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This report evaluates tourism potential in North Dakota with special emphasis on southwest North Dakota. A survey of 808 Fargo residents in the summer of 1998 revealed strongest likes, dislikes, and their potential new interests while on vacation. Favorite pastimes while on vacation include (in...
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Increased use of alternative fuels and low commodity prices have contributed to the recent expansion of the ethanol industry. As with any competitive industry, there exists some level of output price risk in the form of volatility. Yet, no actively traded ethanol futures market exists to...
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Recent innovations in energy markets suggest the possibility of addressing agricultural risk factors by issuing derivatives on weather elements. Such instruments appear particularly attractive, as asymmetric information and loss adjustment issues do not affect them. The paper first describes the...
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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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We analyze time-varying volatility in crude oil, heating oil, and natural gas futuresmarkets by incorporating changes in important macroeconomic variables and majorpolitical and weather-related events in conditional variance equations. We allow eachmarket to respond to positive news different...
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Recent increases in the price of crude oil have led to a rise in the prominence of corn-based ethanol as an alternative source of energy. As a result linkages have been established between commodity and energy prices. The aim of this study is to determine if soybeans, corn, wheat, oil, and...
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Many fisheries are characterized by a brief and concentrated harvest period followed by a longer marketing period … wholesalemarket over the marketing period in a way that maximizes expected net returns.The model is applied to the Japanese wholesale … prices, the opportunity cost of holding stocks, the length of time left in the marketing horizon and the level ofcurrent …
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Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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This paper forecasts market share for U.S. frozen, farm-raised catfish fillets using alternative logit formulations. Results suggest the log inverse power transformation (IPT) performs better than the simple logit and IPT logit models, and had the smallest percentage errors for out-of-sample...
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The design of wholesale electricity markets in the transition towards liberalization presents significant differences from country to country. Some spot markets have imposed the concentration of transactions to ensure market liquidity. Other markets are based on bilateral trading. The debate...
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