Staff Papers: 1980-1989
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1989
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 89-01 | Using Strategic Planning to Formulate Future Business Opportunities | White |
| 89-17 | An Analysis of Change in Milk Production Per Cow by State, 1950-87 | Weersink, Tauer |
| 89-22 | The Distributional Impacts of Technical Change on the U.S. Dairy Sector | Weersink, Tauer |
| 89-23 | Input Aggregation and Firm Efficiency | Thomas, Tauer |
1988
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 88-01 | The U.S. Honey Industry: An Economic Analysis | Willett |
| 88-02 | An Overview of the 1987 Farm Management and Energy Survey | Kelleher, Bills |
| 88-03 | The Impact of the Dairy Termination Program on Land Use in New York | Simler, Bills, Kaiser |
| 88-04 | What Needs to be Done to Remain Competitive in Milk Production? | Stanton |
| 88-05 | Undergraduate Education in Agricultural Economics at Cornell University, Challenges and Lessons | McLaughlin |
| 88-06 | The Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and 1987 New York Tax Laws on Leasing of Farm Assets | Casler |
| 88-07 | Concerning the Final Report of the National Commission on Dairy Policy: Statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry | Novakovic |
| 88-08 | Classification and Integration of Sector Accounts in Agriculture | Stanton |
| 88-09 | An Analysis of the Effects of Field Operations Management on New York Dairy Farms | Johnson, Milligan |
| 88-10 | Concerning the Final Report of the National Commission on Dairy Policy: Statement to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry | Novakovic |
| 88-11 | Rail Regulatory Reform and Changing Interregional Competitiveness in the Feed Grain Industry | Schmeltz, Lee |
| 88-12 | Food, Population, and Employment: The Malthusian Prospect Two Centuries Later | Poleman |
| 88-13 | Marketing – Agriculture’s New Frontier | Figueroa |
| 88-14 | Quota Rents and Subsidies: The Case of U.S. Cheese Import Quotas | Hornig, Boisvert, Blandford |
| 88-15 | Information for Evaluating Land Retention Programs: The Agricultural District Approach | Bills, Boisvert |
| 88-16 | Farmland Use in an Urban Environment: Status, Trends and Policy Issues | Bills |
| 88-17 | Approaches to Defining and Classifying Farms | Stanton, Bills |
| 88-18 | Some Aspects of Italian Wine Economics, An Overview of the 1980’s | Segré |
| 88-19 | Developing A Spatially Referenced Soil Quality Database for Land Use Research | Kelleher, Bills |
| 88-20 | Robert Smock and the Diffusion of Controlled Atmosphere Technology in the U.S. Apple Industry, 1940-1960 | Love |
| 88-21 | A Bioeconomic Model of Pollution and Resource Management | Conrad |
| 88-22 | Economics and the Risk from Low Level Radioactive Waste | Conrad |
| 88-23 | Italian Wine in the U.S. Market, A Case Study of Cantine Riunite | Segré, White |
| 88-24 | Utilizing a Geographic Information System to Develop an Agricultural Land Use Database | Kelleher, Bills |
1987
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 87-01 | The Impact of the Introduction of a Futures Market on the Supply of Lumber | Meyer, Tomek |
| 87-02 | Electronic Information – The Public/Private Sector Interface | Streeter |
| 87-03 | The National School Lunch Program: Effects of Recent Legislation on Participation in New York State | Zucchino, Ranney |
| 87-04 | Economic Implications of Reactor Decommissioning for Spent Fuel Disposal | Chapman |
| 87-05 | Competitiveness of Northeast Milk Producers in the National Market | Stanton |
| 87-06 | Suggested Strategies for Developing Agriculture in Bolivia | Conklin |
| 87-07 | The Importance of Non-Farm Income on Farm Family Income Inequality in New York | Boisvert, Ranney |
| 87-08 | Resource Depletion, Agricultural Research, and Development | Chapman, Barker |
| 87-09 | Effects of Futures and Options Trading on Farm Incomes | Tomek |
| 87-10 | A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on Taxes Paid by Dairy Farmers | Casler |
| 87-11 | Some Thoughts on a Bailout of the Farm Credit System | LaDue |
| 87-12 | A Note on Measuring Technical Efficiency | Tauer |
| 87-13 | Transfrontier Pollution: Cooperative and Noncooperative Solutions | Conrad, Scott |
