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Ethanol Policy, Commodity Revenue, and Import Quantity Demand: The United States and Brazil
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Brazil and the United States have been major players in the ethanol industry for over a decade. Both countries have a strong policy backing to push the production and use of the renewable fuel while other parts of the world ...
Ex-Ante Temporal Optimization in Soybean Origination: An Overdetermined Approach Through Deep Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Digitization is influencing commodity trading and agricultural markets and as they transition towards extreme liquidity, agribusiness risk exposures increase, and traditional competitive advantages diminish. In commodity ...
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 ...
Optimization of Coverage Ratios for Basis and Freight Trading Portfolios
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
Changing commodity prices create opportunities for traders to profit or experience substantial losses if risk is not managed. Extensive research has been presented regarding optimal hedging strategies using futures markets ...
Modeling the Impacts of Changing Agricultural Patterns on Rainfall and Temperature in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Global climate change has been an issue of much concern for many years now with human activity being the main contributor to this phenomenon. However, some evidence in the United States Midwest suggests that there has been ...
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 ...
The Effect of Property Tax Relief on K-12 Education Expenditures in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2021)
North Dakota implemented two pieces of legislation in 2009 and 2013 to reduce property tax burdens. These policies encouraged local school districts to lower their property-tax mill rates and provided intergovernmental ...
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 ...
Income and Price Effect on Bilateral Trade and Consumption Through Expenditure Channel: A Case of Chickpea
(North Dakota State University, 2020)
Income and price affect chickpea trade expenditure and consumption expenditure share respectively. An empirical model was estimated to examine the trade effect through the expenditure channel using Almost Ideal Demand ...
A Meta-Analysis of Studies Addressing the Impact of GBH on Human, Animal Health and the Environment
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
The herbicide glyphosate has been tested and approved by both the FDA and the USDA, as evidenced by many published research papers, i.e., they are deemed safe for humans, animals, and the environment. However, evidence is ...