Browsing Agricultural & Resource Economics by Title
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Reporting Continuous Release Emissions
(2018-01-16)The 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act contained language that would exempt agricultural operations from reporting under CERCLA. This fact sheet is left up as a reference for those wondering what reporting looked like ... -
Resilience and Adaptation to Natural Hazards: Evidence from Indonesia
(2015)The objective of this dissertation is to examine the ways in which households recover from and adapt to changing conditions as a result of natural hazards. I use Indonesia as a case study. The dissertation is divided into ... -
Revenue Insurance Now Available For Dairy Producers
(2018-10)USDA recently approved a financial risk management program for farmers who are vulnerable to dairy price fluctuations. The Dairy Revenue Protection program is buy-in insurance that covers a percentage of a producer’s ... -
Review of Lender Requirements for Beginning Farmer Loan Programs
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Risk Management Implications of the 2014 Farm Bill
(2014-08-12)Gives an overview of the risk management decisions that producers will need to consider as a part of the 2014 farm bill. Presentation was given around Maryland in August of 2014. -
The Role of Information in Policy Implementation
(2020)Firms will comply with a regulation when the expected costs of noncompliance exceed the expected benefits. If the regulator has incomplete enforcement information and firms are aware of this, it will enter into their ... -
The Role of Price Information in Agricultural Markets: Evidence from Rural Peru
(2014)Agriculture is a source of livelihood for 86% of households in rural areas, many of whom rely on their crops for income. However, many farmers in isolated areas do not have access to reliable market price information that ... -
The Role of Prices and Information in Residential Energy Consumption and Investment Behavior
(2012)Good stewardship of the planet's natural resources is the central challenge of our age, and energy generation and usage has become an important dimension of the current debate about sustainability. Americans spend approximately ... -
THE ROLE OF SOILS IN PRODUCTION: AGGREGATION, SEPARABILITY, AND YIELD DECOMPOSITION IN KENYAN AGRICULTURE
(2015)Agricultural production relies on soils. Increasing global population and the impact of climate change threaten the sustainability of soil for agricultural production. For these reasons, it is necessary to broaden present ... -
Sample Farmer Resume
(2015-01)Sample resume that a producer could use to help demonstrate to a landlord how the producer operates his/her farm. -
Seafood Safety Regulations: Do They Make Our Food Safer?
(CANRP, 2012-01-06)How do new federal guidelines for food safety affect the behavior of seafood processors? How well are they working? Could they be improved? Dr. Anna Alberini and Dr. Erik Lichtenberg at the University of Maryland take a ... -
Self-regulation, productivity, and nonlinear pricing. Three essays on quality production in agricultural markets
(2006-05-16)In this dissertation I analyze the quality choices of a group of producers. In the first essay I use mechanism design to study the interaction of asymmetric information and the democratic process in the quality choices of ... -
SERVICE QUALITY AND ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE REGULATION OF MONOPOLIES: THE CHILEAN ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY
(2008-01-03)This study is an enquiry about the role that service quality, asymmetric information, scope of regulation and regulator's preferences play in the regulation of monopolies, with an application to the case of the Chilean ... -
Simulated Trading for Maryland’s Nitrogen Loadings in the Chesapeake Bay: A Policy Overlook
(CANRP, 2012-04-13)Jim Hanson and Ted McConnell looked at whether decreasing nutrients into the Bay could cost less if trading is permitted. Rather than having the sewage treatment plants install new technology (high cost), these sewage ... -
Social Preferences Among Clinicians in Tanzania: Evidence from the Lab and the Field
(2011)Health worker effort can have a dramatic influence on patient outcomes. This is especially true in developing countries, where poor overall quality of healthcare systems is the norm. There is evidence, however, that despite ... -
Soil - From Texture to Structure to Sustainability
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SPATIAL EFFECTS OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS ON ILLEGAL DEFORESTATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
(2019)Deforestation worldwide is a major concern. In developing countries, it is a merciless and devastating reality. My thesis addresses how local governance institutions' strength influences this phenomenon, focusing on the ... -
State Review of Environmental Impacts Could Result in Mineral Leasing Opportunities in Maryland
(2014-05)Starting in 2007, many western Maryland landowners saw increased oil and gas leasing as gas companies further developed the Marcellus Shale which contains one of the largest known natural gas reserves in the world. The ... -
Stated Preference Methods and Models: Analyzing Recreational Angling in New England Groundfisheries
(2011)Policy analysis of nonmarket goods requires accurate knowledge about the behavior of economic agents. This dissertation explores several facets of behavior models in recreational angling for three New England groundfish ... -
A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF INSECT CONTROL DECISIONS: ROOTWORM RESISTANCE IN US CORN FIELDS
(2014)Recent evidence from field tests and laboratory studies suggest that rootworms are adapting to the toxins produced by genetically modified, insect resistant (Bt) seeds. Given that rootworms cause over 1 billion dollars in ...