| 87-14 | Bioeconomics and the Bowhead Whale | Conrad |
| 87-15 | Key Policy Issues in the Farm Use of Chemicals: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here? | Allee |
| 87-16 | Can We Have Both Successful Farmers and Clean Groundwater on Long Island? | Baker |
| 87-17 | The Numerical Analysis of Monopolistically Competitive Markets: The Case of A New York Fresh Apple Packer | Starbird, Milligan |
| 87-18 | Economic Changes from the Use of Biotechnology in Production Agriculture | Tauer |
| 87-19 | An Exploratory Modeling of the Decision Process of New Product Selection by Supermarket Buyers | McLaughlin, Rao |
| 87-20 | Multifactor Productivity Growth in U.S. Food Manufacturing | Lee, Maier, Lynch |
| 87-21 | An Empirical Analysis of Congressional Voting on Farm Bill Legislation | Lee, Tkachyk |
| 87-22 | Cash Versus Accrual Accounting Information for Dairy Farm Management | Lazarus |
| 87-23 | Profitability of Mergers in Food Manufacturing | Rozelle |
| 87-24 | Economics, Mathematical Models, and Environmental Policy | Conrad |
| 87-25 | The Economic Significance of Pollution Control and Worker Safety Costs for World Copper Trade | Chapman |
| 87-26 | Becoming an Effective Money Manager – Seven Steps to Successful Financial Management | White |
1986
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 86-01 | Resource Development and Environmental Risk | Conrad |
| 86-02 | Patent and Technology Transfer Issues in Biotechnology | Magrath |
| 86-03 | Options for Farm Families Facing Critical Decisions | Brake, Shephard |
| 86-04 | The Importance of Household Size in Explaining Low-Fat and Whole Milk Expenditures in the U.S. | Laraki, Ranney |
| 86-05 | Modeling the Spatial Organization of the Northeast Dairy Industry | Novakovic, Pratt |
| 86-06 | The Supply of Commercial Storage for American Cheese | Pratt, Novakovic, Alexander |
| 86-07 | Why New York Grape Growers Need to Increase Yields | White |
| 86-08 | A Model to Explain Participation in New York’s Agricultural Districts and Use-Value Assessment Program | Boisvert, Bills |
| 86-09 | A Monte Carlo Experiment Demonstrating Specification Bias in Translog Cost Systems | Driscoll, Boisvert |
| 86-10 | Risk Preference and Long-Run Performance of the Dairy Farm | Tauer |
| 86-11 | Working on Fisher’s Problem with Computer Algebra | Chapman |
| 86-12 | Local Finance and Policy for Groundwater Protection | Allee |
| 86-13 | An Appraisal of Composite Forecasting Methods | Park, Tomek |
| 86-14 | Product Allocation of Generic Advertising Funds: A Sales Maximization Approach With An Application to Milk and Cheese in New York City | Kinnucan |
| 86-15 | New York Milk Supply with Bovine Growth Hormone | Magrath, Tauer |
| 86-16 | An Economic Analysis of the Star Accelerated Lambing System | Snyder, Milligan |
| 86-17 | A Note on the Optimal Hedge Ratio: A Revisit | Liu, Roe |
| 86-18 | Support For Local Governments in Groundwater Protection | Allee |
| 86-19 | A Perspective on the Financial Situation in Agriculture | Brake |
| 86-20 | Measuring Productivity Changes in U.S. Food Manufacturing, 1959-1082 | Lee |
| 86-21 | Mandatory Supply Management Programs in Canada and Europe | Kaiser |
| 86-22 | This staff paper is missing or was never published | |
| 86-23 | The Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act: An Economic Assessment of the First 10 Years | Conrad |
| 86-24 | Modeling the Linkage Between Domestic and International Markets | Blandford |
| 86-25 | River Basin Management | Allee |
| 86-26 | Adjustments in the Dairy Sector: The 1986 to 1988 Economic Outlook | Novakovic |
| 86-27 | Comparative Statements on Production Costs and Competitiveness in Agricultural Commodities | Stanton |
| 86-28 | Experimental Price Variability and Consumer Response: Tracking Potato Sales With Scanners | McLaughlin, Lesser |
| 86-29 | A Forecast for the Grocery Industry in the 1990s | McLaughlin, Hawkes |
| 86-30 | Agricultural Districts and Use-Value Assessment: The New York Experience in Farmland Retention | Bills, Boisvert |
| 86-31 | Our Interdependent World Economy and Agricultural Trade | Blandford |
1985
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 85-01 | Evolution and Change in New York Agriculture | Stanton |
