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Examining Integration, Efficiency and Technical Change in Chinese Pork Production
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Pork has been the main protein source for the Chinese millennia. Though China is the largest pork producer in the world, multiple challenges hinder development of pork production and hence demand are difficult to satisfy. ...
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 ...
Effect of Contract Attribute Levels on Willingness to Participate in a Working Wetlands Program
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Wetlands are an integral part of duck habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region, which covers three Canadian provinces and five U.S. states. They often overlap with cropland, creating issues for farmers. A program that provided ...
Natural Disasters, Institutions, and Economic Recovery: Effects of Hurricane Katrina
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
This study analyzes the effects of Hurricane Katrina on formal and informal institutions in Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi to provide insights into the recovery trajectories of the states. I use the synthetic control ...
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 ...
The United States and Brazil - Spatial and Logistical Interdependence for Soybean Shipments to China
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Analyzing the United States/Brazil competition for market share of Chinese soybean imports requires a detailed, stochastic approach. Using data from 2013 to 2019, this thesis attempts to model and explain the change in ...
Valuing Origin Switching Options Using Monte Carlo Simulation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Commodity trading firms work to remain competitive in the evolving agricultural industry. They work to become more efficient by increasing economies of size and scale, vertically and horizontally integrating, and diversifying ...
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 ...
Marijuana Legalization Effect on Opioid Abuse: A Synthetic Control Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
The opioid epidemic constitutes one of the worst drug crises in the history of U.S. State-level policies, in general, have done little to prevent prescription opioid abuse. A noteworthy exception to other clinical efforts ...
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 ...