It is widely accepted that practical export finance skills are necessary to successful exporting. Nevertheless, there has been little research into the specialized financial aspects of exporting. This research presents the first evidence of the relative importance of practical export finance skills to Australian agribusiness exporters when they export to the U.S. and Japan. We also report on th...

Digital marketplaces are market institutions that employ digital information technology – computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web – to provide trading services to buyers and sellers. We trace the development of agribusiness digital marketplaces on the World Wide Web and use observations taken from a sample of 233 agribusiness digital marketplaces to assess the impact of marketplace char...

This note explores business incubation as a mechanism for effectively and sustainably accelerating the growth of startup enterprises that bring innovative technologies and services to market. Typically startup enterprises face a number of challenges in growing, including the lack of technical assistance, appropriate financing, networks of partners and customers, and infrastructure. Business inc...

Economic development of transition and developed countries is associated with increasingly unhealthy dietary habits among low-income population segments. Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s sociological theory of risk society, the present research note calls attention to the positive relation between national economic development and food risks that result in the rise of food-related diseases and healthca...

Wagner, Robert, M.S., Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, College of Agriculture, North Dakota State University, April 2001. Risk Management Strategies for Grain Traders and Processors. Major Professor: Dr. William W. Wilson. This study reviewed the theory and current techniques of risk management for firms operating in the agribusiness industry. Various motivations and tools of h...

This paper analyzes the relationships between bilateral trade and economic growth in the U.S. and Korean economies. Using quarterly data from 1990 to 2008, the theoretical procedures utilize Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) models under the static model assumption, an Impulse Response Function (IRF) and Forecast Error Variation Decomposition (FEVD) under the ...

ABSTRACT
 Investment, either directly or indirectly, aims to obtain certain benefits (profits) from the investment, with hope of getting profits in future. For a rational prospective investor, his attention will be directed rate return on and chosen investment is one that promises highest particular risk. Investors investing must assess risk future returns through influence dividend change...

During this past summer, I had the rare (at least to the academician) opportunity to personally visit and travel with over 30 agribusiness salesmen throughout much of the American Southwest. I accompanied many of these “mobilized merchants” on their customer service calls. I rode along with these “practicing scientists” in their pickup trucks as they checked their clients’ operations for agrono...