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Optimal Inventory Strategy Under Risk: A Contingent Claims Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
Inventory management in the agriculture industry involves many sources of risk in terms of demand uncertainty as well as uncertain margins. Divulging an optimal inventory strategy can prove cumbersome to logistics managers. ...
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 ...
The Effect of Export Promotion Programs on Establishing Export Markets
(North Dakota State University, 2010)
There is a pattern of growth throughout agribusiness in North Dakota in which agricultural products ranging from commodities to machinery have all seen growth since 2000. Exports have contributed to most of this production ...
Effect of Economic Freedom on Social Capital Panel Evidence from U.S. Contiguous States
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This thesis examines the relationship between economic freedom and social capital in U.S. contiguous states from the 1980s to the 2000s as there is a shortcoming of literature on the topic. This study develops a composite ...
Measures of Bank Performance, Liquidity Risk and Their Relationship with Farm Income Volatility
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of farm-level risk on bank
performance in the state of North Dakota. Farm-level risk has been quantified into a single
measure of the volatility of net farm income. ...
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 ...
Effect of Abnormal Loan Growth on U.S. Credit Union Performance
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
This study examined the relationship between abnormally rapid loan growth and its impacts on U.S. credit union performance during 2007 – 2013. Three hypotheses were developed to test whether and how abnormal loan growth ...
Economic Freedom and Philanthropy
(North Dakota State University, 2017)
This thesis provides an empirical testing of the relationship between economic freedom and philanthropy. At present, a wealth of literature exists on the relationship between economic freedom and other macroeconomic ...
Transporting and Disposing of Wastewater from North Dakota Oil Producers
(North Dakota State University, 2012)
North Dakota’s oil boom is aided by a new technology, fracking. But this technology implies large amounts of wastewater. The methods of dealing with this wastewater are now an issue. Currently, North Dakota locks it into ...
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 ...