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Variability In Rice Returns Using A Representative Farm Approach, Adriana Dimas
Variability In Rice Returns Using A Representative Farm Approach, Adriana Dimas
LSU Master's Theses
Agriculture is a major contributor to the U.S. economy and vital to the continued availability of a safe and inexpensive food supply. Representative farms are virtual farms that represent the production practices of a specific crop and region. Annually, growers face critical management decisions on what crop enterprise selection and combinations will maximize the net returns. Risk for growers comes from the variation in different factors such as yield, market price, production input costs, among others that are required to produce each enterprise. Nine representative farms were established within Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas to evaluate net return variability among different …
Lsu Research Fall 2018, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Lsu Research Fall 2018, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
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LSU Research is published annually by the Office of Research & Economic Development, Louisiana State University.
Feedstock Crop Production Costs And Biofuel Feedstock Input Costs Associated With The Production Of Energy Cane And Sweet Sorghum In The Southeastern Usa, Michael E. Salassi, Alessandro Holzapfel, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Howard P. Viator, Lawrence L. Falconer, Tyler B. Mark
Feedstock Crop Production Costs And Biofuel Feedstock Input Costs Associated With The Production Of Energy Cane And Sweet Sorghum In The Southeastern Usa, Michael E. Salassi, Alessandro Holzapfel, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Howard P. Viator, Lawrence L. Falconer, Tyler B. Mark
Faculty Publications
© 2017, The Author(s). Concentration of biofuel feedstock crop production in specific regions of the USA is dependent on the relative comparative advantage of production in a specific region based on several agronomic and economic factors. For the southeastern region of the USA, energy cane and sweet sorghum have been identified as two feedstock crops with the greatest potential for further development of production. This study utilized field trial data from yield studies in Louisiana to develop estimates of feedstock crop production costs and biofuel feedstock input costs for these two crops. Results indicated that feedstock production costs on a …
The Bread She Earns With Her Own Hands: An Examination Of Lincoln's Political Economy, Rodolfo K. Hernandez
The Bread She Earns With Her Own Hands: An Examination Of Lincoln's Political Economy, Rodolfo K. Hernandez
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation focuses on how Abraham Lincoln’s idea of “liberty to all” affected his political thought about the intersection of government and the economy. It is a search for Lincoln’s political economy. While contemporary economists focus on a single aspect of the person such as self-interest, Lincoln following thinkers such as Francis Wayland viewed economics as a moral science. I do this by examining the speeches and deeds of Abraham Lincoln. I explore topics such as what he meant by “liberty to all”, his valuing of a commercial society over an agrarian one, and his understanding of the importance of …
Trajectory Economics: Assessing The Flow Of Ecosystem Services From Coastal Restoration, Rex H. Caffey, Hua Wang, Daniel R. Petrolia
Trajectory Economics: Assessing The Flow Of Ecosystem Services From Coastal Restoration, Rex H. Caffey, Hua Wang, Daniel R. Petrolia
Faculty Publications
Monetized estimates of ecosystem services are increasingly cited as partial justification for a wide range of environmental restoration initiatives, yet parallel applications of these values in performance assessment have been limited. Incorporated into traditional economic models, such values can offer potential insight on programmatic efficiency and help to inform policy tradeoffs within and between competing methods. For this analysis, acreage trajectories and cost functions are developed for dredge- and diversion-based land reclamation methods in coastal Louisiana, USA. Benefit-cost models are constructed from which ecosystem service values are initially derived via break-even analysis and then specified to inform comparative case studies. …
Farm-Scale Cost Of Producing Perennial Energy Cane As A Biofuel Feedstock, Michael E. Salassi, Kayla Brown, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Tyler B. Mark, Lawrence L. Falconer
Farm-Scale Cost Of Producing Perennial Energy Cane As A Biofuel Feedstock, Michael E. Salassi, Kayla Brown, Brian M. Hilbun, Michael A. Deliberto, Kenneth A. Gravois, Tyler B. Mark, Lawrence L. Falconer
Faculty Publications
Energy cane varieties are high-fiber sugarcane clones which represent a promising feedstock in the production of alternative biofuels and biobased products. This study explored the crop establishment and whole farm production costs of growing energy cane as a biofuel feedstock in the southeastern USA. More specifically, total production costs on a feedstock dry matter biomass basis were estimated for five perennial energy cane varieties over alternative crop cycle lengths. Variable production costs for energy cane production were estimated to be in the $63 to $76 Mg-1 range of biomass dry matter for crop cycles through harvest of fourth through sixth …
