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13108: Firm Entry, Firm Exit, And Urban-Biased Growth

Li Yu, Robert W. Jolly and Peter Orazem

13107: The Rise of Obesity in Transition: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Russia

Sonya Huffman and Marian Rizov

13106: On Price Uncertainty, Nominal Assets and Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risks

Sunanda Roy

13105: Self Insurance and Public Employment Programs

Sunanda Roy

13104: Inflation, Self-Insurance and the Friedman Rule in Economies with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risks

Sunanda Roy

13103: On the (Non)-Lattice Structure of Equilibrium Sets in Games with Strategic Substitutes

Sunanda Roy and Tarun Sabarwal

13102: Hybrid Corn Technology in Asia

Kevin Kimle

13101: Is Electronic Business Part of Your 'Cheap Revolution?'

Kevin Kimle

13100: Health Insurance Coverage Estimates for Iowa

Liesl Eathington

13096: Why Does Overnight Liquidity Cost More Than Intraday Liquidity?

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Joseph Haslag and Antoine Martin

13095: Migration and Rural Entrepreneurship

Li Yu and Georgeanne Artz

13094: How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm: Which Land Grant Graduates Live in Rural Areas?

Georgeanne Artz and Li Yu

13092: ISO Net Surplus Collection and Allocation in Wholesale Power Markets Under Locational Marginal Pricing

Hongyan Li and Leigh Tesfatsion

13091: Economic Losses from the 2008 Iowa Floods

Daniel Otto

13089: Factors Affecting Hospital Choice for Rural Iowa Residents

Kanlaya Jintanakul Barr and Daniel Otto

13088: Economic Impacts of Community-Amenity and Tourism-Related Investments in the Coon Rapids-Whiterock Area West-Central Iowa

Daniel Otto

13087: Overview of Iowa Agritourism: Results from the 2008 Enterprise Survey

Daniel Otto

13086: Stopping Start-Ups: How The Business Cycle Affects Entrepreneurship

Li Yu, Peter Orazem and Robert W. Jolly

13085: Why Do Rural Firms Live Longer?

Li Yu, Peter Orazem and Robert W. Jolly

13083: Does Local School Control Raise Student Outcomes?: Evidence on the Roles of School Autonomy and Parental Participation

Victoria Gunnarsson, Peter Orazem, Mario A. Sanchez and Aimee Verdisco

13082: Tips for Running a Business During Tough Times

Meghan O'Brien

13080: Patience Cycles

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Mikko Puhakka

13079: A Recent Trend in Ecological Economic Research: Quantifying the Benefits and Costs of Improving Ecosystem Services

Hongli Feng, Manoj Jha, Philip Gassman and Josh Parcel

13078: The Provision of Public Goods from Agriculture: Observations from

Sergey S. Rabotyagov and Hongli Feng

13077: Willingness to Pay for Surplus Sugar in the United States

Hongli Feng and Chad Hart

13076: Biofuels Policies and Welfare: Is the Stick of Mandates Better Than the Carrot of Subsidies?

Harvey Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini

13075: Separation and Volatility of Locational Marginal Prices in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets

Hongyan Li, Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion

13074: Auction Basics for Wholesale Power Markets: Objectives and Pricing Rules

Leigh Tesfatsion

13073: The AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed: A Computational Laboratory for Research, Teaching, and Training

Hongyan Li and Leigh Tesfatsion

13072: Locational Marginal Pricing Basics for Restructured Wholesale Power Markets

Haifeng Liu, Leigh Tesfatsion and A.A. Chowdhury

13071: Scenario Generation for Price Forecasting in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets

Qun Zhou, Leigh Tesfatsion and Chen-Ching Liu

13070: Capacity Withholding in Restructured Wholesale Power Markets: An Agent-Based Test Bed Study

Hongyan Li and Leigh Tesfatsion

13069: Development of Open Source Software for Power Market Research: The AMES Test Bed

