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12973: Modeling Macroeconomies As Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents

Blake Lebaron and Leigh Tesfatsion

12971: Ethanol Expansion in the Food Versus Fuel Debate: How Will Developing Countries Fare?

Amani Elobeid and Chad Hart

12970: Small Town Grocers in Iowa: What Does the Future Hold?

Meghan O'Brien

12969: How Well Does the Price of Unleaded Gasoline Predict the Price of Ethanol?

David A. Swenson

12968: Promotion with and Without Learning: Effects on Student Enrollment and Dropout Behavior

Elizabeth King, Peter Orazem and Elizabeth M. Paterno

12967: The Exact Lower Bound for the Coleman Index of the Power of a Collectivity for a Special Class of Simple Majority Games

Sonali Roy

12966: Is It a Jungle Out There?: Meat Packing, Immigrants and Rural Communities

Georgeanne Artz, Rebecca Jackson and Peter Orazem

12965: Extending the Use of the Block-Block Bootstrap to AR(∞) Processes

Helle Bunzel and Emma Iglesias

12964: Summary of 2000-2007 Population Changes in Iowa's Cities

Liesl Eathington and David A. Swenson

12959: Impacts of Ethanol on Planted Acreage in Market Equilibrium

Hongli Feng and Bruce Babcock

12954: Economic Impacts of the 2008 Floods in Iowa

Liesl Eathington, David A. Swenson and Meghan O'Brien

12953: High School Employment, School Performance, and College Entry

Chanyoung Lee and Peter Orazem

12952: If Johnny Can't Work, Can Johnny Read Better?: Child Labor Laws, Labor Supply and Schooling Outcomes

Chanyoung Lee and Peter Orazem

12951: Creating Philanthropy Initiatives to Enhance Community Vitality

Mark Edelman and Sandra Charvat Burke

12950: Wealth Transfer: A Philanthropic Opportunity for Community Development Practitioners

Mark Edelman and Sandra Charvat Burke

12949: Things to Know About Reasons for Moving in Nonmetro Iowa

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

12948: Community Factors and Moving in Nonmetro Iowa

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

12947: Lifestyle Factors and Moving in Nonmetro Iowa

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

12946: Family Factors and Moving in Nonmetro Iowa

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

12945: Work Factors and Moving in Nonmetro Iowa

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

12944: Reasons for Moving in Nonmetro Iowa

Sandra Charvat Burke and Mark Edelman

12942: Incentives and Outcomes in a Strategic Setting: The 3-Points-For-A-Win System in Soccer

GianCarlo Moschini

12941: Retail Trade Analysis for Iowa's Counties and Communities

Meghan O'Brien

12939: Deviant Generations, Ricardian Equivalence, and Growth Cycles

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Helle Bunzel

12938: An Insurance Approach to Risk Management in the Ethanol Industry

Nicholas Paulson, Bruce Babcock, Chad Hart and Dermot Hayes

12937: Using a Farmer's Beta for Improved Estimation of Expected Yields

Miguel Carriquiry, Bruce Babcock and Chad Hart

12936: Distributional Implications of U.S. Ethanol Policy

Bruce Babcock

12935: Bottlenecks, Drought, and Oil Price Spikes: Impact on U.S. Ethanol and Agricultural Sectors

Simla Tokgoz, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Dermot Hayes, Bruce Babcock, Tun-hsiang Yu, Fengxia Dong and Chad Hart

12934: Estimating Demand Systems when Outcomes Are Correlated Count

Joseph Herriges, Daniel Phaneuf and Justin Tobias

12933: Lifetime Health Consequences of Child Labor in Brazil

Chanyoung Lee and Peter Orazem

12932: Economic Impacts of Fall Commercial Nutrient Regulation

Daniel Otto

12931: Strategic Environmental Policy Under Free Trade with Transboundary Pollution

Shiva Sikdar and Harvey Lapan

12930: Competition and Regulation Via Supply and Demand Functions in Oligopolistic-Oligopsonistic Markets

Harun Bulut and Semih Koray

12928: Meat Slaughter and Processing Plants' Traceability Levels: Evidence from Iowa

Harun Bulut and John D. Lawrence

12927: Greening of Agriculture: Is It All a Greenwash of the Globalized Economy?

