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1481: Interface Between Growth, Trade, Pollution and Natural Resource Use in Chile: Evidence from an Economywide Model, The

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

1480: Performance of Nested Logit Models when Welfare Estimation Is the Goal (The)

Joseph Herriges and Catherine Kling

1479: Bankable Permits for the Control of Environmental Pollution

Catherine Kling and Jonathan Rubin

1478: Trade and Environment Linkages: Piecemeal Reform and Optimal Intervention

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

1475: The Structure of Wages and Benefits in the U.S. Pork Industry

Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

1474: Hoop Structures for Gestating Swine

Michael C. Brumm, Jay D. Harmon, Mark Honeyman, James Kliebenstein and Joseph M. Zulovich

1473: One-Litter Outdoor Farrowing System by Using Artificial Insemination and Hoop Structures

Benjamin Larson, Mark Honeyman and James Kliebenstein

1472: Performance and Budget Analysis of Finishing Pigs in Hoop Structures and Confinement During the Winter: First Group Results

Mark Honeyman, Clarence L. Brewer, James Kliebenstein, D. Miller, A. D. Penner, M. E. Larson and C. S. Jorgensen

1469: The Economics of Finishing Pigs in Hoop Structures and Confinement During the Summer: Second Group Results

Clarence L. Brewer, James Kliebenstein and Douglas Miller

1454: Determining the Benefits of Environmental Improvements in Pork Production and Their Sustainability: A Community-Based Study of Iowa's Pork Industry

James Kliebenstein and Sean P. Hurley

1441: The Political Economy of Nato: Past, Present, and into the 21st Century

Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley

1409: Fitting Autoregressive Trend Stationary Models with Finite Samples

Barry L. Falk

1407: The Failure of Multi-Year Hedge-To-Arrive Contracts

Sergio Lence, Marvin L. Hayenga and Neil E. Harl

1395: The Economics of Finishing Pigs in Hoop Structures and Confinement During the Winter: First Group Results

Clarence L. Brewer, Douglas Miller and James Kliebenstein

1394: Determining the Benefits of Environmental Improvements in Pork Production and Their Sustainability

James Kliebenstein and Sean P. Hurley

1391: Consumer Willingness-To-Pay for Meat Products with Differing Environmental Attributes

Sean P. Hurley and James Kliebenstein

1390: Toxoplasma Gondii in Swine Operations in the United States: Seroprevalence in Sows and Market-Weight Pigs in the National Animal Health Monitoring System, 1995 and an Assessment of Management Factors

S. Patton, Vina Diderrich, Charles Faulkner, Raymond McCord, James Kliebenstein and T. Wang

1389: Setting Efficient Incentives for Agricultural Research: Lessons from Principal-Agent Theory

Wallace Huffman and Richard Just

1388: Unit Root Tests and Asymmetric Adjustment with an Example Using the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Walter Enders and Clive Granger

1387: Convergence in U.S. Tfp Growth for Agriculture: Implications of Interstate Research Spillovers for Funding Agricultural Research

Alan McCunn and Wallace Huffman

1386: The Organization of Agricultural Research in Western Developed Countries

Wallace Huffman and Richard Just

1381: Modernizing Agriculture: A Continuing Process

Wallace Huffman

1380: An Examination of Profit Inefficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana

Awudu Abdulai and Wallace Huffman

1379: Ex Ante Capacity Effects in an Evolutionary Labor Market with Adaptive Search

Leigh Tesfatsion

1377: Valuing Water Quality Improvements Using Revealed Preference Methods When Corner Solutions Are Present

Daniel Phaneuf, Catherine Kling and Joseph Herriges

1376: The Iowa Economic/Fiscal Impact Modeling System

David A. Swenson, Daniel Otto and Seth D. Meyer

1375: Agriculture

Robert N. Wisner

1374: Farm Management

Ronald D. Kay and William M. Edwards

1373: Farm Management: Instructor's Manual

Ronald D. Kay and William M. Edwards

1372: Financial Considerations in Managing Risks and Profits

William M. Edwards

1371: Crop Insurance Alternatives

William M. Edwards and Barnaby Jr, G.A. (Art)

