South Korea is one of the largest beef importing countries in the world. Australia, USA, and New Zealand provide the majority of beef they import. The objective of this study is to evaluate the price relationship of Korean cattle and corn, prices of the imported beef and corn, and prices of...

The presence of Superfund sites can have substantial impacts on surrounding property values. A shortcoming of studies utilizing the traditional hedonic price model is that they fail to account for the presence of spatial dependence or autocorrelation in residential housing. Jefferson County,...

Purpose – Recently, trade openness has expanded in the world level as well as high trade dependent countries like Korea. In turn, a rise of trade openness is expected to affect on the tourism industry. This study investigates the causal relationship between trade openness, outbound tourism...

Replaced with revised version of paper 02/02/11.

This paper introduces an alternative non-market value elicitation method—the “quasi-doublereferendum†(QDR)—applied to barrier island restoration in Mississippi. It is appropriate for surveys that elicit willingness-to-pay responses to multiple projects differing in scale...

A nationwide survey was conducted in the summer of 2011 via Knowledge Networks to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) for a large-scale restoration project in the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary in coastal Louisiana. A split-sample approach was used to administer both a binary-choice...

This paper introduces an alternative non-market value elicitation method, the “quasi-double-referendum (QDR),” applied to barrier island restoration in Mississippi. It is appropriate for surveys which elicit willingness-to-pay responses to multiple projects differing in scale only, and can...

Researchers and practitioners of precision agricultural technology have worked to overcome adoption, cost, and environmental obstacles since its introduction. The next gap in the adoption continuum of profitable precision agricultural technologies is data and data use, the so-called Big Data....