Traditional theory of customs union predicts an ultimate failure of integration efforts in semi-industrialized regions (SIC). A review of economic literature published during the last ten years suggests that there are new paradigms in international trade which can be applied specifically to the...

The focus of this study was to learn more about a critical commodity market participant, the long term speculator. The speculator's activity broadens a market, creates essential liquidity, and performs an irreplaceable pricing function. Working knowledge of the profiles, motivations, and modes...

This study demonstrates that Pigouvian taxes derived from the socially optimum shadow prices of shared resources may result in serious deviations between users' response and the socially optimal resource use when the users' profit motive is not shared by the social planner and the resultant...

Some environmental problems transcend national boundaries and pose issues for international as well as domestic policies. The impacts of domestic environmental policy on the welfare of output and input suppliers are evaluated using a partial vertically integrated model. The model includes...

This study is concerned with the use of the hydrologic unit (HU) approach as a management strategy employed in the 98 United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service district offices in Illinois. The approach is the management technique or strategy of working with local people...

Although expert systems technology that takes advantage of artificial intelligence techniques is very powerful, its application in the business domain is not without problems. Nevertheless, integration of Decision Support System (DSS) and Expert System (ES) will improve decision maker...

The purpose of this research is to determine and examine optimal grain marketing decisions utilizing a stochastic dynamic programming framework. Consideration is given to the linkages, stochastic nature, and dynamics of income taxes, current grain market conditions, the financial condition of...

This study aims at exploring the relationship between efficiency and the capital structure of cash grain farms in Illinois.