Agriculture

  2013 MAY 16 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- A new study on Agricultural Economics is now available. According to news reporting from La Jolla, California, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Exploiting variability in the managerial dimension, this paper presents firm management through firm and time effects in a production function that uses a three-way fixed effect model and a unique panel dataset that tracks multiple managers for each firm from 1980-2007. ...read more

  2013 MAY 16 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- New research on Agricultural Economics is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Pullman, Washington, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Economists estimating demand and supply systems face the question of using shares or quantities as dependent variables. This article finds that inconsistent estimates are obtained if one makes the wrong choice. ...read more

  2013 MAY 16 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Agriculture Week -- Research findings on Agricultural Economics are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Laval, Canada, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "To explain price volatility in the U.S. agricultural, energy, and metal futures markets, we estimate a model of common and commodity-specific, high- and low-frequency factors by building on the spline-GARCH model of Engle and Rangel (2008). A better model fit results from allowing the unconditional variance to slowly change over time. ...read more