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Tradeoffs between resistance to antimicrobials in public health and their use in agriculture : moving towards sustainability assessment
Lhermie, Guillaume; Wernli, Didier; Jørgensen, Peter … - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 166 (2019), pp. 1-11
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Northern Great Plains Beef Production: Production and Marketing Practices of Cow-Calf Producers
Hodur, Nancy M.; Leistritz, F. Larry; Nudell, Daniel J.; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2007
's ruminant livestock sector appears to be backgrounding feeder calves. However, while economic analysis has indicated that … stockgrowers in the study area could typically increase their net returns by backgrounding feeder calves, anecdotal evidence … suggests relatively few producers are presently backgrounding feeder calves. To identify the socioeconomic impediments …
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ANALYSIS OF THE RISK MANAGEMENT PROPERTIES OF GRAZING CONTRACTS VERSUS FUTURES AND OPTION CONTRACTS
Harrison, R. Wes; Bobst, Barry W.; Benson, Fred J.; … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 28 (1996) 02
of grazing contracts to futures and option contracts. The results show that the risks of backgrounding feeder cattle are …
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTION ON COW-CALF FARMS
Popp, Michael P.; Faminow, Merle D.; Parsch, Lucas D. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 31 (1999) 01
Factors that affect the decision to feed or sell calves at weaning are analyzed for Arkansas cow-calf operators. A discrete choice logit model is used to analyze the adoption of value-added cattle production. Farm size, human capital, perception of risk/returns and enterprise diversification are...
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Opportunities and Constraints to Expanding Value-added Beef Production in the Northern Great Plains
Hodur, Nancy M.; Leistritz, F. Larry; Nudell, Daniel J.; … - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North … - 2007
information about operators' current production practices, including marketing, backgrounding, retained ownership, herd management …
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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...
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Acceptable Risk in a Portfolio Analysis
Steinbacher, Matjaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A social network has been used to simulate how agents of different levels of risk aversion under different circumstances behave in financial markets when deciding between risk-free and a risky asset. This is done by a discrete time version evolutionary game of risk-loving and risk-averse agents....
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Another tale of two tails: On characterizations of comparative risk
Mueller, Alfred - Risk and Insurance Archive - 1996
We characterize the classes of utility functions that are consistent with different notions of mean preserving spreads introduced in the literature. This gives rise to a unified approach and extension of some definitions of increasing risk, including the concepts of Rothschild and Stiglitz...
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Comparing Risks with Unbounded Distributions
Mueller, Alfred - Risk and Insurance Archive - 1996
We extend the characterizations of increasing risks developed by Rothschild and Stiglitz (1970) to the case of unbounded probability distributions. We also consider the related notion of increasing risk about $\nu$ introduced by Landsberger and Meilijson (1990). Moreover, for some of the results...
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Stochastic Dominance in Wheat Variety Development and Release Strategies
Dahl, Bruce L.; Wilson, William W.; Nganje, William E. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 29 (2004) 01
Variety development and release decisions involve tradeoffs between yields and characteristics valued by end-users, as well as uncertainties about agronomic, quality, and economic variables. In this study, methods are developed to determine the value of varieties to growers and end-users...
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