scholarly journals Potential Impacts of Foodborne Illness Incidences on Market Movements and Prices of Fresh Produce in the U.S.

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco A. Palma ◽  
Luis A. Ribera ◽  
David Bessler ◽  
Mechel Paggi ◽  
Ronald D. Knutson
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Vector Autoregression ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Var Model ◽  
June July ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The U.S

This study investigates the potential impacts of food safety outbreaks on domestic shipments, imports, and prices of the produce industry. Three case studies were analyzed to assess these potential impacts: the cantaloupe outbreak of March–April 2008, the spinach outbreak of September 2006, and the tomato outbreak of June–July 2008. Data-determined historical decompositions were conducted to provide a weekly picture of domestic shipment, import, and price fluctuation transmissions. The empirical analysis based on a vector autoregression (VAR) model showed differences in the results depending on the source of the outbreak (domestic vs. imported).

Where Do Americans Live Abroad?

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 788-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernt Bratsberg ◽  
Dek Terrell
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The U.S

This article examines the factors that influence emigration of U.S. citizens. Data from a 1993 survey administered by the U.S. Department of State as part of an evacuation requirements report form the basis for the empirical analysis. The empirical analysis explains the distribution of U.S. citizens residing in 65 foreign countries in terms of economic and political characteristics of the foreign states. The study finds that U.S. citizens are more likely to reside in rich and close countries than in distant and poor countries and that the foreign country's ties to the U.S. immigrant population and the use of the English language are important determinants of where Americans settle abroad. Political conditions and U.S. military presence also influence the choice of foreign residence.

The Contribution of University Business Incubators to New Knowledge-Based Ventures

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa Grimaldi ◽  
Alessandro Grandi
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This paper examines the role of university business incubators (UBIs) in supporting the creation of new knowledge-based ventures. UBIs are described as effective mechanisms for overcoming weaknesses of the more traditional public incubating institutions. They offer firms a range of university-related benefits, such as access to laboratories and equipment, to scientific and technological knowledge and to networks of key contacts, and the reputation that accrues from affiliation with a university. The empirical analysis is based on the Turin Polytechnic Incubator (TPI) and on case studies of six academic spin-offs hosted at TPI. While TPI does not effectively resolve such problems as inadequate access to funding capital and the lack of management and financial skills in its tenant companies, the networking capacity of incubating programmes is seen as a key characteristic that may help new knowledge-based ventures to overcome such difficulties.

scholarly journals Regional Wholesale Price Relationships in the Presence of Counter-Seasonal Imports

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kellie Curry Raper ◽  
Suzanne Thornsbury ◽  
Cristobal Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Vector Autoregression ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Wholesale Price ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Wholesale Market ◽  
Spatial Price ◽  
Price Relationships ◽  
The U.S

Counter-seasonal imports of fresh produce facilitate year-round availability in the U.S. and may impact the seasonal structure of market price relationships. Vector autoregression analysis is used to determine the nature and extent of spatial price relationships among four geographically distinct regions in the U.S. fresh peach wholesale market. We evaluate differences in regional spatial price relationships and find statistical evidence that price relationships among regions are different in periods dominated by regional domestic supplies imports compared with periods when counter-seasonal imports dominate the market.

scholarly journals Small Farm Food Safety, Fresh Produce: Part 2 - The Buck Stops Here

EDIS ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Lapinski ◽  
Amy Simonne ◽  
Marilyn E. Swisher
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Small Farm ◽  
Food Handling ◽  
Handling Practices ◽  
Food Handling Practices

FCS8843, a 6-page factsheet by Brian Lapinski, Amy Simonne, and M.E. Swisher, presents four different scenarios involving cases of foodborne illness causing unsafe food handling practices and provides discussion questions and analysis. Published by the UF Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, October 2007. FCS8843/FY967: Small Farm Food Safety, Fresh Produce—Part 2: The Buck Stops Here (ufl.edu) Ask IFAS: Small Farm Food Safety series (ufl.edu)

scholarly journals Case Studies in Foodborne Illness in Florida from Fresh Produce

HortScience ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta M. Hammond ◽  
Dean Bodager ◽  
Kathleen V. Ward ◽  
Alan Rowan
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
Foodborne Illness

Research on the U.S. Coal Cupply-Demand Network

2013 ◽  
Vol 734-737 ◽  
pp. 1697-1701
Author(s):  
Pei Pei Zhang ◽  
Tian Hua Shan ◽  
Cui Cui Fang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Coal Supply ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Good Agreement

The production’s SPL distribution of the U.S. coal supply enterprises from 1983 to 2011 was obtained from the empirical analysis. And the nameplate capacity’s SPL distribution of the U.S. existing electric generating units in 2009 was obtained. Based on a universal bipartite model of the energy supply-demand network, the numerical results of the U.S. coal supply-demand network are obtained, which are in good agreement with the empirical results.

The Institutionalization of Religious Organizations in Muslim-Majority Countries: Statistical Evidence

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-140
Author(s):  
Vineeta Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Statistical Evidence ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
Large N ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This chapter begins the empirical analysis in this book. It first presents the logic and the details of the research design adopted to test the two hypotheses and their associated corollaries. The research design combines large-N analysis of a comprehensive set of 49 Muslim-majority countries from 1970 to 2016 with in-depth case studies of two insightful cases—Turkey and Pakistan. The cases are selected to leverage the advantages of temporal variation in all the theoretically important factors within each country using a within-subjects design. The rest of the chapter introduces a new measure of religious organizations’ socioeconomic institutionalization and the sample used in the analysis. It then presents the results from systematic tests of Hypothesis 1 and its corollaries, explaining when religious organizations experience an increase in their institutionalization. The tests provide strong and robust support for the first part of the argument.

Hysteresis in Foreign Trade – A New Empirical Approach / Hysterese im Außenhandel – Ein neuer empirischer Ansatz

1998 ◽  
Vol 217 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Dannenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Functional Form ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Linear Parameter ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Disaggregate Data ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The U.S

SummaryThis paper expands the empirical analysis of hysteresis in trade in two directions. First, it uses disaggregate data for exports from Germany to the U.S. to minimise aggregation problems. Second, it introduces a new non-linear model to test for the non-linear parameter. The model is flexible in the functional form of hysteresis and it allows for testing weak vs. strong hysteresis and perfect hysteresis vs. strong persistence. The result shows that previous tests made too restrictive assumptions and by correcting them, hysteresis can be found in most of the sectors. Finally, it compares the results with proxies for possible explanations of hysteresis.

scholarly journals Post-Great-Recession Human Migration Patterns in the U.S.: The Overlooked Impacts of Entrepreneurial Activity and Personal Freedom

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Richard J. Cebula
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Personal Freedom ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Recession Period

Effectively no scholarly research has been published in peer-reviewed journals on the potential migration impacts of environments that are more conducive to entrepreneurship. Similarly, the potential migration impact of personal freedom also is essentially ignored in the literature. This study seeks to add to the literature by investigating the impacts of both entrepreneurial activity and personal freedom on state in-migration patterns. Using a panel dataset for the post-Great Recession period 2010-2017, the empirical analysis reveals that all three of the Kauffman indices of entrepreneurial activity are found to exercise a positive and statistically significant impact on both net in-migration and gross in-migration. In addition, the index of overall personal freedom is found to exercise a positive and statistically significant impact on both of these in-migration measures. Thus, it appears that there may be good reason for future migration studies to take such variables into account when seeking to explain, understand, and predict migration patterns in the U.S..

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