An Alternative To Intellectual Property Theories Of Locke And Utilitarian Economics, Michael Morrissey
An Alternative To Intellectual Property Theories Of Locke And Utilitarian Economics, Michael Morrissey
LSU Master's Theses
In this paper, I examine two standard theories of intellectual property, voice criticisms of each theory from within their own perspectives, and offer an alternative approach to intellectual property. In the first chapter, I explicate Locke’s original property theory and provide a modern account of Lockean intellectual property as an extension of the original theory. I argue this extension is not compatible with Locke’s original thought on property rights. In the second chapter, I dissect the mainstream economic approach to intellectual property, an approach which employs utilitarianism to justify the intellectual property regime of first world, western nations. I argue …
Use Of Harvest Aid In Soybean: Application Timing, Economics And Interactions In Ipm Programs, Joseph Michael Boudreaux
Use Of Harvest Aid In Soybean: Application Timing, Economics And Interactions In Ipm Programs, Joseph Michael Boudreaux
LSU Master's Theses
Indeterminate and determinate soybean (Glycine max (L). Merr.) cultivars were treated with the harvest aids, paraquat and sodium chlorate, when moisture of seed collected from the uppermost four nodes of plants averaged 60, 50, 40, 30, and 20% (+ or - 2%). Harvest aid application at 60% seed moisture reduced yield of the Maturity Group (MG) IV indeterminate cultivar 15%, but yield was not affected with application at 50% seed moisture. For MG V and MG VI determinate cultivars, application at 60 and 50% seed moisture reduced yield 4 to 22%, but yield was not affected when harvest aid was …
"Are You Better Off"; Ronald Reagan, Louisiana, And The 1980 Presidential Election, Matthew David Caillet
"Are You Better Off"; Ronald Reagan, Louisiana, And The 1980 Presidential Election, Matthew David Caillet
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis describes how Ronald Reagan succeeded in carrying Louisiana in the 1980 Presidential election. Initially, pundits predicted the election, both statewide and nationwide, would be a “dead heat” between Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. Southern voters supported Carter, despite his many blunders; many American voters wondered if Reagan would be a competent leader. Reagan had a well-organized campaign and spent plenty of time in Louisiana, considered a pivotal “swing state.” His campaign team prepared speeches, explained issues, and received information and support from state Republican leaders, including Governor David Treen and Congressmen Robert Livingston and Henson Moore. Good local …
An Economic Analysis Of The Costs Of Alternative Sugarcane Fallow Weed Control Programs, José Rodolfo Mite Cáceres
An Economic Analysis Of The Costs Of Alternative Sugarcane Fallow Weed Control Programs, José Rodolfo Mite Cáceres
LSU Master's Theses
Economic research was conducted to present estimates of costs per acre associated with fallow sugarcane weed control programs for Louisiana in 2010. The 2010 projected costs are associated with the various phases of sugarcane fallow using different machinery, implements, and weed control practices followed by most growers in the main sugarcane production area of Louisiana. For bermudagrass and johnsongrass weed control treatments, the herbicides applied were Roundup Original Max at 46 oz/A, generic glyphosate at 64 oz/A, DuPont K4 60DG, Trifluralin 4EC at 4 qt/A, and EPTC at 3.5 pt/A. Purple nutsedge weed control treatments included Roundup Original Max at …
Value Of Clearfield Rice: An Agronomic And Economic Approach, Tyler Paul Carlson
Value Of Clearfield Rice: An Agronomic And Economic Approach, Tyler Paul Carlson
LSU Master's Theses
Field studies were conducted in Crowley, Louisiana and Stoneville, Mississippi in drill seeded rice to evaluate weed control, yield, and economical returns with imazethapyr programs. Red rice (Oryza sativa) and barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) was evaluated with imazethapyr applied alone at various rates and application timings. Imazethapyr, averaged across rate, controlled red rice 89% and barnyardgrass 90% when the initial application of imazethapyr was applied at emergence followed by (fb) a second application of imazethapyr two weeks after the initial application. While imazethapyr, averaged across timing, showed no differences for red rice and barnyardgrass control. Yield and economical returns were maximized …
The Spontaneous Generation Of Excess And Its Capitalist Capture, Ryanson Alessandro Ku
The Spontaneous Generation Of Excess And Its Capitalist Capture, Ryanson Alessandro Ku
LSU Master's Theses
This thesis evaluates the economic and Marxist claims on excess. As its official science, economics takes the capitalist economy as a given and explains excess as savings on costs resulting from the strategic planning of capitalist agents, whose point of view, in studying economic phenomena, economics takes. Marx, in a historicist move, argues that capitalism is but one political economy among many, where the facts assumed by economics, such as savings, are, far from given, attributable to a particular systemic formation (a political event) of social relations and materials into an economy. This systemic social formation that comes to be …
The Politics Of Improvement: Internal Improvements, Sectionalism, And Slavery In Mississippi 1820-1837, Sam Beardsley Todd
