Ludena, Carlos, Hertel, Thomas, Preckel, Paul, Foster, Kenneth, Nin Pratt, Alejandro
There is considerable interest in projections of future productivity growth in agriculture. Whether one is interested in the outlook for global commodity markets, future patterns of international...
Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System (2006)
Cranfield, John, Preckel, Paul, Hertel, Thomas
This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand...
Hertel, Thomas, Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul, Cranfield, John
Poverty reduction is an increasingly important consideration in the deliberations over multilateral trade liberalization. However, the analytical procedures used to assess the impacts of multilateral...
Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Poverty in Developing Countries (2003)
Hertel, Thomas, Ivanic, Maros, Preckel, Paul, Cranfield, John
"Globalization increases poverty" is a common assertion made by critics of globalization. The proliferation of low-wage jobs and higher food prices are some of the arguments brought forward in...
Projecting World Food Demand Using Alternative Demand Systems (2003)
Yu, Wusheng, Hertel, Thomas, Preckel, Paul, Eales, James
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are increasingly being used to project world food markets in order to support forward-looking policy analysis. Such projections hinge critically on the...
Evaluation of Alternative Coordination Systems (2003)
Between Producers And, Michael Poray, Allan Gray, Michael Boehlje, Paul Preckel
this paper preclude a detailed discussion of the components. A more detailed description of the models is available from the authors upon request
Hertel, Thomas W., Maros Ivanic, Paul Preckel, John Cranfield
Poverty reduction is an increasingly important consideration in the deliberations over multilateral trade liberalization. However, the analytical procedures used to assess the impacts of multilateral...
Implicit Additive Preferences: A Further Generalization of the CES
Paul Preckel, Thomas Hertel, John Cranfield
The CES is generalized by extension of the work of Hanoch (1975) resulting in implicit, direct and indirect relationships between utility and consumption. Expressions for substitution and income...
Tomas Nilsson, Paul Preckel, Bo Öhlmer, Hans Andersson
Households in the Western Hemisphere are no longer self sufficient in food production. Viewing the product from the shelves in the grocery store makes it difficult for the consumer to gain insight in...
Changes in the Structure of Global Food Demand
Cranfield, John, James Eales, Thomas W. Hertel, Paul Preckel
May 1998 Purdue AGEC Staff Paper #98-5 A newly developed demand system is used to estimate the response of food and food product demand to per capita expenditure changes. The resulting Engel...
Projecting World Food Demand Using Alternative Demand Systems
Yu, Wusheng, Hertel, Thomas, Preckel, Paul, Eales, James
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models are increasingly being used to project world food markets in order to support forward-looking policy analysis. Such projections hinge critically on the...
Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System
Cranfield, John, Preckel, Paul, Hertel, Thomas
This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand...
Ludena, Carlos, Hertel, Thomas, Preckel, Paul, Foster, Kenneth, Nin Pratt, Alejandro
There is considerable interest in projections of future productivity growth in agriculture. Whether one is interested in the outlook for global commodity markets, future patterns of international...
Maintaining parameter invariance in seemingly unrelated regressions estimation
Jay Lillywhite, Paul Preckel, James Eales
Seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) is an important estimation methodology in demand analysis. While possessing qualities that make it attractive to applied demand analysts, the SUR estimation...
Trade Liberalization and the Structure of Poverty in Developing Countries
Hertel, Thomas, Maros Ivanic, Paul Preckel, John Cranfield
“Globalization increases poverty” is a common assertion made by critics of globalization. The proliferation of low-wage jobs and higher food prices are some of the arguments brought forward in...
ESTIMATING THE IMPORTANCE OF SHELF SPACE CONFIGURATION ON RETAILER'S PROFIT
Maud ROUCAN-KANE, Bobby MARTENS, Paul PRECKEL
Retail shelf space allocation remains a central issue in grocery retailing. A literature review produced many studies on retail shelf space allocation, but none which evaluated shelf space allocation...
Mitigating the Compliance Cost of a Phosphorus-Based Swine Manure Management Policy
Crystal Yap, Ken Foster, Paul Preckel, Otto Doering, Brian Richert
Regulatory changes by federal and state agencies portend a switch from nitrogen-based livestock manure disposal policies to phosphorus-based policies. This paper estimates the compliance costs of...
Disaggregate Productivity Growth in Livestock Production: A Directional Malmquist Index Approach
Ludena, Carlos, Hertel, Thomas, Preckel, Paul, Foster, Ken, Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Limited data on the allocation of inputs to different activities has limited agricultural economists' attempts to measure sub-sector productivity growth in agriculture. However, recent developments...
VERTICALLY ALIGNED VS. OPEN MARKET COORDINATION: DOMINANCE OR CO-EXISTENCE?
Preckel, Paul, Boehlje, Michael, Gray, Allan, Kim, Sounghun
Will a more tightly aligned system become the exclusive coordination or governance system in the pork industry? The analysis shows that the packer prefers to source hogs from both an aligned market...
Projecting World Food Demand: A Comparison of Alternative Demand Systems
Yu, Wusheng, Hertel, Thomas W., Preckel, Paul, Eales, James
Projections of world food demands hinge critically on the underlying functional form used to predict future demands. Simple functional forms can lead to unrealistic projections by failing to capture...
Seed Corn Tournament Contracts and Excess Nitrogen Application
Preckel, Paul, Baker, Timothy, Eide, Jessica
Crop Production/Industries,
ESTIMATING THE IMPORTANCE OF SHELF SPACE CONFIGURATION ON RETAILER'S PROFIT
Roucan-Kane, Maud, Martens, Bobby, Preckel, Paul
Retail shelf space allocation remains a central issue in grocery retailing. A literature review produced many studies on retail shelf space allocation, but none which evaluated shelf space allocation...
Yap, Crystal, Foster, Ken, Preckel, Paul, Doering, Otto
Federal and State regulatory agencies are considering switching from a nitrogen-based manure disposal policy to one that is phosphorus-based. This analysis estimates the compliance costs of this...
Mitigating the Compliance Cost of a Phosphorus-Based Swine Manure Management Policy
Yap, Crystal, Foster, Ken, Preckel, Paul, Doering, Otto, Richert, Brian
Regulatory changes by federal and state agencies portend a switch from nitrogen-based livestock manure disposal policies to phosphorus-based policies. This paper estimates the compliance costs of...
A load factor based mean-variance analysis for fuel diversification
Gotham, Douglas, Muthuraman, Kumar, Preckel, Paul, Rardin, Ronald, Ruangpattana, Suriya
Fuel diversification implies the selection of a mix of generation technologies for long-term electricity generation. The goal is to strike a good balance between reduced costs and reduced risk. The...
Spatial optimization and economies of scale for cellulose to ethanol facilities in Indiana
Perkis, David, Tyner, Wallace, Preckel, Paul, Brechbill, Sarah
Community/Rural/Urban Development, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Verma, Monika, Hertel, Thomas, Preckel, Paul
There is a long and distinguished literature involving demand analysis using international cross-section data. Such models are widely used for predicting national per capita consumption. However,...