| 85-02 | Sample Partitioning Bias in Estimating the Effects of the Food Stamp Program | Ranney |
| 85-03 | Structural Changes and the Rural Society, Town of Dryden and Tompkins County, New York, 1925-1980 | Bratton |
| 85-04 | An Analysis of Alternative Levels of Milk Support Prices Through 1990 | Novakovic |
| 85-05 | The Role of Alternative Risk Programming Models in Empirical Research | Boisvert |
| 85-06 | Some Issues Concerning Dairy Policy in 1985 | Novakovic |
| 85-07 | Financial and Economic Analysis of Water Projects | Allee |
| 85-08 | The 1985 Farm Bill: The Political Process and Some Possible Outcomes | Robinson |
| 85-09 | The Public Power Act of 1985 | Chapman |
| 85-10 | Twenty Years of Structure, Cost and Performance Changes in U.S. Food Chains | McLaughlin, Hawkes |
| 85-11 | Risk Preferences Necessary to Choose Life Insurance Funding of Buy-Sell Arrangements | Tauer |
| 85-12 | Successful Dairy Farm Debt Management Strategies | Kauffman, Tauer |
| 85-13 | Criteria for and Evaluation of Selected On-Farm Computer Accounting Software | Milligan, Kent, Knoblauch |
| 85-14 | Analysis of Automated Grain Feeding Systems on Dairy Farms in New York State | Kelleher, Milligan |
| 85-15 | The Impact of Bovine Growth Hormone on the New York Dairy Sector: An Example Using Sector Linear Programming | Tauer |
| 85-16 | The Economic Implications of Bovine Growth Hormone on Dairy Farm Profitability | Milligan, Kalter |
| 85-17 | Alternative Approaches to Market Share Analysis: An Application to the International Poultry Market | Durham, Lee |
| 85-18 | Cropland Lease Arrangements and Soil Erosion in the U.S. | Bills |
| 85-19 | Local Government and Groundwater Quality Management | Allee, Powell |
| 85-20 | Alternative Incentives to Encourage Desirable Irrigation Projects Under the Small Reclamation Projects Act Loan Program | Allee |
| 85-21 | Limits on Price Analysis | Tomek |
| 85-22 | The Economic Impact of bGH on the New York State Dairy Sector: Comparative Static Results | Magrath, Tauer |
| 85-23 | Projecting Adoption Rates: Application of an Ex Ante Procedure to Biotechnology Projects | Lesser, Magrath, Kalter |
| 85-24 | Global Pollution and International Trade | Chapman |
| 85-25 | International Agriculture Trade From A Common Market Perspective | Blandford |
| 85-26 | Factors Affecting the Location of the U.S. Biotechnology Industry | Magrath |
| 85-27 | Five Myths About Financing Dairy Farm Businesses | LaDue |
| 85-28 | Dairy Management Practices and New York Dairy Farm Incomes 1984 | Bratton, Williams |
| 85-29 | This staff paper is missing or was never published | |
| 85-30 | On the Evaluation of Government Programs to Reduce Environmental Risk | Conrad |
| 85-31 | The Dynamics of an Open Access Fishery | Bjorndal, Conrad |
| 85-32 | An Analysis of the Impact of President Reagan’s Tax Proposals on Taxes Paid by Dairy Farmers | Casler |
| 85-33 | Analysis of Leading Alternative Dairy Price Support Program Proposals | Novakovic |
| 85-34 | Comparison of Farm Businesses of Registered and Grade Herds, New York, 1984 | Bratton, Williams |
| 85-35 | New York Dairy Industry Overview | Knoblauch, Putnam |
1984
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 84-12 | The Structure of Tax Incentives for Regulated Electric Utilities | Chapman |
| 84-15 | An Empirical Allocation of Dairy Farm Partnership Income to Capital, Labor, and Management | Tauer |
| 84-22 | Regional Journal Contributions of Recent Graduates | Tauer, Tauer |
| 84-104 | The Philippine Rice Program-Lessons for Agricultural Development | Barker |
1983
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 83-01 | Decomposing the Induced Income Changes in Input-Output Models | Boisvert |
| 83-02 | Gen3-A Simulation Model for Resource Policy Evaluation | Tyner, Kalter, Baker, Broderick |
| 83-03 | Risk, Information and the Development of Marine Resources | Conrad |
| 83-04 | The Financial Model in the Advanced Utility Simulation Model | Cole, Chapman |
| 83-05 | The Solid Standards Issue | Boynton |
| 83-06 | Reflections on Criteria and Strategies for Choosing Among Dairy Price Support Proposals | Novakovic |
| 83-07 | Some Economic Issues and Trends in Production and Export Marketing of Vegetables in Turkey | Bulbul, Unsal, Forker |
