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  title info:
    title: Essays on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway and U.S. grain market
  name:
    name part: Yu, Tun-Hsiang
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bessler, David A.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Fuller, Stephen (Stephen W.)
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: This dissertation examines several issues regarding the congestion on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway. Chapter II identifies and measures the impact of lock congestion on grain barge rates on these waterways. Results indicate grain barge rates on both rivers are not affected by lagged lock congestion. In present time, however, lock congestion in the lower reaches of the upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers are found to increase barge rates that link the north central United States to the lower Mississippi Gulf port area. The findings suggest the impact of lock congestion on grain barge rates is moderate. Chapter III explores the interaction between grain prices in export and domestic markets and transportation rates linking these markets over time. Three model frameworks were evaluated and some consistent results are observed. In general, shocks in transportation rates (barge, rail, and ocean) explain a great proportion of the variation in corn and soybean market prices in the long run, suggesting the importance of transportation in grain price determination. The volatile ocean freight rates are the most important transportation rates contributing to the variation in grain prices, while shocks in barge rates on the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway generally explain less than 15 percent of the variation in grain prices. The dynamic interrelationships among the six evaluated transportation rates are also found. In addition, the north central corn markets likely have the most influence over other markets while soybean export price dominates the soybean market in the long run. Chapter IV estimates the structural demand for grain barge transportation on both the upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. Results suggest foreign grain demand is the most influential force affecting grain barge demand on both rivers. Also, results indicate an inelastic demand for grain barge transportation on the Upper Mississippi in the short run; demand is pric…
  note: by Tun-Hsiang Yu.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Economics"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Sep. 21, 2005.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2005.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation).
  subject:
    topic: Major agricultural economics
  subject:
    topic: Cointegration
  subject:
    topic: Transportation Rates
  subject:
    topic: Lock Delay
  subject:
    topic: Directed Acyclic Graphs
  subject:
    topic: Inland Waterways
  subject:
    topic: Grain Barge Demand
  subject:
    topic: Vector Autoregression
  subject:
    topic: Grain Prices
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2278
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 070126
    record change date: 20151104131856.0
    record identifier: in00002208355