Steel is used as a case study to decompose the links between primary and secondary markets, in order to examine how prices in the one market influence the prices in the other, and how volatility can be transmitted between them.

Replaced with revised version of paper 04/21/04.

Budgets were used to estimate additional identity-preserved wheat production costs that ranged from $0.81 to $5.35 per bushel. A survey was developed to estimate the feasibility for country elevators to market identity-preserved wheat and the premiums required to do so; estimated premiums...

In addition to the conventional auction method of cattle marketing, alternative marketing arrangements include sale by private treaty, video auction, retained ownership, and use of strategic alliances. This study examines use of alternative marketing arrangements and types of producers using...

Researchers have been preoccupied with finding ways to select among various functional forms of demand system. This study addresses this concern by proposing a formulation which obviates the need to choose among various functional forms. The approach is tested using four functional forms of the...

GIS is an emerging marketing tool. This study examines the Georgian landscape plant retail market using GIS in conjunction with other traditional market research tools. Spending and logistic regression propensity scores are analyzed for prevailing geographic patterns. This allows retailers to...

Examine the integration between U.S. and Mexican cantaloupe and watermelon prices using cointegration and error correction model approach. Cointegration analysis shows significant post-2002 improvement in market integration, particularly in the speed at which the market adjusts to departures...

Replaced with revised version of paper 02/13/07.

The sweet potato, though nutritious and healthful, has languished as measured by per capita consumption. Value-adding products have been developed, but have not been successful in expanding consumption and acceptance. Specialty pack exports to the United Kingdom, with expansion to continental...

This paper empirically assesses the sequential relationships among firm strategic factors, FDI activity, and economic performance for a sample of U.S.-based Multinational agribusinesses. The most important findings of this research is a positive direct effect of FDI on performance, the...