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Taxes and Land Preservation: Computing the Capital Gains Tax
(2014-12)Selling development rights or easements has tax implications for landowners, especially those who have owned their farms for a long period of time and seen land values escalate. This fact sheet discusses some of the ... -
Tenure Security, Land Markets, and Household Income: Procede and the Impact of the 1992 Reform in Mexico
(2004-04-27)In 1992, the Salinas administration launched a major reform liberalizing several aspects of Mexico's ejido sector. The reform is to be understood as a major effort at introducing and enforcing clearly defined property ... -
Three Empirical Studies in Market Design
(2009)Market design is the development of mechanisms that improve market efficiency and build on an understanding of the interaction between human behavior and market rules. The first chapter considers the sale of a charitable ... -
THREE ESSAYS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2014)The first chapter derives an empirically testable set of propositions on the determinants of environmental aid as a non-market solution for trans-border pollution. The donor country balances environmental benefits against ... -
Three Essays on Coffee Markets
(2008-01-11)Among the most prominent contributions of agricultural economists to the development field is the analysis of issues in commodity marketing. The topics include the role of competition among market intermediaries in determining ... -
Three Essays on Non-Balanced Economic Growth, Economic Geography, and the Regulation of Public Land in the United States
(2014)This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay, "The Spatial Consequences of Non-Balanced Growth," develops a theoretical model of regional development to analyze the consequences of non-balanced growth ... -
Three Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Papers in Environmental Economics
(2011)This dissertation utilizes quasi-experimental and experimental techniques to contribute to the literature on environmental and resource economics in three distinct ways but with the overarching goal of demonstrating the ... -
To bid or not to bid: An investigation into economic incentives underling auction participation
(2012)This dissertation investigates the individual characteristics correlated with auction participation decisions using data from two commercial fishing license buybacks. I use the joint empirical analysis of stated and revealed ... -
Trend-Adjusted Yield Option Introduced for Crop Insurance
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Trend-Adjusted Yield Option Introduced for Crop Insurance
(2014-08)Fact sheet has been updated to reflect wheat trend adjustments for 2015 crop year. -
Understanding Agricultural Liability: Maryland’s Right-to-Farm Law Can Limit Liability for Maryland Farm, Commercial Fishing, and Seafood Operators
(2017-09)Many individuals moving into agricultural areas in Maryland have no farm backgrounds and little understanding of agricultural operations. The same is true of commercial fishing and seafood operations in Maryland. Once ... -
United States Farm Subsidies: A Question of Equity and Efficiency
(CANRP, 2012-02-03)Are United States farm subsidies fair? Should they and can they be made more fair? Do farm subsidies even impact their intended targets? Dr. Barrett Kirwan at the University of Maryland takes a closer look. -
Using Farm Bill Programs The “Sum of the Parts” = Protection for Your Farm
(2014-09)This presentation was presented as a part of the 2014 Delaware and Maryland Crop Insurance Workshop. -
USING PREDICTED MARKET VALUES FOR ECOLOGICALLY VALUABLE NATURAL LANDS IN LAND PRESERVATION PROGRAM OPTIMAL TARGETING SCHEME: APPLICATION TO MARYLAND'S GREENPRINT PROGRAM
(2005-08-10)Thirty-eight U.S. states have programs to preserve land with ecological value yet few consider land acquisition costs in their selection criteria although targeting could improve the efficiency of these programs. To ...