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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: profit maximization approach to modeling U.S. agricultural trade
  name:
    name part: Porras, Juan Jose
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: viii, 129 leaves ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Accurate understanding of domestic policy effects on
  abstract: agricultural exports to the country's economic health. This
  abstract: agricultural trade is essential because of the importance of
  abstract: agricultural trade. The GNP function approach provides a
  abstract: as an aggregate output. These findings suggest that the
  abstract: based trade models are estimated, and short and intermediate
  abstract: bound production and for imports and domestically produced
  abstract: cannot be rejected for the farm production sector and only
  abstract: consistent elasticity estimates for exports and domestic
  abstract: cost effective from a taxpayer's point of view.
  abstract: demand based on production theory. I use this approach to
  abstract: elasticities using the estimation results from the farm
  abstract: function) approach pioneered by Kohli (1978) to model
  abstract: important improvements over existing empirical trade models.
  abstract: in the analysis. In addition I evaluate the returns to
  abstract: indicate that the Market Promotion Program is very likely not
  abstract: inputs. Various substitution elasticities are also obtained
  abstract: model two individual agricultural trade sectors -- farm
  abstract: Not only does it address many of the shortcomings inherent in
  abstract: one assumption is not supported by the data for the food
  abstract: other empirical trade models, it also provides theoretically
  abstract: processing sector. Importantly, for both sectors I discover
  abstract: production and food processing sector models. Results
  abstract: production and food processing. The profit maximization
  abstract: profit maximization based approach offers a number of
  abstract: Promotion Program. This is accomplished by conducting a
  abstract: promotional programs such as the controversial Market
  abstract: run elasticities are computed. Hypothesis tests indicate
  abstract: sensitivity analysis of welfare effects of the program under
  abstract: sound theoretical framework for export supply and import
  abstract: that exports and domestic bound production cannot be treated
  abstract: that the underlying assumptions implicit in this approach
  abstract: thesis presents the results of a profit maximization (or GNP
  abstract: various combinations of export demand and advertising
  note: by Juan Jose Porras.
  note: "Major subject: Agricultural Economics".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1995.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major agricultural economics
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1995-THESIS-P665
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