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Essays in incomplete agricultural markets.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays in incomplete agricultural markets./
Author:	Cross, Robin M.
Description:	92 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0695.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02A.
Subject:	Economics, Agricultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3165842
ISBN:	0542010402

Essays in incomplete agricultural markets.
Cross, Robin M.

Essays in incomplete agricultural markets. - 92 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0695.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oregon State University, 2005.

Agricultural revenues, the product of stochastic prices and yields, lead to markets which are incomplete, thereby entreating and complicating economic inquiry. The following three essays explore the incomplete nature of agricultural markets and consider the implications of incompleteness for a range of policy questions and economic tools.

ISBN: 0542010402Subjects--Topical Terms:

626648
Economics, Agricultural.

Essays in incomplete agricultural markets.
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520 $a The first essay, "Cooperative Pricing Policy Under Stress: The Case of Tri Valley Growers," explores the incomplete contract markets that arise from unobservable yield processes. I formalize a common class of forward contracts, decompose them into a convex combination of yield derivatives, then derive the arbitrage-free forward price bounds. These bounds are used to show how the Board of Directors of a large agricultural cooperative, Tri Valley Growers, overstated earnings in order to liquidate financial equity.
520 $a The second essay, "Adapting Cooperative Structure for the New Global Environment," follows up on the first by showing that the liquidating strategy Tri Valley's Board pursued was rational in terms of maximizing expected net present value of future cash flows. I derive a condition under which optimal equity retention is strictly greater for investor-owned than for cooperatively owned firms. Finally, I use ruin probabilities associated with the standard first-crossing-time problem, together with numerical integration methods, to verify that this condition held under the market conditions in which Tri Valley and its investor-owned rivals operated.
520 $a The third essay, "DEA and The Law of One Price," explores the effect of variable prices on technical efficiency estimation. Data commonly are furnished in value, rather than factor terms. This raises the question of how value-based DEA models coincide with factor-based models. A sufficient condition for the two models to coincide is that all firms face the same set of prices. In practice, however, prices commonly vary across firms. I show that, unless an unreasonable restriction holds, the two models do not coincide. I decompose the resulting estimation error into its technology and firm-related components. Using Farrell's original 1957 data set to illustrate, the resulting estimation error is found to be both systematic and one-sided.
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