• Decision Tree and Real Options to Value Agtech Startup Growth 

  Kallman, Dylan (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Agtech startups face multiple uncertainties and have limited flexibility when it comes to growing their business. Companies that are growing ultimately need to take on new capital. This new capital can be from many different ...

• Economic Benefits of Precision Agricultural Technologies 

  Jahan, Mohsina (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The purpose of this research was to build a model of profitability that can be used by individual farmers to calculate the net benefits of using precision agricultural technologies on their farms. Three case farms were ...

• Farmers' Preference to Precision Agriculture Data Management: A Discrete Choice Experiment 

  Idowu, Abiodun (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  There is no legal or regulatory framework that protects a farmer’s right to control the data generated from their use of precision agriculture. This may impede the adoption of new precision agricultural technologies. Using ...

• Mapping the Unconventional Monetary Policy of the Fed with Financial Market 

  Gupta, Proma Sen (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The value of currency in circulation and the value of the assets side of the balance sheet has become a choice variable for implementing policy under the monetary policy framework introduced by Ben Bernanke during the 2008 ...

• Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Housing Markets 

  Chowdhury, Tuhinur Rahman (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Efficient housing markets are critical for economic stability in the United States. Over one million people died in the United States from COVID-19. One method employed to halt the spread of the virus were stay-at-home ...

• Reservoir Recreation Analysis: The Effect of Reservoir Management Agency on Recreation Participation 

  Boateng, Mary Mena (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  Dams and reservoirs are created to provide flood control, water storage for irrigation and water supply, recreation, and hydroelectric generation. Most US reservoirs provide recreation in some form. However, there are ...

• A Meta-Analysis of Studies Addressing the Impact of GBH on Human, Animal Health and the Environment 

  Barnor, Kodjo (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  The herbicide glyphosate has been tested and approved by both the FDA and the USDA, as evidenced by many published research papers, i.e., they are deemed safe for humans, animals, and the environment. However, evidence is ...

• Natural Disasters, Institutions, and Economic Recovery: Effects of Hurricane Katrina 

  Clark, Corbin Carl Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2022)

  This study analyzes the effects of Hurricane Katrina on formal and informal institutions in Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi to provide insights into the recovery trajectories of the states. I use the synthetic control ...

• Effect of Contract Attribute Levels on Willingness to Participate in a Working Wetlands Program 

  Coffield, Haley (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Wetlands are an integral part of duck habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region, which covers three Canadian provinces and five U.S. states. They often overlap with cropland, creating issues for farmers. A program that provided ...

• The Effect of Property Tax Relief on K-12 Education Expenditures in North Dakota 

  Nichols, Kole Allen (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  North Dakota implemented two pieces of legislation in 2009 and 2013 to reduce property tax burdens. These policies encouraged local school districts to lower their property-tax mill rates and provided intergovernmental ...

• Optimization of Coverage Ratios for Basis and Freight Trading Portfolios 

  Kroll, Adam Joseph (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Changing commodity prices create opportunities for traders to profit or experience substantial losses if risk is not managed. Extensive research has been presented regarding optimal hedging strategies using futures markets ...

• Ethanol Policy, Commodity Revenue, and Import Quantity Demand: The United States and Brazil 

  Diffely, Bree Lyn (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Brazil and the United States have been major players in the ethanol industry for over a decade. Both countries have a strong policy backing to push the production and use of the renewable fuel while other parts of the world ...

• Marijuana Legalization Effect on Opioid Abuse: A Synthetic Control Approach 

  Denkyirah, Elisha Kwaku (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts ...

• Ex-Ante Temporal Optimization in Soybean Origination: An Overdetermined Approach Through Deep Learning 

  Carlson, Noah Joseph (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Digitization is influencing commodity trading and agricultural markets and as they transition towards extreme liquidity, agribusiness risk exposures increase, and traditional competitive advantages diminish. In commodity ...

• The United States and Brazil - Spatial and Logistical Interdependence for Soybean Shipments to China 

  Scheresky, Gwen Marie (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Analyzing the United States/Brazil competition for market share of Chinese soybean imports requires a detailed, stochastic approach. Using data from 2013 to 2019, this thesis attempts to model and explain the change in ...

• Home Purchase Restriction Impact on House Prices 

  Sun, Kangxin (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  With the development of the economy, the real estate industry has increasingly become a major component of China's national economic growth. In this paper, I use a house sales transaction dataset collected from a publicly ...

• Examining Integration, Efficiency and Technical Change in Chinese Pork Production 

  Tian, Yongxia (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Pork has been the main protein source for the Chinese millennia. Though China is the largest pork producer in the world, multiple challenges hinder development of pork production and hence demand are difficult to satisfy. ...

• Real Options for Agriculture Technology: A Venture Capital Valuation Approach 

  Vetsch, Lee Thomas (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  For startups and young companies, there is significant uncertainty and managerial flexibility within a company’s business model, research and development (R&D) processes, and commercialization strategy. These characteristics ...

• Business Risk, Financial Risk, and Liquidity Management on U.S. Farms - Evidence From Selected States 

  Allahverdiyev, Emin (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  Risk management is pivotal to agribusiness decision-making, and researchers have developed various models to disentangle factors underlying farmers’ risk decisions. This thesis argues that an appropriate model should ...

• Global Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War in Agricultural Sector 

  Adom, Enoch (North Dakota State University, 2021)

  This thesis examined the impact of the U.S-China trade war on the global, U.S, and China’s agricultural exports while considering the competing suppliers’ effect using a highly disaggregated HS 6-digit trade flow data in ...

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