The objective of this paper is to identify the effect of livestock mandatory price reporting (MPR) on cattle cash prices. Using the lag augmented vector autoregression (LA-VAR) and the historical decomposition, we find that there exist a steady increase in cattle prices after MPR in 2001....

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) schemes in addressing household food waste, specifically by comparing two primary PAYT approaches: volume-based and weight-based. Employing a household food waste model grounded in the utility maximization framework and...

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/08.

This paper determines the dynamic interaction between prices of corn, soybean, grain sorghum (milo), wheat, feeder cattle and live (fed) cattle by taking into account the surge in corn consumption stemming from the boost of mandated ethanol production. Corn is a major carbohydrate-feed component...

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/09.

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/10.