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Intertemporal change in cost efficiency and its determinants using a base period approach: An evidence from Korean rice farms
(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 ...
Three essays on rural health economics
(2022-07)
Rural hospitals in the U.S. have been struggling financially for the past few decades. The increased number of rural hospitals in financial distress has led to an acceleration in rural hospital closures. Rural hospital ...
Essays on horn fly control economics in stocker cattle, stocker cattle producer purchasing preferences, and food insecurity during COVID-19
(2021-12)
Horn flies cause extensive economic loss to cattle. The efficiency of two insecticides to controll horn flies, Corathon® and LongRange®, and the profitabilities that stocker cattle producer could expect to achieve were ...
Accounting for attention changes in discrete choice experiments and modeling adverse selection in the cattle procurement market
(2021-07)
This first paper conducts a discrete choice experiment to estimate turfgrass producers' willingness to accept (WTA) values using different logit models and specifications to capture respondents' attention. We first estimate ...
Essays on estimating market power exertion in the U.S. beef packing industry
(2020-05)
The first essay discusses the aggregation bias issue in estimating the degree of market power for agricultural and food industries and explores ways to improve the conjectural elasticity estimates using proper aggregation ...
Modelling and evaluating strategies to reduce bale handling costs in a cooperative cotton warehouse
(2020-12)
Cooperatively owned cotton warehouses have unique inventory management issues. Unlike some other agricultural commodities, cotton is stored and marketed on an identity preserved individual basis. Unlike other warehouses ...