Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Bankruptcy Model Application to Missouri River Water Allocation
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Growing demand for water and improper resource management over the years have led conflicts among states and countries. This research applies cooperative game theory. The bankruptcy model, where claims for resources exceed ... -
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 ... -
The Impacts of Cost-Reducing Technology in the Gold and Oil Industries
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis explores the question of what drives the development of cost-reducing technology. It will also explore this question in the gold and oil industries. It will integrate Paul Romer’s idea that investment in ... -
Investing in United States Farmland: A Capital Asset Pricing Model Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This study examines the risk and returns to owning United States farmland. State, regional, and national farmland returns from 1998 to 2018 are analyzed via the capital asset pricing model. Results show that farmland may ... -
Trade in CRISPR/Gene-Edited Wheat: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Previous studies have analyzed how the adoption of genetically engineered or modified technologies have affected agricultural crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton, and barley without focusing on wheat. Also, given the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interest Rate and Commodity Price Impacts on Farm-Level Financials
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The agriculture industry has been around for hundreds of years. Although farmers and ranchers work every day to put food on the tables of billions of people from all around the world, most agricultural producers require ...