1370: Managing Risks and Profits, Grains, Coping with Volatile World Markets

Robert N. Wisner, E. Dean Baldwin and E. N. Blue

1369: Producers' Marketing Practices and Decision Making Processes

James Sartwelle , Daniel O'Brien, William Tierney, Timothy R. Eggers, Robert N. Wisner, John D. Lawrence and Walter Barker

1368: Freedom to Farm Brings Flexibility to Meet Changing World Demand, But Greatly Increases Risk

Robert N. Wisner

1367: Pre-Harvest Marketing Strategies Increase Net Returns for Corn and Soybean Growers

Robert N. Wisner, E. N. Blue and E. Dean Baldwin

1365: Coordinated Approaches to Trade and Environment Policy in the Pacific Basin: Initial Results for Mexico

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

1364: Status of the Environment and the Market Reforms in Eastern Europe

Tomislav Vukina, John Beghin and E. Solakoglu

1362: Information, Flexibility, and Value Added

David Hennessy and Bruce Babcock

1355: Estimation and Welfare Calculations in a Generalized Corner Solution Model with an Application to Recreation Demand

Daniel Phaneuf, Catherine Kling and Joseph Herriges

1354: Group Risk Plan (Grp) and Group Risk Income Protection (Grip)

William M. Edwards

1353: Repairs and Renovations: Past and Future

Neil E. Harl

1350: Transfer Assessments and Efficiency in Quota-Regulated Markets

David Hennessy and Jutta Roosen

1348: Industry Equilibrium Under Price Distribution and Cost Shifts

David Hennessy

1347: Experimental Analysis of Willingness to Pay for Pesticide-Free and Cosmetically Impaired Apples (An)

Jutta Roosen, David Hennessy, John Fox and A. Alan Schreiber

1345: Survey of Iowa Leasing Practices

William M. Edwards, Michael Duffy and Darnell Smith

1343: Legal Considerations in Grain Contracting

Leisa Boley and Neil E. Harl

1342: Important Crop Insurance Dates

William M. Edwards

1341: Contract Agriculture: Will It Tip the Balance?

Neil E. Harl

1339: The Pork Industry: Environmental Regulations and Competitiveness

Darin Wohlgemuth, Gail Thuner, John Beghin, Mark Metcalfe and John Miranowski

1335: Strategic Foreign Direct Investment and Exchange Rate Uncertainty

Hongmo Sung and Harvey Lapan

1334: Suggested Closing Inventory Prices

William M. Edwards and Chad Hart

1333: Farm Costs and Returns

William M. Edwards

1332: Farm Family Living Expenditures--(Rev.)

William M. Edwards and Alan L. Vontalge

1329: Financing Agriculture and Rural America: Issues of Policy, Structure, and Technical Change

Sergio Lence

1328: Futures Spread Risk in Soybean Multi-Year Hedge-To-Arrive Contracts

E. N. Blue, Marvin L. Hayenga, Sergio Lence and E. Dean Baldwin

1327: The Maximum Entropy Approach to Estimation and Inference: An Overview

Amos Golan, George Judge and D. Miller

1325: Empirical Tests of Efficiency Wage Models

Tzu-Ling Huang, Arne Hallam, Peter Orazem and Elizabeth M. Paterno

1323: Building Sales with Better Signage

Kenneth E. Stone

1322: Impact of the Wal-Mart Phenomenon on Rural Communities

Kenneth E. Stone

1321: Get a Bigger Bang for Your Advertising Dollar

Kenneth E. Stone

1320: Midwestern Retail Garden Centers Identify Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction with Supplying Wholesale Nurseries

Kenneth E. Stone, J. K. Iles, W. R. Graves, A. S. Aiello and C. L. Haynes

1319: Information Recovery in Simultaneous Equation Statistical Models

D. Miller, Amos Golan and George Judge

1318: Reconciling Chinese Meat Production and Consumption Data

Frank H. Fuller, Dermot Hayes and Darnell Smith

1317: Intercropping Sorghum into Alfalfa and Reed Canarygrass to Increase Forage Yield

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

1316: Graduate Education in Economics After the Cogee Report

Arne Hallam

1315: Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Handbook: A Report of the Aaea Task Force on Commodity Costs and Returns