| 83-08 | Bioeconomics and the Harvest of Two Competing Specie | Conrad, Castro |
| 83-09 | The Efficiency of the Farmer at Various Ages | Tauer |
| 83-10 | Economic Viability of Investing in Alternative Part-Time Cow-Calf Farms in the Northeastern United States | Milligan, Nowak, Knoblauch, Fox |
| 83-11 | Alternative Solutions to the Dairy Problem and the Role of the Agricultural Economist in Policy Formation and Analysis | Novakovic |
| 83-12 | Decision Analysis As A Tool for Selecting Evaluation Schemes | Alley, Conrad |
| 83-13 | Estimating Demand Irreversibility Under Large Price Changes Using Experimental Data | Lesser, Roller |
| 83-14 | Incidence of Rivalry in Pesticide Advertising | Boynton, Schiferl |
| 83-15 | Wages, Productivity, and Prices: Defining the Structure of Food Price Inflation | Lee |
| 83-16 | Is Crop Rotation Feasible? A Linear Programming Model of Scallion Farms in the Central Highlands of Ecuador | Warner |
| 83-17 | The Glenn Tax in New York | Younger |
| 83-18 | An Application of Ordinary and General Stochastic Dominance Criteria in Ordering Risky Marketing Strategies for Corn Producers | Greenhall |
| 83-19 | The Outlook for Fruit in the Northeast, 1983-84 | White |
| 83-20 | Farm Credit and Interest Rate Situation and Outlook | Brake |
| 83-21 | Acid Rain, Nuclear Power, and Regulatory Economics | Chapman |
| 83-22 | Geographic Information Systems in Policy Research: Examples from an Evolving System | Heimlich, Bills, Ogg |
| 83-23 | Toward the Next Generation of Dairy Policy | Novakovic, Boynton |
| 83-24 | Food Stamp Program Participation and Cash Equivalent Benefits | Ranney |
| 83-25 | Maximizing the Use of the Farm Produced Forages | Milligan |
| 83-26 | A Detailed Summary of the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (a.k.a. The Compromise Bill) | Novakovic |
| 83-27 | A Social Tariff: Global Wage and Pollution Standards | Chapman |
1982
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 82-01 | The Impact of Research and Education on New York Farmers and Consumers: From the Perspective of the Social Sciences | Stanton |
| 82-02 | Incentive Plans for Use on Dairy Farms | Bratton |
| 82-03 | An Overview of Dairy Policy Options | Novakovic |
| 82-04 | The Effectiveness of Generic Versus Brand Advertising For Manufactured Milk Products – The Case of Yogurt | Hall, Folk |
| 82-05 | Demographic Versus Media Advertising Effects on Milk Demand: The Case of the New York City Market | Kinnucan |
| 82-06 | An Analysis of the Impact of Deregulating the Pricing of Reconstituted Milk Under Federal Milk Marketing Orders | Novakovic, Aplin |
| 82-07 | Procedures for Vehicle Routing Problems With An Application to Milk Assembly in New York | Sehulster, Pratt, Novakovic |
| 82-08 | Price Formation – Theory and Practice | Forker |
| 82-09 | The Urban/Rural Interface and the Preservation of Farming | Conklin |
| 82-10 | The Involvement of Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Rural Land Use Policy | Conklin |
| 82-11 | Utilization of the Resource Base New York’s Rural Areas in Transition | Conklin |
| 82-12 | It is Possible to Preserve Farming | Conklin |
| 82-13 | A Demand Analysis of Bob Calves for Veal and Feeder Calf Uses in the Northeast | Lesser, Bindlish |
| 82-14 | Effects of Changes in Crop Reports and Market News on the Northeast | Lesser |
| 82-15 | Fishery Management: The Case of Tuna in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic | Adu-Asamoah, Conrad |
| 82-16 | Assessing the Regional Economic Impact of New Biomass Energy Development | Batista, Boisvert, Kalter |
| 82-17 | Farm Numbers and Their Implications for Economic Analysis | Stanton |
| 82-18 | Cyclical Aspects of Adjustment to Corn Price Instability | Offutt |
| 82-19 | A Programming Approach to Financing Public Education | Colburn, Boisvert |
| 82-20 | Economics of Size in Dairy Farm Adjustment to Water Quality Constraints | Heimlich |
| 82-21 | The Pricing of Publicly Controlled Natural Resources: A General Equilibrium Approach | Hertel |
| 82-22 | This staff paper is missing or was never published | |
| 82-23 | Structural Linkages Between Agriculture and the Rest of the Economy: An Evaluation of Sectoral and Macroeconomic Models | Vellituni |
