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Rural agglomeration : how does the distribution of people across rural America affect entrepreneurship?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Where people live affects a region's economy. Urban economists have long analyzed the effects of large and densely settled regions -- urban agglomerations -- on the local economy, finding that people and businesses in these ...
The ecology of organizational forms in local and regional food systems: exploring the scaling-up challenge via a species concept
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Over the past 30 years, Western nations have developed alternative systems for exchanging agrofood products which incorporate social values into the transactional environment. These systems are comprised of many different ...
Adjusting organizational structure for cooperative longevity : Missouri farmers association, 1920 - 1950
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The objective of this qualitative exploratory study is to analyze the process which led Missouri Farmer Association (MFA) to dramatically change its ...
Comparing the impacts of biofuels using survey and non-survey data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This paper utilizes survey data to compare several non-survey methods of modeling the economic impacts of biofuels plants. It examines differences in the input coefficients derived from the survey versus the trade coefficients ...
An analysis of the financial structure of local farm supply cooperatives in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
"Cooperative farm supply organizations are very important in Missouri’s agribusiness economy. During the period 1969-1970, farm supply cooperatives accounted for 26% of the feed, 28% of the seed, 31% of the fertilizer and ...
Investor capital, taxes and the structure of cattle feeding
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
The study found that nonagricultural investors are providing a sizeable and increasing share of the risk capital that finances the nation's fed beef production. The entry of nonagricultural investors is occurring even ...
Structure and organization comparisons of U.S. large volume swine producers : a national survey
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1986)
A national sample of hog operations marketing 1,000 head or more a year was taken in 1981. A mail questionnaire gathered the necessary information. A second survey grouped operations into three groups: feeder pig producers, ...
Incentives for food crop production in Tanzania : with special reference to the Mbeya region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1984)
The objectives of this study were to determine the potential impacts of a) increased output prices, b) reduction of input costs, and c) improved technology on increasing food production, specifically marketable surplus in ...
Phytase : anatomy of an invisible win-win technology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Phytase is an enzyme that frees the phosphorous and other nutrients bound in phytate so they can be digested by non-ruminant animals. Phytase has the potential to decrease the cost of feed and decrease the phosphorous in ...
The investment horizon issue in user-owned organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This research addresses the issue of an investment constraint in user-owned agricultural organizations called the horizon problem. Scholars have suggested the restrictions on the transferability of residual claimant rights ...
Regulation and distribution of wine in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This dissertation provides an empirical linkage between New Institutional Economics and the United States alcohol industry, with a specific look at the wine industry. Using an institutional economics framework, it analyzes ...
Uncertainty and the microfoundations of supply response : some theoretical considerations and an empirical application in the U.S. corn market
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
This study has examined how a micro-level decision model which incorporates uncertainty can be reconciled with observed market behavior. Conditions under which a firm-market correspondence exists in a deterministic environment ...
Neighborhood effects, convergence and growth in open economies of U.S. and Mexico
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation consists of three papers. "Optional sales tax holidays: Which jurisdictions participate? Logit and a spatial analyses," I reviewed the literature regarding strategic interaction among jurisdictions and ...
Nudging meat eaters towards plant-based meat alternatives : an online supermarket experiment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
We implement a non-hypothetical online grocery shopping experiment to study the impact of health and environment related information nudges on consumers' purchases of meat and plant-based meat alternatives. More specifically, ...
An alternative futures analysis of Flathead County, Montana : evaluating tradeoffs among economic growth, land use policy and land use change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Nine alternative futures were developed for Flathead County, MT for two study periods. The alternative futures involve different combinations of assumptions regarding future economic growth and land use polices. The ...
Cross-cutting knowledge organizations as leverages of entrepreneurial activity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Motivated by the possibility of obtaining relational rents (Dyer & Singh, 1998; Lavie, 2006), firms have used inter-firm networks as knowledge leverages. ...
An inventory control model for fertilizer retailers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
Introduction and literature review: The demand for fertilizer is highly seasonal in nature with peak demand periods in the spring and again in the fall. In contrast, fertilizer is manufactured year-round in order to take ...
Adoption of nutrient management practices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Off-farm income has recently been incorporated into the analysis of technology adoption, due to its increasing share in total farm household income in the U.S. Previous studies, however, found inconsistent results with ...
Three essays in regional economic modeling
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
My dissertation is about regional economic modeling for understanding local economy, economic impact analysis and forecasting. In the first essay, I developed a nonspatial version of community policy analysis model for ...
An analysis of livestock marketing patterns in Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1960)
"Missouri is fortunate in its strategic location near the heart of the grain belt east of the Great plains cattle producing areas and on the western fringe of concentrated centers of population. A combination of favorable ...