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5076: Comparative Economic Analysis of Perennial, Annual and Intercrops for Biomass Production

Arne Hallam, I. C. Anderson and D. R. Buxton

5075: Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies from the Bottom Up

Leigh Tesfatsion

5074: A Spatial Decision Support System for Livestock Production Planning and Environmental Management

D. K. Jain, U. Tim and Robert W. Jolly

5073: Performance Differences in Swine Finishing Facilities with Natural and Tunnel Ventilation

William M. Edwards

5072: Impact of Cholesterol Information on U.S. Egg Consumption: Evidence from Consumer Survey Data

Qingbin Wang, Helen Jensen and Steven Yen

5071: An Analysis of the Efficient Production Frontier in the Fishery: Implications for Enhanced Fisheries Management

Quinn Weninger

5070: Differing Degrees of Price Flexibilities and the Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition

Stephen Devadoss and David Hennessy

5068: Time Path and Implementation of Carbon Sequestration (The)

Hongli Feng, Jinhua Zhao and Catherine Kling

5067: Fixed Costs, Efficient Resource Management and Conservation

Jinhua Zhao and David Zilberman

5066: Economic Evaluation of the Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

Quinn Weninger and Richard Just

5065: Assessing Efficiency Gains From Individual Transferable Quotas: An Application to the Mid-Atlantic Surf Clam and Ocean Quahog Fishery

Quinn Weninger

5064: Are Crop Yields Normally Distributed?

Quinn Weninger and Richard Just

5062: The Tradeoff Between Oligopsony Power and Cost Efficiency in Horizontal Consolidation: An Example from Beef Packing

Azzeddine Azzam and John Schroeter

5061: Rural Population Growth, 1950-1990: The Roles of Human Capital, Industry Structure and Government Policy

T. Huang, Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth

5059: Prices and Health: Identifying the Effects of Nutrition, Exercise, and Medication Choices on Blood Pressure

S. Chen, Jason Shogren and Peter Orazem

5058: Units of Measurement and the 'Stone Index' In Demand System Estimation

GianCarlo Moschini

5057: An Integrated Perspective on Ph.D. Programs in the Economics Department: A Discussion

John Miranowski

5056: The Environment and the 1995 Farm Bill: Discussion

John Miranowski

5055: Modeling How a Financial Crisis Affects World Agriculture: Discussion

John Miranowski

5054: International Financial Volatility and Agricultural Commodity Trade: A Primer

Suchada Langley, Marcelo Guigale and William H. Meyers

5053: The Economic Value of Minimum-Variance Hedges

Sergio Lence

5052: Farmland Prices in the Presence of Transaction Costs: A Cautionary Note

Sergio Lence

5050: Contracting and Vertical Coordination in the United States Pork Industry

John D. Lawrence and James Kliebenstein

5049: Optimal Production Tax and Quota Under Time Consistent Trade Policies

Jean-Philippe Gervais and Harvey Lapan

5048: Intellectual Property Rights and the Welfare Effects of Agricultural R & D

GianCarlo Moschini and Harvey Lapan

5045: Economic Development, Agricultural Change, and Economic Demography: Discussion

Helen Jensen

5043: Beef and Pork Packing Costs and Input Demands: Effects of Unionization and Technology

Brian Melton and Wallace Huffman

5042: Consumer Preferences for Fresh Food with Multiple Attributes: Evidence from an Experimental Auction of Pork Chops

Brian Melton, Wallace Huffman and Jason Shogren

5041: Convergence in U.S. Productivity Growth for Agriculture: Implications of Interstate Research Spillovers for Funding Agricultural Research

A. McCunn and Wallace Huffman

5040: Setting Efficient Incentives for Agricultural Research: Lessons from Principal-Agent Theory

Wallace Huffman and Richard Just

5039: Agricultural Supply Response Under Contract

Brent Hueth and Ethan Ligon

5038: The Goals of U.S. Agricultural Policy: A Mechanism Design Approach

Brent Hueth

5037: Producer Price Risk and Quality Measurement

Brent Hueth and Ethan Ligon

5036: Agricultural Markets As Relative Performance Evaluation

Brent Hueth and Ethan Ligon

5035: Inducing Patterns Correlation and Substitution in Repeated Logit Model of Recreation Demand