| 82-24 | The European Economic Community’s Vegetable Oil Tax Proposal: A Case Study of Trade Conflict | Taylor |
| 82-25 | An Empirical Analysis of Dairy Farm Reinvestment Versus Tax-Deferred Plans for Retirement Income | Tauer |
| 82-26 | Sources and Control of Agricultural Groundwater Contamination Otter Creek-Dry Creek, Cortland County, NY | Heimlich |
| 82-27 | Stochastic Simulation of Buffer-Stock Stabilization Policies in the World Cocoa Market | Alba, Brambila, Spathis, Vellutini |
| 82-28 | Implications of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 for the Dairy Industry with Special Reference to the Cheese Subsector | Novakovic |
| 82-29 | Lectures on Bioeconomics and the Management of Renewable Resources | Conrad |
| 82-30 | Summary of Agricultural Water Management Program Accomplishments, 1976-1982 | Geohring |
| 82-31 | Evaluating Food Warehouse Efficiency Using Residual Analysis | Roller, Lesser |
| 82-32 | Is Leasing a Viable Alternative | LaDue |
| 82-33 | World Wheat Price Variability: Changes in it’s Magnitude and Source | Blandford, Schwartz |
1981
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 81-01 | Food Price Reporting” Evaluation and Opportunities for Consumers | Lesser |
| 81-02 | Vertical Exchange Relationships and {Performance in the Great Lakes Yellow Perch Industry | Lesser |
| 81-03 | Management of a Multiple Cohort Fishery: The Hard Clam in Great South Bay | Conrad |
| 81-04 | Forest Management and Nontimber Attributes: A Graphical Approach | Conrad |
| 81-05 | The Economic of Small Scale Alcohol Production | Casler |
| 81-06 | Alcohol Fuels: Some Agricultural and Energy Issues | Casler |
| 81-07 | Milk Prices- Where Are We Headed? | Novakovic |
| 81-08 | Possibilities for Keeping Farm Land in Farming in New York | Conklin |
| 81-09 | Food, Population, and Employment: The Economic and Political Context of World Hunger | Poleman |
| 81-10 | The Upper Delaware-An Experiment in Partnership Management | Allee |
| 81-11 | Food Security and the International Wheat Agreements | Callear, Blandford |
| 81-12 | Sequential Sampling for Pest Management | Fohner |
| 81-13 | Impact of New Procedures for Estimating Agricultural Use Values in New York | Bills, Boisvert |
| 81-14 | Energy and Employment Implications of Foreign Trade Opportunities in the Northeast | Alba, Blandford, Boisvert |
| 81-15 | Marketing Alternatives for Northeastern Dairy Beef and Feeder Calves | Lesser |
| 81-16 | Profitability of Feeding Dairy Steers to Feeder and Slaughter Weight on Northeast Dairy Farms | Milligan, Nowak, Knoblauch |
| 81-17 | Feeding and Management Strategies for Producing Beef from Holstein Steers on Northeast Dairy Farms | Fox, Nowak |
| 81-18 | Dairy Promotion Research at Cornell: What Have We Learned? | Kinnucan |
| 81-19 | An Evaluation of Alternative Indicators of Commodity Instability | Offutt, Blandford |
| 81-20 | The Impact of Structural Change on Potential Instability in the World Wheat Market | Schwartz, Blandford |
| 81-21 | Estimating the Effect of Government Programs on the Supply of Wheat in the United States | Neenan, Blandford |
| 81-22 | Predicting the Direct Benefits of a Food Price Reporting or Preference Changing Program | Lesser, Bryant |
| 81-23 | The Outlook For Fruit in the Northeast | White |
| 81-24 | Farm Credit and Interest Rate Situation and Outlook | Brake |
| 81-25 | Explaining Productivity Differences in Grocery Warehouses | Lesser, Roller |
| 81-26 | The 1981 Tax Act and the Economics of Coal and Nuclear Power | Chapman |
| 81-27 | The Feasibility of Ethanol Production From Cheese Whey and Fruit Pomace in New York State | Gabler, Kalter, Boisvert, Walker, Pellerin, Rao, Hang |
| 81-28 | Affiliated Shareholding, Management, and Debt in the Petroleum Industry: Efficiency or Monopoly Objectives? | Chapman |
| 81-29 | Financial Reorganization of the Farm Business (Short of Bankruptcy) | Brake |
| 81-30 | Employment Implications of Exporting Processed U.S. Agricultural Products | Blandford, Boisvert |
1980
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 80-05 | The Optimal Separation of Farm Taxable Income Between Two Consecutive Tax Years | Tauer |