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Import demand for fresh tomatoes and onions in Saudi Arabia
(2004-05)
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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 ...
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 ...