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Hopkins, Jane Chadwick (1983). "An Analysis of the Impact of
Alternative Import Management Policies for Shrimp." Thesis,
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University,
December, 117 pp.
A five equation econometric model was specified and estimated using
1955-1980 data to analyze restrictive import policies. Benefits of such
measures were found to be tenuous in simulations with benefits dissipated
through new entrants. While all of the policies led to only modest
improvements in the price level, the variability in prices was reduced. The
benefits from restricting imports may not be as readily apparent as has been
suggested by some advocates.
Hornbaker, Robert H., Bruce L. Dixon, and Steven T. Sonka (1989).
"Estimating Production Activity Costs for Multioutput Firms with a
Random Coefficient Regression Model." American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 71(1): 167-177.
A random coefficient regression model provides an approach for
estimating the mean variable costs of specific enterprise production
activities for each output over a population of multioutput firms. The model
specifically acknowledges that these farm level costs vary from farm to farm.
In addition, best linear unbiased predictions can be estimated for each
activity for an individual farm. The mean estimates are quite useful for ex
post cost analysis, thereby providing per unit cost estimates for farmers,
governmental agencies, and researchers. The best linear unbiased predictions
can be used by individual farmers for planning yearly operations, applying for
operating loans, and analyzing marketing strategies.
Hotelling, Harold (1931). "The Economics of Exhaustible Resources."
Journal of Political Economy, 39(2):137-175.
The comparative static theory of economics does not lend itself to an
analysis of natural resources that are nonrenewable or are renewable at slow
rates (forests, oil, etc.). A dynamic approach to solving resource allocation
over time is presented using the calculus of variations.
Houde, Edward D. (1993). Results of the 1993 Species Working Group
Workshop. Report of the Swordfish Working Group ICCAT Advisory
Committee Meeting.
Recommendations of the working group to the Advisory Committee on stock
identification and structure, age and growth, minimum size regulations,
catches and CPUE, and the need for earlier assessments.
Houston, Jack E. and Amelia E. Nieto (1988). "Regional Shrimp Market
Responses to Domestic Landings and Imports." Journal of Food
Distribution Research, Feb:99-107.
U.S. shrimp landings are divided into four geographic regional markets
and may be further subdivided into species and size characteristics.
Seemingly unrelated regressions are used to analyze regional price responses
of variable annual landings of shrimp. The contemporaneous correlation of
competing market supplies and demands accounted for an improvement in
forecasting reliability in each area and for species and size relationships.
Imports were shown to affect regional markets unevenly, having a significantly
higher impact on south Atlantic shrimp prices than on Gulf of Mexico, West
Coast, or New England markets. Real disposable personal income affected West
Coast and south Atlantic prices much more dramatically than those of Gulf
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