A major goal of Colleges of Agriculture is to prepare students for productive careers in agribusiness. Goecker, Gilmore, and Whatley estimated that approximately 40% of the potential job openings for food and agricultural sciences graduates during 2000-2005 would be for posi-tions in management,...

Skeletonleaf bursage is a good candidate for precision herbicide application (PHA), because it is a perennial and grows in dense patches. Net present value was positive for most combinations of field size and infestation rates. Higher net present values were observed with larger fields and lower...

This letter reconsiders the empirical tests of the new Keynesian and new classical models performed by Ball Mankiw and Romer and Akerlof, Rose and Yellen. The original tests conform basically to cross-section analysis; we develop both time-series and pooled cross-section, time-series tests of...

This paper applies a time-varying parameter vector autoregressive approach to estimate the relative effects of housing and stock returns on the growth rate of US consumption over time. We use annual data from 1890 to 2012 and find that at the 1- and 2-year horizons and over time, generally the...

This paper considers the contracting approach to centralbanking in a simple common agency model. We suggest thatcentral banker contracts that do not consider the possibilityof more than one principal existing are incomplete contracts.Such incomplete contracts can be a poor form ofmonetary policy...

Purpose – Country alpha swaps are proposed to facilitate emerging market risk-sharing, even during global financial crises. Country alphas measure risk-adjusted performance by subtracting the product of average world index returns and the country's beta, measuring its contribution to global...

Purpose – To investigate whether monetary volatility in the US exerts any asymmetric impact on output volatility over the period 1974‐2002. Design/methodology/approach – For the empirical purposes, the analysis makes use of the multi‐variable GARCH (MVGARCH), which allows not only the...

This paper provides a review of transport model applications that not only provide a central traffic forecast (or forecasts for a few scenarios), but also quantify the uncertainty in the traffic forecasts in the form of a confidence interval or related measures. Both uncertainty that results...

Purpose – Country alpha swaps are proposed to facilitate emerging market risk‐sharing, even during global financial crises. Country alphas measure risk‐adjusted performance by subtracting the product of average world index returns and the country's beta, measuring its contribution to...