The Politics Of Improvement: Internal Improvements, Sectionalism, And Slavery In Mississippi 1820-1837, Sam Beardsley Todd
LSU Master's Theses
The increased consensus among historians that the emergence of a market revolution engendered widespread economic, political, and social changes throughout the second quarter of nineteenth-century America has brought a number of provocative questions to bear on the antebellum South. Among the most provocative is the assertion that during the 1830s, a strain of reform-minded southern planters took it upon themselves to integrate the regions subsistence farmers into the market economy. The historian Harry Watson has asserted that a small, but influential, group of southern planters sought to confront Dixie’s dilemma of pursuing a modern economy without cutting ties with the …
Soliciting Desire: The Ad-Man As Narrative Negotiation Between Art, Desire, And Consumer Capitalism In Twentieth-Century Novels, Jessica Mckelvie Kemp
Soliciting Desire: The Ad-Man As Narrative Negotiation Between Art, Desire, And Consumer Capitalism In Twentieth-Century Novels, Jessica Mckelvie Kemp
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
My dissertation identifies ways in which novelists have used an ad-man protagonist as means to investigate the social and psychological implications of advertising in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Soliciting Desire takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and demonstrates that the ad-man character’s particular constellation of traits provides a rich vehicle for fictional explorations of desire and subjectivity as they are formed in relation to ideologies of consumer capitalism and art. Guided by Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin’s theories of cultural/ capitalist …
An Economic Evaluation Of Sugarcane Combine Harvester Costs And Optimal Harvest Schedules For Louisiana, Francis Gil Barker
An Economic Evaluation Of Sugarcane Combine Harvester Costs And Optimal Harvest Schedules For Louisiana, Francis Gil Barker
LSU Master's Theses
Rising production costs, primarily associated with increasing fuel and fertilizer prices, combined with a relatively flat to slightly declining market price trend, have significantly reduced profit margins from sugarcane production in Louisiana over the past few years. Harvest operations are one area in which growers can have considerable influence on costs per unit. Estimation of current sugarcane harvest costs as well as economic evaluation of the impact of various factors on the performance and cost of this production phase are important to growers in conducting these harvest operations as efficiently and cost effectively as possible. The general objective of this …
Reduced Tillage And Residue Management Programs In Sugarcane (Saccharum Spp. Hybrids), Wilson Elie Judice
Reduced Tillage And Residue Management Programs In Sugarcane (Saccharum Spp. Hybrids), Wilson Elie Judice
LSU Master's Theses
The effect of tillage and weed control programs on ‘LCP 85-384’ sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) growth and yield and on economics was evaluated over two growing seasons. When row shoulders and middles were not tilled in March soil temperature in the non-cultivated sugarcane drill early in the growing season was equal to that where March tillage was performed. Sugarcane and sugar yield were each equivalent for the full season tillage (off-bar tillage in March plus layby tillage in May) and the no-till program. Weeds were effectively controlled with a March application of hexazinone at 0.59 kg ai/ha plus diuron at …
Economic Evaluation Of Alternative Rough Rice Marketing And Storage Strategies, April Street
Economic Evaluation Of Alternative Rough Rice Marketing And Storage Strategies, April Street
LSU Master's Theses
The alternative rough rice marketing and storage strategies were evaluated using three methods of analysis. The methods used in this study were MOTAD, simulation, and stochastic dominance. Historical rough rice prices from 1980/81 - 2000/01 was used and tested for trends and seasonality in order for the methods to be formed properly. SAS was used to verify that the data used in this study did not follow any time trend or reflect seasonality. MOTAD, simulation, and stochastic dominance were used to determine the most efficient marketing and storage strategy that will enable rice farmers to make the best decisions and …
The Budgetary Impacts Of European Integration: A General Equilibrium Analysis Of Turkish Accession Into The European Union., Selahattin Bekmez
The Budgetary Impacts Of European Integration: A General Equilibrium Analysis Of Turkish Accession Into The European Union., Selahattin Bekmez
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The main objective of this study is to examine the financial effects of Turkey's trade liberalization efforts, and evaluate the policy decisions made during the transition period toward full membership in the EU. In addition, trade relations between the enlarged EU and the rest of the world modeled to obtain complete general equilibrium results of Turkey-EU integration. In order to accomplish this objective, a single-country, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model is developed. The sectors evaluated are agriculture, manufacturing, and services. The Turkish economy is divided into 22 sectors: 2 agricultural, 18 manufacturing, and 2 services sectors. By so doing, the …
