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The Effects of Deregulation on Rail Rates: A Study on Wheat, Barley, Corn, Oat, and Soybean
(North Dakota State University, 2006)
Although the original intent of this study was to do a pre-and post-deregulation assessment of rail rates per ton-mile, the results using post-deregulation data show a significant decrease in rail rates between 1981 and ...
Stakeholder Preferences for Water Quality Alternatives in the Red River Basin
(North Dakota State University, 2007)
The objective of this research is to estimate stakeholder preferences for management alternatives within the Red River of the North basin. Specifically, this thesis analyzes preferences related to water quality, water-based ...
The Risks Associated with Barley Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The market for barley has shifted from a demand for exports and livestock feed, to a demand for human food and alcohol production. Due to the crop qualities required for malting in the alcohol industry, barley is perceived ...
Regional Differences in Beverage and Fruit Consumption in China
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the impact of regional and other demographic characteristics, such as age, education level, and household income, on food consumption in China. In total, data for 2342 households ...
A Multivariate Approach to Forecasting Dairy Imports
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
The global economy is becoming more connected with every passing year. Developing countries continue to lift themselves out of poverty and their markets are hungry for the opportunity to trade goods with nations all over ...
Filling in Missing Values in the North Dakota Land Valuation Model
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The North Dakota Land Valuation Model relies on a crop yield data set published by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Over the years this data set, due to the way in which the data is collected, has ...
U.S. Bilateral Trade with its Major Trading Partners and Russia
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This study examines U.S. exports and imports to/from its major 15 trading partners and Russia. To analyze U.S. export and import flows the gravity model approach is used. Factors affecting U.S. bilateral trade flows with ...
Pricing Genetically Modified Output Traits and Effects on Competing Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2007)
This study develops a framework for pricing output traits derived from agriculture biotechnology and the effects on competing technologies post-introduction of the genetically modified (GM) variety. The price impact model ...
Bidding Competition and Supply Chain Risk in Soybean Exports
(North Dakota State University, 2018)
Commodity trading at both domestic and international levels involves many sources of supply chain risk and uncertainty. Risk management techniques are utilized by industry participants; however, there are unknown risks ...
Determinants of Bilateral Trade between the United States and Japan
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of macroeconomic policy variables on bilateral trade between the United States and Japan. An auto-regressive distributed lag model is developed to estimate the effects ...