Browsing Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses by Title
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Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Toxic Air Pollutants in Trucking Efficiency and Productivity
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Air pollution is a threat to the environment and human health. Freight trucking in particular is the main source of freight transportation emissions. Heavy-duty trucks emit large amounts of toxic air pollutants that cause ... -
Adolescent Food Consumption in Urban China: Factors Influencing BMI and School Meals
(North Dakota State University, 2013)China’s food consumption patterns are changing as the population becomes wealthier and more urban. As the country ages, today’s adolescents will be tomorrow’s consumers. Few studies have focused on this important ... -
An Analysis of Emergent Behavior in the North Dakota Water Depot-Based Water Allocation System using a Decentralized Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Water demand has increased exponentially since 2007 in western North Dakota. This increase can largely be traced to the advancement of technology in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) which has led to one of the largest oil ... -
An Analysis of Financial Risk Measures within Agricultural Cooperatives
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Agricultural Cooperatives have been facing times of low financial risk in the previous years. However, this is expected to change in the near future and controlling for financial risk will become an increasing concern. A ... -
Applications in Harnessing the Power of Behavioral Nudge Theory
(North Dakota State University, 2024)This research encompasses two experimental studies aimed at exploring the potential of behavioral nudges to instigate positive change. The first experiment evaluates the use of visual cues, such as posters and footprints, ... -
Applying SERF Analysis to Rank Procurement Strategies for a North Dakota Green Field Pea Processor
(North Dakota State University, 2014)There are many crops grown in North Dakota, but only a few have a futures market for prices and are grown readily throughout the country. The specialty crops in North Dakota display many of the same characteristics such ... -
Bankruptcy Model Application to Missouri River Water Allocation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Growing demand for water and improper resource management over the years have led conflicts among states and countries. This research applies cooperative game theory. The bankruptcy model, where claims for resources exceed ... -
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 ... -
Business Risk, Financial Risk, and Liquidity Management on U.S. Farms - Evidence From Selected States
(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 ... -
Charitable Donations
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Attracting donors to a charity and retaining continuous donations is one of the major concerns of a charity, because this largely affect the capacity of the charity to continue on their cause or to expand their cause. As ... -
China’s Urban Household Food Consumption, Nutrition and Health
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The effect of family structure on household nutrition intake and the effect of wine, beer, and spirits consumption on household nutrition and health are examined. To evaluate nutrition intake, an Eating Healthy Index (EHI) ... -
Comparative Analysis of the Profit Risk in the Cultivation of Energy Beet in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Energy beet is a promising ethanol feedstock as it did not compromise the food security given it is not used as a food or feed. Although the technological and financial feasibility studies were available the risk of yield ... -
Comparing Genetic Modification and Genetic Editing Technolgies: Minimal Required Acreage
(North Dakota State University, 2018)There are many technologies being developed for crop breeding. Two interesting technologies are genetic modification and genetic editing. Competitive pressures and changing consumer preferences are forcing organizations ... -
Contribution of Public Investments and Innovations to Total Factor Productivity
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This study examines the importance of public research and development (R&D) expenditures and innovations (prices) to U S agricultural productivity employing panel vector error correction econometric technique Specifically, ... -
Costs and Risks of Testing and Blending for EAA in Soybeans
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Soybean quality is typically measured by protein values. Essential Amino Acids (EAA) and Critical Amino Acid Value (CAAV) provide alternative measures of valuing soybeans. The following thesis analyzes the effects of testing ... -
Creating a Transportation Strategy for North Dakota Exporters
(North Dakota State University, 2010)North Dakota's transportation problem is centered on geography and volume. Being a land-locked state and not having an intermodal facility within the economic range of 150 miles from North Dakota production sites, ... -
Decision Tree and Real Options to Value Agtech Startup Growth
(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 ... -
Determinants for Biofuel Policies in the Americas
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The biofuels market has been increasingly important due to the benefits they provide to society by giving an alternative to fossil fuels. In the Americas, many countries are using biofuel-related policies to incentivize ... -
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 ... -
Determinants of Capital Structure in Agricultural Cooperatives in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis analyzes how the optimal capital structure is affected by capital management and major sources of risk under the rule of maximizing the value of discounted cash flows to members. The analysis is done by using ...