The Influence Of Agricultural Policy On Economic Integration Among Central American Countries: A Game Theoretic Analysis., Jorge Luis Icabalceta Mairena
The Influence Of Agricultural Policy On Economic Integration Among Central American Countries: A Game Theoretic Analysis., Jorge Luis Icabalceta Mairena
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The influence of eight commodity groups on international economic integration in five Central American countries are analyzed. The commodity groups are rice, beans, corn, sorghum, bananas, coffee, sugar, and beef. The countries are Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. A game theory framework is used to find a Nash equilibrium solution to a set of trade negotiation scenarios. The payoffs of the Political Preference Function (PPF) are used for the trade liberalization scenarios under analysis. These PPF payoffs are estimated using the MISS model. The nominal protection coefficient (NPC) is used as the main criterion for trade liberalization. …
An Economic Analysis Of The Allocation Of Research Funding At The National Institutes Of Health., Janet B. Daniel
An Economic Analysis Of The Allocation Of Research Funding At The National Institutes Of Health., Janet B. Daniel
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Our model examines the allocation of medical research funds at the National Institutes of Health using public interest theory, incremental budgeting theory, and special interest group theory. We use the allocation of research funds among various diseases and measures of the burden of disease on the population to test the hypothesis that the N.I.H. is allocating funds on a pure public interest basis, to test for incremental budgeting effects, and to test for the influence of lobbying and other political variables representing special interest groups. We use pooled cross-sectional, time-series data in a one-way fixed effects model, and also use …
Essays On Semiparametric Estimation., Kang-Sun Lee
Essays On Semiparametric Estimation., Kang-Sun Lee
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation is primary concerned on the study of semiparametric estimation approaches. In the respect of the usage of econometric analysis that is evaluating theoretical relationship, the semiparametric analysis is useful to get the flexibility of functional form. The kernel-type nonparametric methods are used for semiparametric approaches in this dissertation. The first essay focuses upon performance of various bandwidth selectors in the local linear regression method. The results indicate that the variable bandwidth selector is superior to constant bandwidth selector in the more skewed data set or complicated functional form. LSCV bandwidth selector fit well in the simple functional form. …
A Dynamic Econometric Model For The United States Rice Market., Sung Chul No
A Dynamic Econometric Model For The United States Rice Market., Sung Chul No
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Over the past two decades, developments in time series analysis have brought new approaches for combining structural characteristics of market models with stochastic processes that better represent available data. One line of research is the works of Zellner and Palm, which is known as structural econometric and time series analysis (SEMTSA). The other approach is the structural vector autoregressive model (SVAR), which is an economic-theory enhancement to the standard VAR approach. Empirical evaluations of how well these approaches may work in explaining the dynamics of commodity markets are lacking. The current study provides an empirical evaluation of these two approaches …
The Welfare And Distribution Impacts Of International Agricultural Trade Policies: An Analysis Of Turkey's Integration Into The European Union., Cemal Atici
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the agricultural trade policies of Turkey and determine the impact of various relevant policy scenarios on the welfare and distribution of income within the agricultural sector as well as between producers and consumer groups. The main goal of this research is to quantify the impact of trade liberalization resulting from multilateral agricultural trade agreements and the formation of regional trading blocs on Turkish agriculture and, consequently, the income distribution effects in the various producer and consumer groups. The study utilizes a partial equilibrium framework Modele Internationale Simplifie de Simulation (MISS) to analyze …
Seasoned Equity Issuance By Closed -End Funds., William Henry Brigham Jr
Seasoned Equity Issuance By Closed -End Funds., William Henry Brigham Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation examines in detail the previously unexamined phenomenon of seasoned equity issuance by closed-end funds. Evidence presented here indicates that closed-end funds issue equity at a much higher occurrence rate than is the case for regular, operating firms in the US. Furthermore, these funds overwhelmingly use the rights offer method of equity flotation, which, outside the closed-end universe, has rarely been used in the US in recent years. The evidence produced by this study indicates that, in contrast to industrial firms, the shares of closed-end funds show no significant reaction to announcements of either rights offerings or firm commitment …
Three Essays On Political Economy And International Trade., Far-Tsair Lai
Three Essays On Political Economy And International Trade., Far-Tsair Lai
