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Seasonal Corn And Soybean Pricing; Benchmarks For Your Beef Herd: Where To Find Them, Dick Shane, Gene Murra Dec 1997

Seasonal Corn And Soybean Pricing; Benchmarks For Your Beef Herd: Where To Find Them, Dick Shane, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


The Stock Market: Herd Mentality And Rationality; World Meat Production And Trade: Some Selected Comments, John Sodney, Gene Murra Nov 1997

The Stock Market: Herd Mentality And Rationality; World Meat Production And Trade: Some Selected Comments, John Sodney, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Does Human Capital Cause Economic Growth In Egypt?, Iman Mohamed Fouad Mohamed Nov 1997

Does Human Capital Cause Economic Growth In Egypt?, Iman Mohamed Fouad Mohamed

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Crop System Diversity: Historical Perspective And Current Policies, Thomas L. Dobbs, Linda M. Dumke Oct 1997

Crop System Diversity: Historical Perspective And Current Policies, Thomas L. Dobbs, Linda M. Dumke

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Small Business: A Tale Of Two Cities, George A. Erickcek Oct 1997

The Role Of Small Business: A Tale Of Two Cities, George A. Erickcek

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Impact Of South Dakota Agriculture 1991-1995, Martin K. Beutler Aug 1997

Impact Of South Dakota Agriculture 1991-1995, Martin K. Beutler

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


A View Of Romania; Livestock Situation And Outlook, Ardelle Lundeen, Gene Murra Jul 1997

A View Of Romania; Livestock Situation And Outlook, Ardelle Lundeen, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Small Business Capital Access Study For The Cleveland Area: Summary Outline Of Findings, George A. Erickcek Jul 1997

Small Business Capital Access Study For The Cleveland Area: Summary Outline Of Findings, George A. Erickcek

Reports

No abstract provided.


South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1997, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jul 1997

South Dakota Agricultural Land Values And Rental Practices: 1997, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Value Based Marketing For Fed Cattle: Part Ii Grid Pricing; Migration, Housing Rural Renewal, Scott W. Fausti, John A. Sondey Jun 1997

Value Based Marketing For Fed Cattle: Part Ii Grid Pricing; Migration, Housing Rural Renewal, Scott W. Fausti, John A. Sondey

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Introduction To Value Based Marketing For Fed Cattle; Hay Prices Expected To Hold Into Early Summer, Scott W. Fausti, Donald Peterson May 1997

Introduction To Value Based Marketing For Fed Cattle; Hay Prices Expected To Hold Into Early Summer, Scott W. Fausti, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xiv, No. 2, Wku Latin American Studies May 1997

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xiv, No. 2, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies program regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.


State And Industrial Capitalists In Egypt, SāMir SulaymāN May 1997

State And Industrial Capitalists In Egypt, SāMir SulaymāN

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Price Comparisons For Organic Crop Products, Thomas L. Dobbs, Lisa Carr Apr 1997

Price Comparisons For Organic Crop Products, Thomas L. Dobbs, Lisa Carr

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Social And Community Indicators To Monitor Berrien County's Needs For Social And Public Services, George A. Erickcek, Sharon Hanrahan, Sharon Pittman Mar 1997

Social And Community Indicators To Monitor Berrien County's Needs For Social And Public Services, George A. Erickcek, Sharon Hanrahan, Sharon Pittman

Reports

No abstract provided.


Livestock And Meat Trade; Sheep And Lamb Outlook, Gene Murra, Gene Murra Mar 1997

Livestock And Meat Trade; Sheep And Lamb Outlook, Gene Murra, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Crop Revenue Coverage: Price And Yield Protection; Livestock Outlook: 1997, Burton Pflueger, Gene Murra Mar 1997

Crop Revenue Coverage: Price And Yield Protection; Livestock Outlook: 1997, Burton Pflueger, Gene Murra

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Agriculture's Future Model; New Farm Bill Requires Careful Cost Control, Burton Pflueger, Donald Peterson Jan 1997

Agriculture's Future Model; New Farm Bill Requires Careful Cost Control, Burton Pflueger, Donald Peterson

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.