Joseph Herriges and Daniel Phaneuf

5033: Microeconomics of Agricultural Grading: Impacts on the Marketing Channel

David Hennessy

5032: Information Asymmetry As a Reason for Food Industry Vertical Integration

David Hennessy

5031: Effects of Decisionmaking on the Futures Price Volatility, The

David Hennessy and Thomas Wahl

5028: Capturing Experts' Uncertainty in Welfare Analysis: An Application to Organophosphate Use Regulation in U.S. Apple Production

Jutta Roosen and David Hennessy

5026: Planting Decisions and Uncertain Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Crop Varieties

Alexander Saak and David Hennessy

5025: Behavior of Forward-Looking Firms In the Very Short Run (The)

Sergio Lence, Dermot Hayes and William H. Meyers

5024: Observed Choices For Food Safety in Retail, Survey and Auction Markets

Jason Shogren, John Fox, Dermot Hayes and Jutta Roosen

5023: Preference Learning in Consecutive Experimental Auctions

Jason Shogren, John List and Dermot Hayes

5022: Policy Issues for an Industrializing Animal Agriculture Sector: Discussion

Marvin L. Hayenga

5021: Spectral Analysis of Asymmetric Price Response in the U.S. Pork Market

Douglas Miller and Marvin L. Hayenga

5018: Protection and Trade Liberalization Under Incomplete Market Integration

John Beghin and Cheng Fang

5017: Performance of Sweet and Forage Sorghum Grown Continuously, Double Cropped with Winter Rye, or in Rotation with Soybean and Maize

D. R. Buxton, I. C. Anderson and Arne Hallam

5016: Model-Based Technique to Determine Variable-Rate Nitrogen for Corn

J. O. Paz, W. D. Batchelor, Bruce Babcock, T. S. Colvin, S. D. Logsdon, T. C. Kaspar and D. L. Karlen

5015: Teaching Farm Financial Management by Interactive Simulation

William M. Edwards

5014: Cost of Agricultural Production Risk (The)

Bruce Babcock and Jason Shogren

5013: Geography and Causes of Food Insecurity in Developing Countries (The)

L. Smith, Amani Elobeid and Helen Jensen

5011: Private R & D Investments in Agriculture: The Role of Incentives and Institutions

O. Alfranca and Wallace Huffman

5010: Dynamic Input Demand Functions and Resource Adjustment for U.S. Agriculture: State Evidence

P. Warjiyo and Wallace Huffman

5009: Structural Adjustment and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture, 1950-82

Wallace Huffman and Robert E. Evenson

5008: Dynamic Modeling of Agroforestry and Soil Fertility Interactions: Implications for Multi-Disciplinary Research Policy

Suresh Babu, Arne Hallam and B. Rajasekaran

5007: Implications for Agribusiness From Changes in the Hog Industry

John D. Lawrence and Daniel Otto

5006: Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Pork Industry: Current Status, Motivations, and Expectations

John D. Lawrence, V. James Rhodes and Marvin L. Hayenga

5005: Valuing Intangible Assets: Newark and Beyond

Mike Patterson and Marvin L. Hayenga

5004: Improving Wholesale Beef and Pork Product Cross Hedging

Marvin L. Hayenga, Bingrong Jiang and Sergio Lence

5003: Vertical Coordination in the U.S. Pork Industry: Status Motivations, and Expectations

John D. Lawrence, V. James Rhodes and Marvin L. Hayenga

5001: Economics of the Use of Imported U.S. High Oil Corn in Swine and Poultry Rations in Taiwan

Tun-hsiang Yu, C. Phillip Baumel, Marty J. McVey and Jerry L. Sell

5000: Structural Change in the Biotech Seed and Chemical Industrial Complex

Marvin L. Hayenga

4094: Do Tax Increment Finance Districts in Iowa Spur Regional Economic and Demographic Growth?