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In the standard common agency model of politics, the interest groups always lobby a single policy-making entity for policy favor. To deal with this unreality, I step in some issues about the trade policy making that is entangled with the multiplicity of public decision-makers. My study cooperates multi-agent and the common agency model to analyze the trade policy making under the political system that is controlled by a number of lawmakers. The analysis points out that the committee of symmetric lawmakers behaves like a single government but the equilibrium policy is not efficient. Because the presence of multiple players on …
An Empirical Examination Of Maximum Entropy Estimation., Randall Charles Campbell
An Empirical Examination Of Maximum Entropy Estimation., Randall Charles Campbell
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Maximum entropy estimation is a relatively new estimation technique in econometrics. We carry out several Monte Carlo experiments using real data as a basis in order to understand the properties of the maximum entropy estimator. We compare the maximum entropy and generalized maximum entropy estimators to traditional estimation techniques in linear regression, binary choice, and multinomial choice models. In addition, we discuss maximum entropy estimation in censored and truncated regression models. We find that the generalized maximum entropy estimator dominates the logit estimator and the multinomial logit estimator in Monte Carlo experiments. The generalized maximum entropy estimator in discrete choice …
Impact Of Shrimp Imports On The United States' Southeastern Shrimp Processing Industry And Processed Shrimp Market., Hamady Diop
Impact Of Shrimp Imports On The United States' Southeastern Shrimp Processing Industry And Processed Shrimp Market., Hamady Diop
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The shrimp harvesting sector is the largest component of the southeastern United States fishing industry, accounting for 57% of the total value of landings in the region in 1996. U.S. shrimp imports were valued at $2.6 billion in 1996. Together, domestic production and imports of the raw product support a large shrimp processing sector, which provides several thousand jobs either directly or indirectly. In 1975 and 1984, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) investigated the industry to determine whether the volume of shrimp imports was high enough to threaten domestic firms which were producing articles similar to, or directly …
Essays On Identification Of Monetary Policy Shocks In Vector Autoregressive Models: Alternative Identification Schemes And Lag Structures., Keuk-Soo Kim
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation is primary concerned with the sensitivity of the effects of monetary policy shocks across alternative identification schemes and lag structures. The four widely-cited identification schemes of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (1994; 1996), Strongin (1995), Bernanke and Mihov (1998), and the long-run restrictions approach pioneered by Blanchard and Quah (1989) are used. Also, three types of lag structures---symmetric, Keating-type, and Hsiao-type asymmetric lag structures---are employed. The first essay focuses upon a closed economy framework. The results indicate that impulse response functions for macro variables are often sensitive to identification schemes and lag structures. For a given lag structure, the …
Analysis Of *Policy Alternatives In The Implementation Of A Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program For Agriculture., Hugo Cardona Castillo
Analysis Of *Policy Alternatives In The Implementation Of A Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program For Agriculture., Hugo Cardona Castillo
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Agriculture has been singled out as one of the major nonpoint sources of water pollution. To identify alternative policy tools for the implementation of a non-regulatory approach to comply with the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program (CNPCP) required by The Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, policy makers need to determine factors that may influence producers' willingness to adopt proposed Best Management Practices (BMPs). Neoclassical economic concepts of utility maximization on the part of agricultural producers constitutes the theoretical background in this study, but it is enhanced with the incorporation of a well proved set of theoretical tools based …
Estimating The Returns To Investment In Louisiana's Agricultural Research System., Yongli Zhu
Estimating The Returns To Investment In Louisiana's Agricultural Research System., Yongli Zhu
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study demonstrates one way in which the combined nonparametric and parametric estimates of returns-to-research can be used to build a stronger argument for public investment in agricultural research. The data used in this study were constructed from time series information covering the period 1949--95. Tornqvist-Theil quantity indices were calculated to determine the implicit state price for each input category. The returns-to-research in Louisiana agriculture were estimated using both nonparametric and parametric estimators, with appropriate emphasis given to lag structures, data coherence, and functional forms. Model misspecification testing for the parametric model was examined. Internal rates of return were calculated …