Assessing The Importance Of Small Business In The Greater Cleveland Area, George A. Erickcek Jan 1997

Assessing The Importance Of Small Business In The Greater Cleveland Area, George A. Erickcek

Reports

No abstract provided.


Local Economic Development As A Game: We’Re Caught In A Trap, I Can’T Walk Out …, Stephen Ellis, Cynthia Rogers Jan 1997

Local Economic Development As A Game: We’Re Caught In A Trap, I Can’T Walk Out …, Stephen Ellis, Cynthia Rogers

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

This paper uses game theory to analyze the practice of offering incentives to attract new firms to localities. It demonstrates that in trying to attract firms localities are faced with something like a prisoner’s dilemma: they are compelled to offer incentives but would be better off if they could agree not compete for firms. The dilemma that localities face explains why the bidding war for firms continues to escalate despite calls by economists and politicians for disarmament.


Sense Of Community And Neighbourhood Form: An Assessment Of The Social Doctrine Of New Urbanism, Emily Talen Jan 1997

Sense Of Community And Neighbourhood Form: An Assessment Of The Social Doctrine Of New Urbanism, Emily Talen

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

New urbanism , an umbrella term which encompasses `neotrad itional development’ as well as `traditional neighbourhood design’, lives by an unswerving belief in the ability of the built environment to create a `sense of community’. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the social doctrine of new urbanism can be successfu lly supported or at least integrated with the social science literatu re which deals with the question of com munity form ation . Towards this goal, the paper ®rst delineates the social doctrine of new urbanism, and then discusses the conceptual fram eworks and empirical ®ndings that …


Wavelet Analysis Of Commodity Price Behavior, Russell Davidson, Walter C. Labys, Jean-Baptiste Lesourd Jan 1997

Wavelet Analysis Of Commodity Price Behavior, Russell Davidson, Walter C. Labys, Jean-Baptiste Lesourd

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

We propose a form of semi-nonparametric regression based on wavelet analysis. Traditional time series methods usually involve either the time or the frequency domain, but wavelets can combine the information from both of these. While wavelet transforms are typically restricted to equally spaced observations an integer power of 2 in number, we show how to go beyond these constraints. We use our methods to construct ‘patios’ for 21 important international commodity price series. These graph the magnitude of the variations in the series at different time scales for various subperiods of the full sample.


Measuring The Public Realm: A Case Study, Emily Talen Jan 1997

Measuring The Public Realm: A Case Study, Emily Talen

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Urban planners are vitally interested in the role, meaning, and use of public space. The recent trend toward building neighborhoods and towns according to the doctrine of new urbanism - a movement which seeks to promote sense of community by adhering to certain principles about the physical arrangement of space - brings the debate about the use of public space and its effect on social life to the forefront. New urbanism stresses the need to resurrect a more civic focus in town planning principles via the provision of public space ( Kunstler, 1996 ; Hochstein, 1994), a view based on …


Social Contacts And Job Searching: Does Gender Of Contact Matter?, F Carson Mencken Jan 1997

Social Contacts And Job Searching: Does Gender Of Contact Matter?, F Carson Mencken

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

In this study, I investigate how the gender of the social contact women use to find jobs affects the gender composition of the jobs that women find. Using a subsample of women in the Metropolitan Employer Worker Survey, I test two competing hypotheses about the effects of gender of social contact using multivariate logistic regression. Controlling for a range of individual, household, occupation/industry and organization variables, the analysis shows that females are significantly less likely to find female dominated jobs when they find their jobs through male contacts, compared to female contacts. Moreover, I also show that traditional measures of …


The Effects Of Federal Spending On Earnings Change In Appalachia, F. Carson Mencken, James H. Noonan Jan 1997

The Effects Of Federal Spending On Earnings Change In Appalachia, F. Carson Mencken, James H. Noonan