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

4091: Growth, Trade, and the Environment Nexus in Chile: A Comprehensive Assessment

John Beghin, Sebastien Dessus, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

4090: Trade and the Environment in General Equilibrium: Evidence from Developing Economies

John Beghin, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

4088: Trade and Environmental Policy Instruments and Reforms

John Beghin

4087: Modelling Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Their Valuation: An Application to Santiago, Chile

Brad J. Bowland and John Beghin

4086: Trade Liberalisation and the Environment in China

Sebastien Dessus, Amani Elobeid and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

4085: Outward Orientation, Growth, and the Environment in Vietnam

Amani Elobeid, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe and Sebastien Dessus

4084: Synthesis of Case Studies on Indonesia, Mexico, and Costa Rica

Amani Elobeid

4083: Conclusions

John Beghin, David Roland-Holst and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

4078: Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference

Michael Duffy

4077: Estimated Livestock Returns

John D. Lawrence

4072: Livestock Enterprise Budgets for Iowa--2002

John D. Lawrence and Gary May

4070: Estimated Cost of Crop Production in Iowa 2002

Michael Duffy and Darnell Smith

4064: Your Farm Income Statement

William M. Edwards

4063: Preferential Partner Selection in Evolutionary Labor Markets: A Study in Agent-Based Computational Economics

Leigh Tesfatsion

4060: Profiles: Government Farm Payments and Other Government Transfer Payments in the United States

Liesl Eathington and David A. Swenson

4059: Employment Growth in Iowa's Targeted Industries, 1992-97

Liesl Eathington and David A. Swenson

4053: Minimum Wage Effects on Hours, Employment and Number of Firms: The Iowa Case

Peter Orazem and J. Peter Mattila

4051: An Analysis of the Causes and Consequences of Foreign Born Growth in the Midwest and South-Central States, 1950-1990

Tzu-Ling Huang and Peter Orazem

4050: The Effect of Housing Prices, Wages, and Commuting Time on Joint Residential and Job Location Choices

Kim Sui So, Peter Orazem and Daniel Otto

4026: Specialty Markets Bring Different Risk Management Needs

Roger Ginder

4023: Iowa Pork Industry Economics

John D. Lawrence

4022: Iowa's Pork Industry--Dollars and Scents

John D. Lawrence

4021: Web Site for Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)

Leigh Tesfatsion

4020: Large Scale Closed Cooperative Swine Production Under Uncertainty

Roger Ginder

4011: Employment Growth in Iowa's Agricultural Commodity Processing Industries

Liesl Eathington, David A. Swenson and Daniel Otto

4010: Iowa Farmland Ownership & Tenure 1982-1997: A Fifteen-Year Perspective

Charles A. Pieper and Neil E. Harl

4009: Determining the Market for Your Goods and Services

Kenneth E. Stone and Georgeanne Artz

4008: Iowa Retail Market Share of Various Size Towns

Kenneth E. Stone and Georgeanne Artz

4007: Threshold Levels for Selected Retail and Service Businesses in Iowa, 1998-1999

Kenneth E. Stone and Georgeanne Artz

4006: Iowa County Earnings and Employment Growth Patterns

Peter Orazem and Daniel Otto

4005: Trends for Iowa Retail Businesses, 1976-1998

Kenneth E. Stone and Georgeanne Artz

4004: 1998 County Retail Surplus or Leakage

Kenneth E. Stone and Georgeanne Artz

4003: The Impact of Wal-Mart on Retail Market Structure in Maine

Georgeanne Artz

4002: Impacts of the Cattle Industry by State and by County

John D. Lawrence and Daniel Otto

4001: Impacts of the Pork Industry by State and by County

Daniel Otto and James Kliebenstein

4000: Who Will Retire Member's Equity?

Roger Ginder

3469: Intellectual property in plant breeding: comparing different levels and forms of protection

Sergio Lence, Dermot Hayes, Julian Alston and John Stephen C. Smith