Browsing Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses by Title
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Factors Influencing Potato Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2008)Spatial shifts and structural changes continue to occur in the United States agricultural industry. Researchers have documented that the potato industry has changed in response to demands of consumers, expectations of ... -
Farmers' Preference to Precision Agriculture Data Management: A Discrete Choice Experiment
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Food Away from Home Consumption in Urban China: Household Composition and Dining Location Effects
(North Dakota State University, 2013)China has experienced dramatic changes in food industry in the last three decades, with demographics changed substantially as well. Households are becoming smaller and are expected to age soon. Overweight and obesity have ... -
A Game Theory Analysis of Firm Reaction to External Organizational Demands: The Case of Animal Welfare Standards
(North Dakota State University, 2007)There has been increasing public concern about farm animal welfare regarding transportation, slaughter, and some management practices, especially in systems where animals are confined for most of their existence. Animal ... -
Global Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War in Agricultural Sector
(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 ... -
Grains, Trains and Aqua-Mobiles
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Grain shippers are constantly faced with making merchandising and logistical decisions while trying to achieve a positive net margin. They have to decide how much grain to sell and when the most opportune time to do so ... -
Hedging Default and Price Risks in Commodity Trading
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Many risk factors exist in the commodity markets, especially those related to price and quantity. Recently, the risk of counterparty default has been increasing. The purpose of this study is to develop a portfolio-hedging ... -
Hispanics Immigrants on the Fields: Is Discrimination a Barrier to Get Non-Agricultural Jobs?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This research presents evidence supporting the existence of differences in treatments received by Hispanics job-seekers on agricultural and non-agricultural labor markets found through an experimental labor market. Hispanics ... -
A Historical Analysis of Natural Gas Demand
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis analyzes demand in the US energy market for natural gas, oil, and coal over the period of 1918-2013 and examines their price relationship over the period of 2007-2013. Diagnostic tests for time series were used; ... -
Home Purchase Restriction Impact on House Prices
(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 ... -
How U.S. Agriculture Adjusts to Energy Price Changes
(North Dakota State University, 2007)The primary objective of this research is to measure the impacts of rising energy prices on U.S. agriculture and to analyze the capability of U.S. agricultural producers to adjust for energy price volatility. This study ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...