Hongyan Li and Leigh Tesfatsion

13068: Derivation of Locational Marginal Prices for Restructured Wholesale Power Markets

Haifeng Liu, Leigh Tesfatsion and A.A. Chowdhury

13067: Retail Trade Analysis for Iowa's Counties and Communities

Meghan O'Brien

13065: A Return of the Threshing Ring? Motivations, Benefits and Challenges of Machinery and Labor Sharing Arrangements

Georgeanne Artz, Gregory Colson and Roger Ginder

13064: Reflections on the Journal of Cooperatives 1986-2003

Phil Kenkel, Roger Ginder and Taeyoon Kim

13062: FAPRI 2009 U.S. And World Agricultural Outlook

Miguel Carriquiry, Fengxia Dong, Xiaodong Du, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Chad Hart, Dermot Hayes, Karen P. Kovarik, Simla Tokgoz, Eric J. Wailes, Edward Chavez, Julian Binfield, D. Scott Brown, Scott Gerlt, Daniel Madison, Seth D. Meyer, William H. Meyers, Wyatt Thompson, Patrick Westhoff, Lori Wilcox and Abner W. Womack

13060: Technology and Innovation in World Agriculture: Prospects for 2010-2019

Wallace Huffman

13056: The Default-Prone U.S. Toxic Asset Auction Plan

Charles Zheng

13054: Land Allocation Effects of the Global Ethanol Surge: Predictions from the International FAPRI Model

Jacinto F. Fabiosa, John Beghin, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Simla Tokgoz and Tun-hsiang Yu

13053: The Federal Stimulus Plan and Sustaining Jobs in the Iowa Economy

David A. Swenson

13051: A Coase Theorem Based on a New Concept of the Core

Charles Zheng

13050: Misunderstanding Economic Stimulus Multipliers

David A. Swenson

13049: Understanding the Cost Difference Between Intraday and Overnight Liquidity

Joydeep Bhattacharya, Joseph Haslag and Antoine Martin

13048: Quality Certification Standards in Competitive Markets: When Consumers and Producers (Dis)Agree

Harvey Lapan and GianCarlo Moschini

13047: New Mover Studies: Wayne County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13046: New Mover Studies: Union County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13045: New Mover Studies: Sioux County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13044: New Mover Studies: Ringgold County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13043: New Mover Studies: Page County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13042: New Mover Studies: Howard County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13041: New Mover Studies: Floyd County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13040: New Mover Studies: Dickinson County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13039: New Mover Studies: Decatur County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13038: New Mover Studies: Davis County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13037: New Mover Studies: Appanoose County

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13036: Urban and Counterurban Migration: City and Countryside Push and Pull, the Internet, and Spouses

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

13034: What Are the Consequences of Consequentiality?

Joseph Herriges, Catherine Kling, Chih-Chen Liu and Justin Tobias

13031: After They Graduate: An Overview of the Iowa State University Alumni Survey

Robert W. Jolly, Li Yu and Peter Orazem

13029: Ag Bankers -- Today and Tomorrow

Robert W. Jolly and Michael Gaul

13028: Joint Estimation of Risk Preferences and Technology: Flexible Utility or Futility?

Sergio Lence

13027: Vertical Integration of Successive Monopolists: A Classroom Experiment

Tanya Rosenblat

13026: Trust and Social Collateral

Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat and Adam Szeidl

13025: Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks

Tanya Rosenblat and Markus Mobius

13023: Feed Grains and Livestock: Impacts on Meat Supplies and Prices

John D. Lawrence, James Mintert, John Anderson and David Anderson

13022: Creating a Geographically Linked Collective Brand for High-Quality Beef: A Case Study

Bruce Babcock, Dermot Hayes, John D. Lawrence and Roxanne L. Clemens

13021: Evidence of the Role of Marketing Arrangements and Valuation Methods in Improving Beef Quality

Mary K. Muth, Yanyan Liu, Stephen Koontz and John D. Lawrence

13020: On the Efficiency of 'Single Window'

