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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...

2012

Lambert, Brett

This publication was specially produced for the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology's 50th Anniversary Celebration of Scholarship and Service, May 25-26, 2012. Using archival research, the early history of the Department is captured here, from its controversial beginnings...

1993

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Condon, Barbara

Forests supply a diverse combination of market and nonmarket goods creating a complex management problem for the utilization of the forest resource. The values associated with conventional forest products, such as lumber and pulp and paper, pass directly through the market system. On the other...

2023-08-01

Stephen Gati

This study investigates the connection between Alberta, Canada's gasoline price and the price of barley. Understanding the effects of gasoline price changes is essential given the growing worries about food prices, particularly for commodities like barley. The study aims to clarify this...

1994

Schilizzi, Steven, Apedaile, L. Peter, Freedman, H.I., Solomonovich, M.

Sustaining agricultural systems requires the ability to predict approaching extinction. Thus a suitable model needs to generate predictability as an intrinsic attribute. Such a model should provide several features for managers. It should incorporate learning about the minimum sustainable...

1998

Veeman, Terry S., Veeman, Michele M., Adilu, Shiferaw

This study evaluates the impacts of the Uruguay Round Agreement (URA) on Canadian agriculture in a single-country general equilibrium framework. For this purpose a computable general equilibrium model of the Canadian economy that involves six agricultural and two non-agricultural sectors was...

1994

Adamowicz, Wiktor, Hatton MacDonald, Darla, Luckert, Martin K., Just, Lesley, Murray, Eloise C., Phillips, William E., Beckley, Thomas M.

The purpose of this paper is to present an interdisciplinary model and a process for considering the applicability of non-market valuation techniques to Aboriginal Peoples. These techniques are widely used in non-Aboriginal contexts as methods of providing information about preferences over...

2015-01-01

Parkins, John R.

In the 1970s, Goldschmidt found that industrialization of swine production in Iowa resulted in declining social and economic returns to neighbouring farming communities. This finding is confirmed by several more recent studies in the United States, indicating that regions dominated by family...

2018-01-01

Kecinski, Maik

This study introduces a two-period sequential choice model, which is tested in controlled laboratory experiments. Players have a one time opportunity to invest positive relative profits to lower marginal cost and gain competitive advantage. Theory predicts one sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium in...

2005

Han, Alice, Cash, Sean B., Goddard, Ellen, Cortus, Brett, Lerohl, Mel, Lomeli, Jose

A recent letter to the editor in The Edmonton Journal ended with the question, \"How many more needless death?\" [\"More Wheat, Less Rye,\" Edmonton Journal, p. A13 (17 January 2005)] The letter was not addressing the violence in Darfur, distribution of pharmaceuticals, or AIDS -- it was a...