C. Francis, R. Elmore, J. Ikerd and Michael Duffy

12925: A Toolbox for the Study of Linear Difference Rational Expectations Models

P. Marcelo Oviedo

12923: Estimating the Production and Market Value-Based Impacts of Nutritional Goals in Ne Iowa

David A. Swenson

12922: Firing Cost and Firm Size: A Study of Sri Lanka's Severance Pay System

Babatunde Abidoye, Peter Orazem and Milan Vodopivec

12921: Firm Size, Technical Change And Wages In The Pork Sector, 1990 -2005

Li Yu, Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein and Peter Orazem

12920: Rural Immigrant Population Growth, 1950-2000: Waves or Ripples?

Andrew Dust, Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth

12919: Do Futures Benefit Farmers?

Sergio Lence

12918: Iowa Land Value Survey, 2008

Michael Duffy and Darnell Smith

12917: Estimated Costs for Production, Storage, and Transportation of Switchgrass

Michael Duffy

12916: Effect of Feed Cost on the Economic Impact of PRRS

C. Johnson, James Kliebenstein, Jeffrey Zimmerman and Shane C. Ellis

12914: Economic Impacts from Increasing Pig Farrowing in Iowa

E. Guffy, Daniel Otto, James Kliebenstein and Michael Duffy

12913: Marketing Specialty Hogs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Firms from Iowa

Brent Hueth, Maro Ibarburu and James Kliebenstein

12912: Re-Assessment of the Economic Impact of Prrs on Swine Production in the Usa in the Context of Rising Feed Costs

C. Johnson, James Kliebenstein and Jeffrey Zimmerman

12911: The Economic Impact of the Iowa Caucus: Gauging the Worth of Its First-In-The-Nation Position?

David A. Swenson

12910: Evaluating the Industrial and Occupational Foundations of the Iowa Lakes Region

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

12909: Are the Joneses Making You Financially Vulnerable?

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Helle Bunzel

12908: FAPRI 2008 U.S. And World Agricultural Outlook

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

12907: Alternative Marketing Arrangements in the Beef Industry: Definition, Use, and Motives

Justin Taylor, Sheryl C Cates, Shawn A Karns, John D. Lawrence, Stephen R. Koontz and Mary K. Muth

12906: Downstream Meat Marketing Practices: Lessons Learned from the Livestock and Meat Marketing Study

John D. Lawrence, Mary K. Muth, Justin Taylor and Stephen R. Koontz

12905: Emerging Ethanol Industry: Implications of Animal Manure Management

John D. Lawrence

12904: Differences in Prices and Price Risk Across Alternative Marketing Arrangements Used in the Fed Cattle Industry

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

12903: Infrastructure Aid, Deindustrialization and Urban Unemployment

E. Kwan Choi and Jai-Young Choi

12902: An Axiomatization of the Multigroup Atkinson Segregation Indices

David Frankel and Oscar Volij

12900: Sanitation and Hygiene Deficiences As Contributing Factors in Contamination of Imported Foods

Fengxia Dong and Helen Jensen

12899: Approaches to Economic Measures of Interventions

Julie Caswell and Helen Jensen

12898: Challenges for China's Agricultural Exports: Compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Fengxia Dong and Helen Jensen

12897: Mexico's Changing Pork Sector: Balancing Domestic and International Market Demand

S. Patricia Batres-Marquez, Roxanne L. Clemens and Helen Jensen

12896: Does the Food Stamp Program Affect Food Security Status and the Composition of Food Expenditures?

