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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 ...
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 ...
Determining Farmers’ Preferences for a Working Wetlands Program
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Wetlands play important role in the ecosystem and are a link between land and water. This study investigates a voluntary working wetlands pilot program focusing on small, temporary and seasonal wetlands present on croplands. ...
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 ...
The Impact of Multilateral Trade Association Membership on Agricultural and Food Trade
(North Dakota State University, 2007)
This thesis models trade flows between countries as a function of several variables, including those representing membership in multilateral trade agreements (MTAs). The objective of this research is to evaluate the impact ...
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 ...