Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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An Analysis of Emergent Behavior in the North Dakota Water Depot-Based Water Allocation System using a Decentralized Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Water demand has increased exponentially since 2007 in western North Dakota. This increase can largely be traced to the advancement of technology in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) which has led to one of the largest oil ... -
Valuation of Licensing Agreements in Agriculture Biotechnology
(North Dakota State University, 2016)As demand for agricultural commodities expands throughout the world, competitors are finding it advantageous to form strategic partnerships. Firms seek to collaborate in an organized effort to advance technology as quickly ... -
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. ... -
Rail Car Trip Transit Time and the Effects on Grain Trading Company Profits
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This examines the logistic process of a grain trading company, and how logistics affect profits. Trip transit time is the amount of times a shuttle train moves back and forth from an elevator and a destination. In the years ... -
Minimum Cost Beef Backgrounding Ration Utilizing Alternative Feedstuffs and Stochastic Prices
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Cattle producers on the Northern Great Plains have many feedstuffs available. Feedstuffs comprise a large portion of direct costs producers face, and to be profit maximizing producers they look to minimize this cost. This ... -
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 ... -
Hedging Default and Price Risks in Commodity Trading
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Many risk factors exist in the commodity markets, especially those related to price and quantity. Recently, the risk of counterparty default has been increasing. The purpose of this study is to develop a portfolio-hedging ... -
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. ... -
The Risks Associated with Barley Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The market for barley has shifted from a demand for exports and livestock feed, to a demand for human food and alcohol production. Due to the crop qualities required for malting in the alcohol industry, barley is perceived ... -
Understanding Changes in the Distribution of House Prices in Beijing, China
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This thesis provides some evidences in understanding house price in Beijing. The rst part examines appreciation rate of house price across the distribution from 2013 to 2015. Similar temporal patterns of appreciation ... -
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 ... -
Importance of Contract Attributes on Conservation Reserve Program Enrollment Decisions in the Prairie Pothole Region
(North Dakota State University, 2015)U.S. farmers’ interest in CRP has waned. Enrollment for 2015 was targeted at 26 million acres but as of the end of February, actual enrollment had declined to 24.6 million acres (USDA, 2015). Available studies point to ... -
Effect of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection on Airfares in the U.S. Domestic Airline Industry
(North Dakota State University, 2015)I empirically examine the effects of bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) on airfares in the U.S. domestic airline industry using cross sectional air tickets data from 2001:Q1 through 2012:Q4. A hedonic price model was ... -
Effect of Deregulation and Off-Balance Sheet Activities on the X-Efficiency of U.S. Credit Unions
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The 1998 Credit Union Membership Access Act resulted in the active dissolution of the common bond requirement. Now credit unions are able to include more geographic area into their member base. However, over the years the ... -
Costs and Risks of Testing and Blending for EAA in Soybeans
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Soybean quality is typically measured by protein values. Essential Amino Acids (EAA) and Critical Amino Acid Value (CAAV) provide alternative measures of valuing soybeans. The following thesis analyzes the effects of testing ... -
Risk Balancing in the Banking Sector
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Policies to help banks reduce risks could have a null effect or completely opposite effect because firms exhibit a preferred risk level. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of risk balancing in the banking ... -
A Multivariate Approach to Forecasting Dairy Imports
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The global economy is becoming more connected with every passing year. Developing countries continue to lift themselves out of poverty and their markets are hungry for the opportunity to trade goods with nations all over ... -
The Effects of Exchange Rate on Bilateral Trade Between the United States and South Korea
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The objective of this study is to examine the effects of exchange rate on bilateral trade between the United States and South Korea. The panel data for each commodity group over the period from 1989 to 2013 are employed ... -
Impact of Trade Openness on Technical Efficiency: Agricultural Sector of the European Union
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis examines the impact of trade openness (TOP) on technical efficiency (TE) in the agricultural sector of the European Union (EU). The hypothesis is that TOP, the share of agricultural imports and exports relative ... -
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 ...