Integrated Data and Information Systems for Agricultural Economic Research in the 1990's

Dean T. Chen

No 257927, Staff Reports from Texas A&M University, Agricultural and Food Policy Center

Abstract: This paper provides a state-of-the-art assessment of an integrated database and information system for research in a university environment. It begins with a review of the innovation and diffusion of computer-based information technologies, then follows with an evaluation of three technological frontiers, and a demonstration of the importance of system integration. Implications of new information technologies are analyzed with respect to agricultural economic research. The illustrative example given is the integration of a database management system with an on-line and ongoing large-scale econometric modeling system. A broad spectrum of database management techniques are employed for a multi-commodity, multi-frequency farm commodity sector model of cotton used for ongoing forecast and interactive policy analysis.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1989-09-01
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.257927

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