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

In this paper we investigate the effects of federal spending on earnings change in Appalachian counties during the 1983-88 recovery and 1989-92 recession. Specifically, we explore the effects of federal spending from grants/research, procurement, salary/wages and defense. The analysis controls for key concepts in the human ecology and new urban sociology. The dependent variables are earnings change for each business cycle from a shift-share analysis, which decomposes county earnings change into that from nationally declining industries. The analysis shows that federal spending has no effect on earnings change, when it is considered as an aggregate measure. However, when federal spending …


Linking Spatial Statistics With Gis: Operational Issues In The Spacestat-Arcview Link And The S+Grassland Link, Shuming Bao, Luc Anselin Jan 1997

Linking Spatial Statistics With Gis: Operational Issues In The Spacestat-Arcview Link And The S+Grassland Link, Shuming Bao, Luc Anselin

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

The extension of the functional capacity of geographic information systems (GIS) with tools for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) has been an increasingly active area of research in recent years. In this paper, two operational implementations that link spatial analysis software with a GIS are considered more closely. They consist of a linkage between the SpaceStat software for spatial data analysis and the ArcView GIS (based on socalled loose coupling), and the S+Grassland Link between S-PLUS/SpatialStats and Grassland GIS (based on so-called close coupling). The emphasis is on the implementation of methods of exploratory spatial data analysis to describe spatial …


Regional Economic Effects Of University Research: A Survey, Attila Varga Jan 1997

Regional Economic Effects Of University Research: A Survey, Attila Varga

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Previous research is classified into four broad categories in this paper: the study of a university’s impact on the location choice of high technology facilities, the investigation of university impact on the spatial distribution of high technology production, the analysis of the spatial pattern of industrial research and development activities, and the modeling of local knowledge transfers emanating from academic institutions. It is found that the university effect on the location choice of high technology facilities depends on certain area characteristics. There is a strong evidence in the literature of local academic technology transfers. Regarding the effect of university technology …


Rao’S Score Test In Spatial Econometrics, Luc Anselin Jan 1997

Rao’S Score Test In Spatial Econometrics, Luc Anselin

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Rao's score test provides an extremely useful framework for developing diagnostics against hypotheses that reflect cross-sectional or spatial correlation in regression models, a major focus of attention in spatial econometrics. In this paper, a review and assessment is presented of the application of Rao's score test against three broad classes of spatial alternatives: spatial autoregressive and moving average processes, spatial error components and direct representation models. A brief review is presented of the various forms and distinctive characteristics of RS tests against spatial processes. New tests are developed against the alternatives of spatial error components and direct representation models. It …


A Kalman-Filter Approach To Estimating The Natural Rate Of Unemployment, Victor V. Claar Jan 1997

A Kalman-Filter Approach To Estimating The Natural Rate Of Unemployment, Victor V. Claar

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

The terms “NAIRU” and “natural rate of unemployment” are not interchangeable. Further, while there is a consensus that the NAIRU represents an empirical macroeconomic relationship, little agreement exists regarding what is meant by the “natural rate of unemployment.” This paper estimates the natural rate of unemployment, defined here as the unemployment rate corresponding to equilibrium in the labor market. Rather than employ a Phillips curve, the model utilizes a macroeconomic-principles-level decomposition of the unemployment rate into its cyclical and noncyclical components. We then evaluate the estimated natural rate series by examining its relationship to structural variables from the labor market.


A Spatial Analysis Of Southern Gubernatorial Elections: 1965-1997, Chuck Failing Iv Jan 1997

A Spatial Analysis Of Southern Gubernatorial Elections: 1965-1997, Chuck Failing Iv

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

For nearly a century the Democratic Party exerted an unmatched influence at all levels of government in the southern United States. This is particularly true in the eleven former Confederate states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. In turn, the policies and personalities of politicians and voters in the South played immense roles in shaping the national Democratic Party and national policies. This paper illustrates the dynamics of political change in the South at the gubernatorial level, and quantifies the magnitude of change over time with statistical analysis.