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A semi-annual econometric model of the United States feed grain-livestock economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1979)
The forecasting performance of agricultural commodity models has been critically evaluated following the extreme agricultural commodity price fluctuations of the early and mid 1970’s. One approach to improving intermediate ...
Expectation formulations and optimal decisions in cattle feedlot problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
Economic agents are continually required or assumed to make decisions based upon variables which are unknown or perhaps known with some degree of uncertainty. In order to aid the decision maker in making intelligent ...
A quarterly econometric model of the United States beef sector
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1982)
The United States beef sector has been modeled in many studies, perhaps, because beef represents a large proportion of the consumer food dollar and agriculture’s income. The predictive performance of these models has been, ...
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 ...