2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA

This paper compares methods to remedy missing value problems in survey data. The commonly used methods to deal with this issue are to delete observations that have missin [...]

Production and financial impacts of recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) adoption are assessed using a survey of U.S. dairy operations and a model that corrects for sel [...]

The objective of this paper is to investigate the performance of different VaR models in the context of risk assessment in hog production. Potential pitfalls of tradition [...]

This paper models the market for beef products when quality production is stochastic and quality information is asymmetric between producers and consumers. Independent s [...]

This paper focuses on the practice of serial correlation correcting of the Linear Regression Model (LRM) by modeling the error. Simple Monte Carlo experiments are used to [...]

This paper proposes and explores the use of a partially adaptive estimation technique to improve the reliability of the inferences made from multiple regression models wh [...]

Balancing the numerous benefits that may accrue from pesticide use on cotton, farmers face health hazards. Pesticide-induced acute symptoms significantly increased the co [...]

This paper aims to quantify the driving forces behind the observed divergence of Indian economy. The results show that in a closed economy with agriculture as the predom [...]

In Poland and Russia, small-scale individual farms employ more labor per hectare of land than large-scale corporate farms, without suffering from lower labor productivity [...]

The purpose of this study was to utilize the economic surplus framework for evaluating the impact of investment in agricultural research. The economic impact measures us [...]