Browsing OSU Dissertations by Author "Adam, Brian"
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Calendar spread options for storable commodities
Seok, Juheon (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 ... -
Circumventing ovicidal deficiencies of fumigants during postharvest fumigations
Gautam, Sandipa G. (2013-12)Sulfuryl fluoride (SF) is an increasingly used methyl bromide alternative for postharvest disinfestation of United States-produced walnuts. However, eggs of several key walnut pests are not adequately controlled by this ... -
Essays on African rural development and environmental and natural resource policy
Kanza, Patrick Mambwene (2017-05)My dissertation consists of three essays in development economics and empirical microeconomics. -
Expected fees for managed futures, optimal feeder cattle price slides, and aggregate vs. disaggregate data in measuring school effectiveness
Richter, Francisca G-C. (2000-12) -
Fruit marketing in Saudi Arabia
Esa, Saad A. Kh. (1998-07) -
Impact of social cash transfers on young adults' labor force participation, schooling, and sexual behaviors in South Africa
Siaplay, Mounir (2012-07)Scope and Method of Study: My dissertation consists of two papers examining the impact of South Africa's social cash transfers namely Old Age Pension (OAP) program on labor force participation, schooling, and sexual behaviors ... -
Impact of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis on the Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil and palm kernel oil industries
Ardiansyah, Muhril (2002-05) -
Impacts of permanent and temporary shocks on optimal length of moving average to forecast a time series
Lee, Yoonsuk (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 ... -
Import demand for fresh tomatoes and onions in Saudi Arabia
Alnashwan, Othman Saad (2004-05)Scope and Method of Study: -
Intertemporal change in cost efficiency and its determinants using a base period approach: An evidence from Korean rice farms
Kim, Jeongseung (2022-07)The objective of our study is to propose a procedure for intertemporal comparison of technical and cost efficiencies across years. The procedure measures the efficiency change while excluding the frontier shift effect using ... -
Measuring bilateral market power between processors and retailers: An application to the U.S. beef industry
Park, Seong Jin (2013-12)The U.S. agricultural food processing and retailing industries have become increasingly concentrated. Therefore, numerous studies have investigated the impact of changes in market structures. This paper examines the ... -
Spatial Price Transmission, Transaction Costs, and Econometric Modelling and Modelling Salmonella Spread in Broiler Production
Machado, Pedro Celso, Junior (2019-07)Transaction costs are major determinants of price transmission across space and must be accounted for when modelling price transmission. This article contributes to literature by evaluating the impact of not properly ...