Do milk marketing orders affect various demographic groups differently? To answer this question, we use supermarket scanner data to estimate an incomplete demand system for dairy products. We use these estimates to simulate substitution among dairy products and the welfare impacts of price...

This paper develops a test for the presence of alternate bearing and a means of consistently estimating yields for crops whose output varies from year to year for reasons not fully captured by available biological and economic variables. Using these techniques one can better forecast yields than...

A linear-quadratic dynamic oligopoly model is used to estimate the competitiveness of the rice export market. The model nests various market structures using either open-loop or feedback strategies. The estimated feedback model implies a less competitive market structure than the estimated...