Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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Stakeholder Preferences for Water Quality Alternatives in the Red River Basin
(North Dakota State University, 2007)The objective of this research is to estimate stakeholder preferences for management alternatives within the Red River of the North basin. Specifically, this thesis analyzes preferences related to water quality, water-based ... -
The Effects of Futures Markets on the Spot Price Volatility of Storable Commodities
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis examines the relationship between spot prices, futures prices, and ending stocks for storable commodities. We used Granger causality and DAGs to determine causal relationships and cointegration tests to determine ... -
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. ... -
A Game Theory Analysis of Firm Reaction to External Organizational Demands: The Case of Animal Welfare Standards
(North Dakota State University, 2007)There has been increasing public concern about farm animal welfare regarding transportation, slaughter, and some management practices, especially in systems where animals are confined for most of their existence. Animal ... -
Time-Varying Estimation of Crop Insurance Program in Altering North Dakota Farm Economic Structure
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study examines how federal farm policies, specifically crop Insurance, have affected the farm economic structure of North Dakota's agriculture sector. The system of derived input demand equations is estimated to ... -
The Valuation of Agricultural Biotechnology: The Real Options Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study develops a real options model of agbiotechnology and is applied to three genetically modified (GM) traits. Each trait is evaluated as growth options where technical or marketing milestones must be completed ... -
Impact of Agricultural Productivity Changes on Agricultural Exports
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study uses linear programming and econometric tools to determine the impact of agricultural productivity (technology) on agricultural exports. The study determines total factor productivity (TFP) using the Malmquist ... -
Examination of North Dakota's Production, Cost, and Profit Functions: A Quantile Regression Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This thesis estimates the production, cost, and profit functions for North Dakota agriculture using state-level input-output quantity and price data for the period 1960-2004. A Cobb-Douglas functional form with Hick-neutral ... -
Impact of Climate Change and Weather Variability on North Dakota Agriculture
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study used county-level yields and panel data (1950-2006) to explain the Impact of climate change and weather variability on North Dakota agriculture by estimating the effect of variation in temperature and precipitation ... -
Logistic Strategies for an Herbaceous Crop Residue-Based Ethanol Production Industry : An Application to Northeastern North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2008)A mixed integer programming model is developed to determine a logistical design for maximizing rates of return to harvest, storage, transportation, and bioreflning of herbaceous crop residue for production of biofuels and ... -
Factors Influencing Potato Production in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2008)Spatial shifts and structural changes continue to occur in the United States agricultural industry. Researchers have documented that the potato industry has changed in response to demands of consumers, expectations of ... -
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 ... -
Impact of Economic, Political, and Socio-Demographic Factors on the Parliamentary Election Outcomes in Central and Eastern European Countries
(North Dakota State University, 2008)This study determines how economic, political, and socio-demographic factors impact the parliamentary election outcomes in central and eastern European countries in transition period. A one-way fixed-effect method has been ... -
A Stochastic Simulation of the North Dakota Ethanol Production Incentive
(North Dakota State University, 2009)The objective of this research is to determine the effect the North Dakota Ethanol Production Incentive has on ethanol plant survivability. This thesis uses a stochastic simulation to show the financial performance of an ... -
The Effect of Lender-Imposed Sweeps on an Ethanol Firm's Ability to Invest in New Technology
(North Dakota State University, 2009)New federal legislation proposes to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with biofuel production. To comply, existing corn ethanol plants will have to invest in new more carbon efficient production technology ... -
Grains, Trains and Aqua-Mobiles
(North Dakota State University, 2010)Grain shippers are constantly faced with making merchandising and logistical decisions while trying to achieve a positive net margin. They have to decide how much grain to sell and when the most opportune time to do so ... -
The Effects of Ethanol Policy on Cattle Production
(North Dakota State University, 2009)Corn-based ethanol production has increased dramatically in the past ten years, causing an increase in demand for corn by ethanol producers and an increase in production of ethanol by-products such as distillers' grains. ... -
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 ... -
Creating a Transportation Strategy for North Dakota Exporters
(North Dakota State University, 2010)North Dakota's transportation problem is centered on geography and volume. Being a land-locked state and not having an intermodal facility within the economic range of 150 miles from North Dakota production sites, ... -
Margin-at-Risk for Agricultural Processors: Flour Milling Scenarios
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Historic market volatility has made risk management decisions by firms in the agricultural supply chain more challenging. Market risk measurement methods, such as Value-at-Risk, were developed in the financial industry to ...