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Identifying Beneficial Attributes of Water Management Organizations
(North Dakota State University, 2007)Water Management Organizations (WMOs) have evolved from their inception in the early 1900s and continue to evolve today. Recently, WMOs have increased their awareness of water-quality and environmental issues. WMOs evolve ... -
Impact of Agricultural Productivity Changes on Agricultural Exports
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study uses linear programming and econometric tools to determine the impact of agricultural productivity (technology) on agricultural exports. The study determines total factor productivity (TFP) using the Malmquist ... -
Impact of Climate Change and Weather Variability on North Dakota Agriculture
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study used county-level yields and panel data (1950-2006) to explain the Impact of climate change and weather variability on North Dakota agriculture by estimating the effect of variation in temperature and precipitation ... -
Impact of Economic, Political, and Socio-Demographic Factors on the Parliamentary Election Outcomes in Central and Eastern European Countries
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study determines how economic, political, and socio-demographic factors impact the parliamentary election outcomes in central and eastern European countries in transition period. A one-way fixed-effect method has been ... -
Impact of Federal Crop Insurance on North Dakota Agriculture Production Efficiency
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This study examines the impact of three major policy shifts in federal crop insurance on North Dakota agriculture production efficiency. An empirical application of 53 counties in North Dakota from 1980 to 2014 indicates ... -
The Impact of Multilateral Trade Association Membership on Agricultural and Food Trade
(North Dakota State University, 2007)This thesis models trade flows between countries as a function of several variables, including those representing membership in multilateral trade agreements (MTAs). The objective of this research is to evaluate the impact ... -
The Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act on Sub-Sahara African Value-Added Agricultural Exports
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis uses new measures of value added trade for agricultural exports which originate from Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries and go to the United States of America (U.S.A.). First, the impact of the African Growth ... -
The Impact of the Panama Canal Expansion on U.S. Soybean Exports
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Panama Canal Expansion on the flow of soybeans from producing regions in the U.S. to its ports for export. Specific objectives of this study were to determine ... -
Impact of Trade Openness on Technical Efficiency: Agricultural Sector of the European Union
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis examines the impact of trade openness (TOP) on technical efficiency (TE) in the agricultural sector of the European Union (EU). The hypothesis is that TOP, the share of agricultural imports and exports relative ... -
The Impacts of Cost-Reducing Technology in the Gold and Oil Industries
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis explores the question of what drives the development of cost-reducing technology. It will also explore this question in the gold and oil industries. It will integrate Paul Romer’s idea that investment in ... -
The Impacts of Expected Structural Changes in Demand for Agricultural Commodities in China and India on World Agriculture
(North Dakota State University, 2009)The objective of this study is to evaluate the changes in import and export demand in China and India on the United States and global agriculture in 2018. A spatial equilibrium model is developed to optimize production and ... -
Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Housing Markets
(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 ... -
Importance of Contract Attributes on Conservation Reserve Program Enrollment Decisions in the Prairie Pothole Region
(North Dakota State University, 2015)U.S. farmers’ interest in CRP has waned. Enrollment for 2015 was targeted at 26 million acres but as of the end of February, actual enrollment had declined to 24.6 million acres (USDA, 2015). Available studies point to ... -
Income and Price Effect on Bilateral Trade and Consumption Through Expenditure Channel: A Case of Chickpea
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Income and price affect chickpea trade expenditure and consumption expenditure share respectively. An empirical model was estimated to examine the trade effect through the expenditure channel using Almost Ideal Demand ... -
India's Ethanol Import Demand: A Structural Model Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2020)In 2020 India is expected to be a net importer of ethanol for the 6th year in a row since 2012 (Aradhey, Amit, 2019). The drivers of net importation are government policy, strong economic growth, and weak domestic ethanol ... -
Interest Rate and Commodity Price Impacts on Farm-Level Financials
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The agriculture industry has been around for hundreds of years. Although farmers and ranchers work every day to put food on the tables of billions of people from all around the world, most agricultural producers require ... -
Intermarket Trading Strategies and Risk
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The purpose of this thesis is to research methods that will be used to discover the profitability and risk of spatially arbitraging soybeans. A portfolio is used to analyze trading strategies, and the dependence measures ... -
Investigation of the International Food-Grade Soybean Market
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study provides an overview of the international soybean market and takes a look at a case study of an exporter and their target markets, China, Japan, and South Korea. Then it estimates future soybean import demands ... -
Investing in United States Farmland: A Capital Asset Pricing Model Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This study examines the risk and returns to owning United States farmland. State, regional, and national farmland returns from 1998 to 2018 are analyzed via the capital asset pricing model. Results show that farmland may ... -
Lipoic Acid Supplementation in the Ovariectomized Ewe
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Inadequate concentrations of progesterone during gestation can result in impaired embryonic growth and losses. These losses may be attributed to an overactive mechanism of progesterone catabolism or improper luteal function, ...