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Filling in Missing Values in the North Dakota Land Valuation Model
(North Dakota State University, 2013)
The North Dakota Land Valuation Model relies on a crop yield data set published by the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Over the years this data set, due to the way in which the data is collected, has ...
U.S. Bilateral Trade with its Major Trading Partners and Russia
(North Dakota State University, 2011)
This study examines U.S. exports and imports to/from its major 15 trading partners and Russia. To analyze U.S. export and import flows the gravity model approach is used. Factors affecting U.S. bilateral trade flows with ...
Pricing Genetically Modified Output Traits and Effects on Competing Technologies
(North Dakota State University, 2007)
This study develops a framework for pricing output traits derived from agriculture biotechnology and the effects on competing technologies post-introduction of the genetically modified (GM) variety. The price impact model ...
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 ...
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 ...
Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption and Usage in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2019)
The world population is projected to rise, and there is a growing concern of future food availability. Precision agriculture technologies are one solution to this problem as they aim to produce more food on less land. This ...
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 ...
An Economic Assessment of Genetic Information: Leptin Genotyping of Breeding Cattle
(North Dakota State University, 2006)
Recent studies show polymorphisms in the leptin gene significantly impact milk production in dairy cattle. If the leptin gene were to have a similar impact on beef cattle, calf weaning weights would be expected to increase ...
A Historical Analysis of Natural Gas Demand
(North Dakota State University, 2014)
This thesis analyzes demand in the US energy market for natural gas, oil, and coal over the period of 1918-2013 and examines their price relationship over the period of 2007-2013. Diagnostic tests for time series were used; ...
Valuing and Pricing of Random and Non-Persistent Genetically Modified Traits (Corn and HRSW)
(North Dakota State University, 2009)
With many genetic traits discovered and many more in progress, it is imperative to the industry that firms (biotechnology companies) decide on the trait valuation and pricing. This includes more than one trait (also referred ...