Browsing Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses by Title
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Rail Car Trip Transit Time and the Effects on Grain Trading Company Profits
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This examines the logistic process of a grain trading company, and how logistics affect profits. Trip transit time is the amount of times a shuttle train moves back and forth from an elevator and a destination. In the years ... -
Real Option Analysis of Primary Rail Contracts in Grain Shipping
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Grain shipping for a country elevator involves many sources of risk and uncertainty. In response to these dynamic challenges faced by shippers, railroad carriers offer various types of forward contracting instruments and ... -
Real Options for Agriculture Technology: A Venture Capital Valuation Approach
(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 ... -
A Reference Price Model of Sugar Consumption with Implications on Obesity
(North Dakota State University, 2007)Obesity has increased dramatically in the past 25 years. The consumption of added sugar has increased significantly during the same time period. Previous research indicates a direct correlation between the consumption of ... -
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 ... -
The Relationship between Water Pollution and Economic Growth Using the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Case Study in South Korea
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This thesis reviews relationships between economic growth and water pollution in South Korea using the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). Both national perspective (pooled data) and regional perspective (each river) are ... -
Reservoir Recreation Analysis: The Effect of Reservoir Management Agency on Recreation Participation
(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 ... -
Risk Balancing in the Banking Sector
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Policies to help banks reduce risks could have a null effect or completely opposite effect because firms exhibit a preferred risk level. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of risk balancing in the banking ... -
Risk Management Strategies for Commodity Processors
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Recent years have witnessed an increase in agricultural commodity price volatility. This thesis analyzes different models to derive optimal hedge strategies for commodity processors, with two components addressed. One is ... -
Risk Perception, Bias, and Resistance to New Food Tech: The Case of GMOS
(North Dakota State University, 2020)GMOs are very controversial among consumers. Many fear that they may have risks scientists are not accounting for. Some GMOs, such as GMO soybean oil, have concerns over their processing methods as well. Traditional ... -
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 ... -
Robust Capital Asset Pricing Model Estimation through Cross-Validation
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Limitations of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) continue to present inconsistent empirical results despite its rm mathematical foundations provided in recent studies. In this thesis, we examine how estimation errors of ... -
Role of Politically Linked Agricultural Policy and Trade on the Performance of Turkish Agriculture
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The Republic of Turkey has seen a rise in its gross domestic products (GDP), a fall in the share of agriculture percentage of GDP and a contributive role of politically connected development plans that introduce agricultural ... -
The Role of Trade Facilitation Indicators and Genetically Engineered Restrictive Index on U.S. State Exports and Efficiency
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Trade Facilitation Indicators have become important mechanisms of monitoring the ease of trade. Another issue of rising concern is the pervasive debate on genetically engineered organisms and the development of Genetically ... -
Soybean Quality and Market Factor Influence on North Dakota Origin Basis Values
(North Dakota State University, 2020)In North Dakota, origin soybean basis values place risk on market participants involved with trading the commodity. Researchers study market factors that influence origin basis values in order to better understand basis ... -
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 ... -
A Stochastic Simulation of the North Dakota Ethanol Production Incentive
(North Dakota State University, 2009)The objective of this research is to determine the effect the North Dakota Ethanol Production Incentive has on ethanol plant survivability. This thesis uses a stochastic simulation to show the financial performance of an ... -
A Study of North Dakota Crop Basis Volatility: A Mixed Model Approach to Temporally and Spatially Analyze Unobserved Basis Determinants
(North Dakota State University, 2017)A model of local elevator basis levels was developed to quantify the response of corn, soybean and hard red spring wheat basis to a set of predefined predictors. Basis data from 2013 – 2016 for 12 grain elevators in Eastern ... -
A Study on Consumers’ Purchasing Intention According to Message Frame Regarding Food Safety Issues
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Three cases of food safety issue occurred in South Korea were chosen to test whether message frames influence on consumers’ purchasing intention. In addition, this study not only investigates the relationships among ... -
A Study on Factors Affecting U.S. Bilateral Trade with Her Major Trading Partners
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The objective of this study is to analyze factors affecting U.S. bilateral trade with her major trading partners, including exchange rate, GDP, economic structure, market openness, and free trade agreements. Six commodity ...