Agribusiness & Applied Economics Masters Theses: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Effect of Food Safety and Quality on the Consumption and Price of Meat in Beijing, China
(North Dakota State University, 2011)China's economic success has helped it become one of the largest markets in the world. As a result, the demand for agricultural commodities in China has experienced a significant increase. Increasingly affluent Chinese ... -
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 ... -
North Dakota Beef Cow Operators: Identifying Current Management Practices and Factors that Influence Adoption Rates of Best Management Practices Relating to Surface Water Pollution
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Best management practices are methods that have been determined to be the most effective and practical means of preventing or reducing pollution. Best Management Practices (BMPs) relating to surface water pollution abatement ... -
Robust Capital Asset Pricing Model Estimation through Cross-Validation
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Limitations of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) continue to present inconsistent empirical results despite its rm mathematical foundations provided in recent studies. In this thesis, we examine how estimation errors of ... -
The Role of Trade Facilitation Indicators and Genetically Engineered Restrictive Index on U.S. State Exports and Efficiency
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Trade Facilitation Indicators have become important mechanisms of monitoring the ease of trade. Another issue of rising concern is the pervasive debate on genetically engineered organisms and the development of Genetically ... -
Estimating the Economic Benefits of Automatic Section Control in the North Dakota Prairie Pothole Region
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The impact of Automatic Section Control (ASC) as a tool of Precision Agricultural Technology as considered in the more efficient application of inputs to produce the four major crops, corn, soybean, HRSW, and canola in the ... -
Economic Efficiency of Occupational Health and Safety Investments at Agricultural Cooperatives
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Industries related to agricultural cooperatives record some of the highest injury rates in the U.S. Therefore, agricultural cooperatives are highly motivated to invest in occupational health and safety (OHS). This thesis ... -
On the Profitability of UAS-Based NDVI Imagery for Variable Rate Nitrogen Prescriptions in Corn and Wheat in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2018)This study examines the grower’s decision to invest in precision agriculture technologies especially in-season variable rate nitrogen applications based on NDVI data collected from UAVs. NDVI, yield, soil, and other field ... -
Charitable Donations
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Attracting donors to a charity and retaining continuous donations is one of the major concerns of a charity, because this largely affect the capacity of the charity to continue on their cause or to expand their cause. As ... -
Real Option Analysis of Primary Rail Contracts in Grain Shipping
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Grain shipping for a country elevator involves many sources of risk and uncertainty. In response to these dynamic challenges faced by shippers, railroad carriers offer various types of forward contracting instruments and ... -
Yield Efficiency Using a Stochastic Frontier Approach for Corn, Soybeans, and Hard Red Spring Wheat in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Agriculture is a keystone for the North Dakota economy. The research focused on three selected crops’ yield: corn, soybeans and HRS wheat. The research provides a direct and indirect cumulative elasticity measure for North ... -
A Study of North Dakota Crop Basis Volatility: A Mixed Model Approach to Temporally and Spatially Analyze Unobserved Basis Determinants
(North Dakota State University, 2017)A model of local elevator basis levels was developed to quantify the response of corn, soybean and hard red spring wheat basis to a set of predefined predictors. Basis data from 2013 – 2016 for 12 grain elevators in Eastern ... -
Optimization of Soybean Buying Strategies Using Derivatives
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The portfolio model of hedging framework, based off Markowitz (1952), is used to determine the best mix of futures, basis, and option contracts to hedge a soybean purchase from PNW 28 weeks in to the future. Eighteen options ... -
Economic Freedom and Philanthropy
(North Dakota State University, 2017)This thesis provides an empirical testing of the relationship between economic freedom and philanthropy. At present, a wealth of literature exists on the relationship between economic freedom and other macroeconomic ... -
An Analysis of Financial Risk Measures within Agricultural Cooperatives
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Agricultural Cooperatives have been facing times of low financial risk in the previous years. However, this is expected to change in the near future and controlling for financial risk will become an increasing concern. A ... -
China’s Urban Household Food Consumption, Nutrition and Health
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The effect of family structure on household nutrition intake and the effect of wine, beer, and spirits consumption on household nutrition and health are examined. To evaluate nutrition intake, an Eating Healthy Index (EHI) ... -
Determinants for Biofuel Policies in the Americas
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The biofuels market has been increasingly important due to the benefits they provide to society by giving an alternative to fossil fuels. In the Americas, many countries are using biofuel-related policies to incentivize ... -
Hispanics Immigrants on the Fields: Is Discrimination a Barrier to Get Non-Agricultural Jobs?
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This research presents evidence supporting the existence of differences in treatments received by Hispanics job-seekers on agricultural and non-agricultural labor markets found through an experimental labor market. Hispanics ...