Recently added articles from Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics:
Valuing Intellectual Property Rights in an Imperfectly Competitive Market: A Biopharming Application
Dec 01, 2009; ... Small research firms developing biotechnology applications often focus on establishing intellectual property rights (IPRs), which can then be sold to more established firms with existing market channels. This paper presents a method for valuing the IPRs for an innovation that lowers product ...
The Impact of Integration Strategies on Food Business Firm Value
Dec 01, 2009; ... The objective of this study is to analyze whether a discount or premium exists for coordination strategies in food processing, wholesale grocery, retail supermarkets, and restaurants. Significant premiums are found for food processor and restaurant vertical integration or diversification ...
Willingness-to-Pay for Attribute Level and Variability: The Case of Mexican Millers' Demand for Hard Red Winter Wheat
Dec 01, 2009; ... In-person interviews were carried out with Mexican millers who were administered a conjoint-type survey designed to incorporate uncertainty in attribute levels. Two methods were used to model millers' risk preferences: a modified mean-variance approach and an explicit expected utility approach ....
Lump Sum versus Annuity: Choices of Kentucky Farmers during the Tobacco Buyout Program
Dec 01, 2009; ... Our study uses the data collected during the implementation of the tobacco buyout program in Kentucky to evaluate how rural households, diverse in income, age, family structure, location, education level, and other characteristics, made a choice between annuities and a lump-sum payment. Subjects ...
Factors Influencing Wheat Yield and Variability: Evidence from Manitoba, Canada
Dec 01, 2009; ... Production functions to explain regional wheat yields have not been studied extensively in the Canadian prairies. The objective of this study is to employ a Just-Pope production function to examine the relationship between fertilizer inputs, soil quality, biodiversity indicators, cultivars ...