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1998

Unterschultz, Jim, Gurung, Rajendra Kumar, Lerohl, Mel, Peng, Yanning

The formation of new industries is an important economic phenomenon, and a driving force that propels industrial development and heralds economic growth. It is important to understand the fundamentals of new industry development in order to understand how industries start and grow. This is the...

2001

Jeffrey, Scott, Grant, Heather-Anne R.

The World Trade Organization is currently formulating an agenda for a new round of global trade negotiations. Therefore, the likelihood of increased competition within Canada's supply managed dairy industry is probable. Consequently, there is a greater need for producers to be concerned with...

1997

Peng, Yanning, Veeman, Michele M.

The Canadian dairy industry faces a changing market environment as processors react to apparent shifts in consumers' preferences, consumers react to an altered mix of products on retail dairy shelves, and industry adjusts to potential pressures of competition and the challenge of new market...

1996

Jeffrey, Scott, Richards, Timothy J.

This study investigates the relationships between farm size, milk yield, cost of production, and technical efficiency in the Alberta dairy industry. Estimates of a stochastic production frontier are obtained with two alternative methods; an iterative \"average frontier\" (AF) procedure and a...

1998

Jeffrey, Scott, Richards, Timothy J.

Dairy production at the farm-level is undergoing a rapid transformation in preparation for more open competition in the future. However, the means by which dairy farms can best improve their economic performance is of some question. Using measures of allocative, technical, and overall efficiency...

1995

Richards, Timothy J., Jeffrey, Scott

This study investigates the use of hedonic pricing to identify the value of relevant production and type traits for dairy bulls in Alberta. A hedonic pricing model is estimated that models semen price as a function of individual production and longevity characteristics for a sample of Holstein...

1997

Fantino, Alberto A., Veeman, Terry S., Peng, Yanning

This project addresses several issues related to efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness in Alberta's agriculture and food sector, in both its primary agricultural sector and its secondary processing industry related to food and beverages. A major underlying theme of this work is that the...

1995

Veeman, Michele M., Dong, Xizo-yuan

Based on the hypothesis that tradeable marketing quotas may be analysed as an economic input in the production process of regulated firms, the standard capital asset pricing model is adapted to assess the impact of expectations of quota rents on Ontario fluid milk quota values. The analysis...

1996

Meilke, Karl, Chen, Kevin Z.

Using the fact that separate markets exist for used and unused quota, this paper derives a formula to compute the marginal cost of the milk production along a competitive dynamic optimization model. It is showed that, under a perfect competitive quota market, the difference between unused quota...