While sweetener taxes are prevalent worldwide to mitigate the excess consumption of sweeteners that are believed to contribute to obesity, in the United States, a sweetener tax is less effective if applied to aggregate sweetener consumption rather …
Commodity marketing firms’ logistical strategies have escalated in importance in recent years and are a significant factor that affects interfirm competition. Railroads have formulated pricing and allocation mechanisms for rail-cars, resulting in a …
Asymmetric information is prevalent in the grain and oilseed markets. This paper demonstrates the benefits of blockchain technology to mitigate asymmetric information about the soybean's protein quality between sellers and buyers. We use decision …
Forward pricing and allocation mechanisms for rail transportation serve critical functions for the grain-marketing system. We examine the effects of shipping costs on the origin and export basis using a panel simultaneous-equations model. Results …
A blockchain is a distributed, public or private digital ledger that uses cryptography to record transactions across computer networks to prevent records from being altered retrospectively. This paper illustrates the impact of blockchain technology …
Obesity is a public health problem in the United States that has been linked to excess sweetener consumption. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends no more than 6–9 teaspoons/capita/day, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) …
Obesity is a complex health issue in the United States of America (USA) and around the world. The sugar sweetened beverage (SSB) tax has become a popular health policy tool among public representatives to reduce the intake of SSBs. This article …
The U.S. and Mexican sweetener industries have long been involved in disputes and have agreed to several side agreements apart from NAFTA. Sugar associations filed antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty petitions to U.S. institutions in …
A comparison of the costs of farm inputs for turmeric cultivation in India before and after the implementation of Goods and Services Tax is presented. The results indicate that fertiliser costs of turmeric cultivation have reduced by 0.94%, while …
This article identifies the causal relationships among the prices of five fertilizers using both asymptotic Wald test and resampling (bootstrap) techniques. Monthly data for urea, muriate of potash, rock phosphate, diammonium phosphate and triple …