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Analyses of retained ownership and value-added management practices by cow-calf producers
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This research is composed of three essays about value-added management practices by cow-calf producers. The first essay estimates the real option value of retaining ownership of beef calves past ...
Essays on School Size and Student Performance, Hay Yield and Weather Variation, and Economic Development Program Evaluation
(2019-05-01)
Spatial econometrics deal with spatial interaction effects. Models incorporating neighboring effects are more appropriate in education economics, production economics, and regional science. In this dissertation, spatial ...
Three essays on insurance and options in agricultural economics
(2017-05)
Rating of insurance policies depends on the probability of events in the tail of the distribution. A modeling tool based on extreme value theory to measure such tail-related risk could potentially improve insurance rating. ...
Three essays: Switchgrass yield prediction; biomass harvesting cooperative; and Oklahoma grain infrastructure replacement
(2014-05)
The first essay estimates switchgrass yields in Oklahoma using average temperature and total rainfall during summer months. The fitted model agrees well with available yield data and the estimated yields were consistent ...
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 ...
Economic analysis of structural change in feedlot cattle death loss
(2018-05)
Anecdotal evidence suggesting that feedlot cattle death loss is increasing over time has revived a need for further research on death loss in feedlots. Death loss may be related to controllable factors including technology ...
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 ...