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Three essays examining the effects of information on consumer response to contemporary agricultural production
(2014-05)
Future agricultural innovation and increases in the food supply may be limited by consumer aversion to food technology and factors associated with the concentration of production. The ability of agricultural innovators and ...
Agent-based artificial markets
(2008-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study is composed of three essays. The first essay adapts the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) to find the equilibrium in an agent-based artificial market. The simulated agents ...
Food demand in urban China
(2008-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study is composed of three essays. The objective of the first essay is to estimate the impacts of economic and non-economic factors on food consumption patterns in urban China. A complete ...
Calendar spread options for storable commodities
(2013-12)
Previous studies provide pricing models of options on futures spreads. However, none fully reflect the economic reality that spreads can stay near full carry for long periods of time. A new option pricing model is derived ...
Food and nutrient demand in Indonesia
(2012-12)
This study estimated and analyzed the impact of economic (price and expenditure) and demographic variables on food and nutrient demand in Indonesia using the data set collected from the national social and economic survey ...