Olga Isengildina-Massa

TL;DR: A contingent valuation framework is used to evaluate South Carolina consumers' willingness to pay for the "locally grown" characteristic in produce and animal products and identify the sociodemographic characteristics affecting consumer preferences for this characteristic.

TL;DR: This article examined the impact of situation and outlook information from World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) in corn and soybean futures markets over the period 1985 to 2006, and found that WASDE reports containing National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) crop production estimates and other domestic and international situation-and outlook information have the largest impact; causing return variance on report sessions to be 7.38 times greater than normal return variance in corn futures and 6.87 times higher than normal returning variance in soybeans.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the impact of U.S. Department of Agriculture World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) reports on implied volatility in corn and soybean markets over 1985 to 2002.

TL;DR: The authors found that producers do not use all available combinations of risk management tools and that the influence of the determinants of producer's risk management decisions are not necessarily the same across risk management strategies within and across bracketing levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework for assessing the potential economic impact of a regional promotion campaign combining contingent valuation methods with a partial displacement equilibrium model, which was applied to the evaluation of the potentially economic impact.