Suwen Pan and Helen Jensen

12895: Economics Incentive to Innovate in Plants: Patents and Plant Breeders' Rights, The

GianCarlo Moschini and Oleg Yerokhin

12893: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Nursing License Renewal Decisions in Iowa

Gina Russell, Shiva Sikdar, Mark D. Imerman and Peter Orazem

12892: A Market and Policy Interpretation of Recent Developments in the World Ethanol Industry

Paul W. Gallagher

12891: Economic Impacts of Individual Fishing Quota Management in the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery

Carl Lian, Rajesh Singh and Quinn Weninger

12890: Individual Fishing Quotas in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Grouper Fishery: Fleet Restructuring, Effort Reduction and Cost Savings

Quinn Weninger

12889: Agriculture and Water Quality in the Cornbelt: Overview of Issues and Approaches

Catherine Kling

12888: Privatizing Ecosystem Services: Water Quality Effects from a Carbon Market

Catherine Kling

12887: A Tale of Three Watersheds: Non-Point Source Pollution and Conservation Practices Across Iowa

Catherine Kling

12886: Undersatnding American Agriculture: Challenges for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey

Catherine Kling and Bruce Gardner

12885: Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Catherine Kling and Virginia Dale

12882: Interactive Blocking in Arrow-Debreu Economies

Siyang Xiong and Charles Zheng

12881: Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

Timothy Searchinger, Ralph Heimlich, R. A. Houghton, Fengxia Dong, Amani Elobeid, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Simla Tokgoz, Dermot Hayes and Tun-hsiang Yu

12880: Iowa's Turkey Industry: An Economic Review

John D. Lawrence and Laura Bortz

12879: Economic Importance of the Iowa Egg Industry

John D. Lawrence, Shane C. Ellis and Daniel Otto

12877: 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

12876: Iowa Retail & Service Business Threshold Analysis: A Comparative Look at Iowa's Counties

Meghan O'Brien

12875: Iowa Retail & Service Business Threshold Analysis: A Comparative Look at 2000-2005

Meghan O'Brien

12872: Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets

John Beghin and Helen Jensen

12871: Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Ethanol from Iowa Corn: Life Cycle Analysis Versus System-Wide Accounting

Hongli Feng, Ofir Rubin and Bruce Babcock

12869: The Economic Value of Iowa's Natural Resources

Daniel Otto, Daniel C. Monchuck, Kanlaya Jintanakul Barr and Catherine Kling

12868: When Should Uncertain Nonpoint Emissions Be Penalized in a Trading Program?

David Hennessy and Hongli Feng

12865: The Economic Impact of Ethanol Production in Iowa

David A. Swenson

12864: Estimating the Future Economic Impact of Corn Ethanol Production in the U.S

David A. Swenson

12863: Optimal Monetary Policy Rules Under Persistent Shocks

Joydeep Bhattacharya and Rajesh Singh

12862: Choosing to Keep Up with the Joneses and Income Inequality

Richard Barnett, Joydeep Bhattacharya and Helle Bunzel

12861: Optimal Banking Sector Recapitalization

P. Marcelo Oviedo and Shiva Sikdar

12858: Geographical Indications and the Competitive Provision of Quality in Agricultural Markets

GianCarlo Moschini, Luisa Menapace and Daniel Pick

12857: Technical Appendix to 'Temporary Stabilizations, Sudden Stops, and Asset Prices'

Rajesh Singh and Chetan Subramanian

12855: The Economic Impacts of Iowa State University in Fiscal 2006

David A. Swenson and Liesl Eathington

12853: The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes

Peter Orazem, Paul Glewwe and Harry Patrinos

12852: The Tariff Equivalent and Forgone Trade Effects of Prohibitive Technical Barriers to Trade

Chengyan Yue and John Beghin

12851: Decoupled Farm Payments and the Role of Base Acreage and Yield Updating Under Uncertainty

Arathi Bhaskar and John Beghin

12848: Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs

Jeremy Greenwood, Juan Sanchez and Cheng Wang

12846: Temporary Stabilizations, Sudden Stops and Asset Prices

Rajesh Singh and Chetan Subramanian

12844: Asset Prices and Twin Crises

Rajesh Singh

12843: The Role of Mathematical and Verbal Skills on the Returns to Graduate and Professional Education

Moohoun Song, Peter Orazem and Darin Wohlgemuth

12841: How Coupled Are Decoupled Farm Payments? A Review of the Evidence

Arathi Bhaskar and John Beghin

12839: Bio-Economies of Scope and the Discard Problem in Mulitple Species Fisheries

Rajesh Singh and Quinn Weninger