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Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Supply chain risk in grain trading: Inventories as real options for shipping grain

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating trading and logistics is an important challenge in commodity trading. Trading and logistics are strategic decisions and are integral to most commodities including grain shipping by rail, in addition to other modes (barges, ocean shipping). There are substantial risks, such as the ordering and placement of rail cars.
William W. Wilson, Jesse Klebe
wiley   +1 more source

Channel and Power Allocation for Multi-Cell NOMA Using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning and Unsupervised Learning. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Sun M, Zhong Y, He X, Zhang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

An investigation of the price discovery role of futures markets: A dynamic time warping analysis of the United States corn markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Futures markets are critical to price discovery and often dominate spot markets. We analyze the linkages between daily corn futures and spot prices in the United States using dynamic time warping. This nonparametric pattern recognition technique has several advantages over traditional time series methods.
Dragan Miljkovic, Puneet Vatsa, Frayne Olson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Device-Driven Service Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing with Location Prediction. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Zeng Q, Li X, Chen Y, Yang M, Liu X, Liu Y, Xiu S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Determining the influence of belonging to a wine protected designation of origin on profitability

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract To guide consumers, wineries need credible attributes about the quality of their wines and its origin. In Spain, protected designations of origin (PDO) guarantee that the wine has been produced in a certain wine region in accordance with specific and officially regulated quality criteria thus providing elements of guarantee to the consumer ...
Jordi Moreno Gené, Sònia Solé Puiggené, José Luis Gallizo Larraz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital blinding of radiographs to mask allocation in a randomized control trial

, 2017
Gerard P. Slobogean, Lukasz Soswa, Giuliana Rotunno, Peter J. O’Brien, Kelly A. Lefaivre   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Beyond subsistence? The role of rural cooperatives in driving smallholder commercialization in Ethiopia

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from subsistence to market‐oriented agriculture holds the potential to boost rural economic progress and improve the well‐being of the rural poor in developing countries. Despite this potential, there is limited understanding of the key drivers for smallholder commercialization. In this study, we utilize comprehensive three‐wave
Abebayehu Girma Geffersa, Md. Monirul Islam   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the efficiency of health resource allocation in the western region of China-based on three-stage DEA and Tobit regression analysis. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Zhao D, Huang H, Zhang Y, Li S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Disentangling the relationships between denomination of origin regulatory councils activities and Spanish wineries' export performance

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin, Marta Fernández‐Olmos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source