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Agent-based common value auctions
(2011-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This research is composed of three essays about agent-based common value auctions. The objective of the first essay is to establish an agent-based first-price common-value auction to determine ...
Essays on liquidity costs in futures and options markets
(2011-07)
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Essays on the economic value of genetic testing in beef cattle production
(2015-12)
Recent advancements in genomic technology have made genetic marker panels for a variety of economically-relevant beef cattle traits commercially available. Although independent validations have found that many of these ...
Essays on demand for water-based recreation in Oklahoma
(2010-05)
Scope, Method of Study, and Findings: Even though the demand for lake recreation in Oklahoma has increased continuously since the 1950s, few recent studies have analyzed the demand for lake recreation as well as their ...
Switchgrass biomass to ethanol production economics: Field to fuel approach
(2010-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Switchgrass has been proposed as a dedicated energy crop. The first essay determines switchgrass yield response to nitrogen fertilizer for a single annual harvest in July and for a single annual ...
Chloride control and irrigation management: A GIS integrated approach to economic feasibility for cotton
(2012-12)
This study estimates the net agricultural benefits of preventing nearly 500 tons of salt per day, sufficient to preclude irrigation or potable water use, from entering the Elm Fork of the Red River near the Texas border ...
Essays on production and demand issues in the bovine industry
(2010-07)
Scope, Method of Study, and Findings: This three-essay dissertation seeks to address both production and demand issues in the bovine industry. The first essay assesses the economic effects of bovine respiratory disease ...
Optimal application of swine effluent in Texas and Oklahoma panhandles determined by Bayesian stochastic dynamic programming
(2011-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the most efficient time to apply swine effluent corn production in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle area. The effluent was assumed to be applied to a ...
Three essays: Reservoir management; switchgrass land leasing; and its environmental impact
(2012-12)
First essay determines the optimal lake levels for Lake Tenkiller that maximizes the total net economic benefits derived from both marketed and non-marketed uses under stochastic inflows. It was found that for Lake Tenkiller ...
Impacts of permanent and temporary shocks on optimal length of moving average to forecast a time series
(2013-05)
Moving averages are often used for forecasting and the optimal length of the moving average depends on the size and frequency of structural breaks. A new time series model is proposed to describe permanent shocks related ...