Arne Hallam, Vernon Eidman, M. Morehart and K. Klonsky

1314: Estimating Disequilibrium Cost Elasticities in Agricultural Production: Comment

Jean-Philippe Gervais and GianCarlo Moschini

1312: Corn Yield Futures and Options

Sergio Lence

1311: Cvm-X: Calibrating Contingent Values with Experimental Auction Markets

John Fox, Jason Shogren, Dermot Hayes and James Kliebenstein

1310: International Vertical Markets in Processed Foods

Frances A. Antonovitz, Brian Buhr and Donald Liu

1309: Nonparametric Bounds on Welfare Measures: A New Tool for Nonmarket Valuation

Catherine Kling

1308: Working Women and Expenditures on Food Away-From-Home and At-Home in Spain

Justo Manrique and Helen Jensen

1307: Employee Relations Outlook for the Pork Industry

James Kliebenstein

1306: Fads Versus Fundamentals in Farmland Prices

Barry L. Falk and Bong-Soo Lee

1305: Recovering Output-Specific Inputs from Aggregate Input Data: A Generalized Cross Entropy Approach

Sergio Lence and Douglas Miller

1302: The Effect of Conglomerate Mergers on Changes in Industry Concentration

Jean W. Adams and Keith Heimforth

1301: Empirical Isoquants and Observable Optima: Cobb and Douglas at Seventy

Peter Orazem

1300: Employment and Wage Dynamics in the Estonia Transition, 1989-1995

Rivo Noorkoiv, Peter Orazem, Allan Puur and Milan Vodopivec

1297: Estimating Atrazine Leaching in the Midwest

Michael R. Burkart, Philip Gassman, Thomas B. Moorman and Piyush Singh

1292: Medium-Term FAPRI Outlook for World Agricultural Prices: Comparisons and Implications

William H. Meyers, Darnell Smith and Sudhir Chaudhary

1291: Motivations for Exiting Hog Production in the 1990s and Incentives for Re-Entry

John D. Lawrence and Erda Wang

1289: Factal Ambiguity and a Theory of Evidence Reconsidered: A Dialogue Between a Statistician and a Law Professor

R. J. Allen and Alicia L. Carriquiry

1288: Rasch Models

S. E. Fienberg and Alicia L. Carriquiry

1287: Welfare Reducing Trade and Optimal Trade Policy

Eun Choi and Hamid Beladi

1286: Loglinear Models

Alicia L. Carriquiry and S. E. Fienberg

1285: Sampling Schemes for Policy Analyses Using Computer Simulation Experiments

Alicia L. Carriquiry, F. J. Breidt and P. G. Lakshminarayan

1284: Usual Intake Distributions in Risk Assessment for Food Residues

Sarah Nusser, Alicia L. Carriquiry and Helen Jensen

1283: Bayesian Legal Decision-Making: Impossible Task?

Alicia L. Carriquiry

1282: Land Policy and Economic Development: Options and Prospects for Lithuania

William H. Meyers and Natalija Kazlauskiene

1275: Two-Litter Outdoor Farrowing System Budget

Benjamin Larson, Mark Honeyman and James Kliebenstein

1274: Crop Insurance and Pre-Harvest Pricing of Corn and Soybeans: Case Studies for Selected States and Farms

Robert N. Wisner, E. N. Blue and E. Dean Baldwin

1273: Insurance and Pricing Strategies for Grain Producers in Selected Regions

E. Dean Baldwin, E. N. Blue and Robert N. Wisner

1272: Impact of the Wal-Mart Phenomenon on Rural Communities

Kenneth E. Stone

1270: International Marketing Margins for Agricultural Products: The Case of Trade Uncertainty with Perishable Products or Administrative Trade Barriers

Paul W. Gallagher

1269: Employee Relations

Kenneth E. Stone

1268: Providing Superior Service

Kenneth E. Stone

1267: Economic Growth, Valuation Change and Infrastructure Requirements

David A. Swenson, Liesl Eathington and Daniel Otto

1266: Pork Production Contracts and Food Safety Issues

James Kliebenstein

1265: Pork Production Costs: A Comparison of Major Pork Exporting Countries

Clarence L. Brewer, Marvin L. Hayenga and James Kliebenstein

1264: Testimony

Neil E. Harl