standard factor endowment approach to explain the effects of environmental regulations on net exports in different product-based industries. It constructs an econometric model which includes factor endowments and environmental regulations to examine how strict...

A tractable two-stage constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function is applied to disaggregated western Canadian wheat and canola data for 1926-2003 to investigate the induced innovation hypothesis. Time series properties of the data are analyzed using cointegration and error...