Krishna B. Athreya and Monisankar Bishnu

13019: WTO Disciplines on Domestic Support and Market Access in Agri-Food Supply Chains

Jean-Philippe Gervais, Bruno Larue and Harvey Lapan

13018: Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs

Sampath J.D.Y. Jayasinghe, John Beghin and GianCarlo Moschini

13017: Survey of Iowa Leasing Practices, 2007

Michael Duffy, Darnell Smith and William M. Edwards

13016: How Bioenergy Could Change Land Ownership and Values

Michael Duffy

13015: Status of Farms and Ranches in the Middle

Michael Duffy

13013: Farmland Ownership and Tenure in Iowa, 2007

Michael Duffy and Darnell Smith

13012: A Note on the Carreras-Coleman Decisiveness Index

Rana Barua, Satya Chakravarty and Sonali Roy

13011: Common Property and Public Goods: Discussion

Catherine Kling

13010: Welfare Measures When Agents Can Learn: A Unifying Theory

Jinhua Zhao and Catherine Kling

13009: Using Distillers Grains in the U.S. And International Livestock and Poultry Industries

Bruce Babcock, Dermot Hayes and John D. Lawrence

13008: Bounding the Effects of Food Insecurity on Children's Health Outcomes

Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider

13007: Firm Entry and Exit in Iowa, 1992 - 2004

Li Yu, Robert W. Jolly and Peter Orazem

13001: The Beauty Premium: Physical Attractiveness and Gender in Dictator Games

Tanya Rosenblat

13000: Rising Food and Energy Prices: Projections for Labor Markets 2008-18 and Beyond

Wallace Huffman

12996: Non-Price Equilibria for Non-Marketed Goods

Daniel Phaneuf, Jared Carbone and Joseph Herriges

12995: Retail Economics 101: Lessons and Strategies of a Recession

Meghan O'Brien

12992: O-Ring Production on U.S. Hog Farms: Joint Choices of Farm Size, Technology, and Compensation

Li Yu and Peter Orazem

12991: Minorities in Business: A Selected Overview of U.S. And Iowa Surveys of Business Owners

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

12990: Characteristics of Home Mortgage Lending to Racial or Ethnic Groups in Iowa

Liesl Eathington and David A. Swenson

12989: Selected Characteristics of Black and Hispanic Iowans: Analysis of Public-Use Micro-Sample Data from the 2006 American Community Survey

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

12988: Neighborhood Diversity Characteristics in Iowa and Their Implications for Home Loans and Business Investment

Liesl Eathington and David A. Swenson

12987: Iowa's Minority Participants in the Economy: Analysis of Public-Use Micro-Sample Data from the 2006 American Community Survey

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

12985: On Myopia As Rationale for Social Security

Torben M. Anderson and Joydeep Bhattacharya

12984: Iowa's Native-Born and Foreign-Born Participants in the Economy: Analysis of Public-Use Micro-Sample Data from the 2006 American Community Survey

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

12983: A test for complementarities among multiple technologies that avoids the curse of dimensionality

Li Yu, Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

12982: Biotechnology and the Development of Food Markets: Retrospect and Prospects

GianCarlo Moschini

12980: A Profile of Iowa'S Population by Age, Race, and Ethnicity in 2007

Liesl Eathington

12977: An Agent-Based Test Bed Study of Wholesale Power Market Performance Measures

Abhishek Somani and Leigh Tesfatsion

12976: Modeling of Suppliers Learning Behaviors in an Electricity Market Environment

Nanpeng Yu, Chen-Ching Liu and Leigh Tesfatsion

12975: Dynamic LMP Response Under Alternative Price-Cap and Price-Sensitive Demand Scenarios

Hongyan Li, Junjie Sun and Leigh Tesfatsion

12974: Agent-Based Computational Economics: Modeling Economies As Complex Adaptive Systems

Leigh Tesfatsion