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Joseph Valdes Balagtas
Researcher at Purdue University
Publications - 58
Citations - 732
Joseph Valdes Balagtas is an academic researcher from Purdue University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Competition (economics) & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 53 publications receiving 664 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph Valdes Balagtas include University of California, Davis & University of Maryland, College Park.
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Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency: Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United States
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare productivity and technical efficiency of organic and conventional dairy farms in the United States and find that the organic dairy technology is approximately 13% less productive than the conventional technology.
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The Commodity Terms of Trade, Unit Roots, and Nonlinear Alternatives: A Smooth Transition Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of transactions costs in the North American oriented strand board markets and showed that nonlinearity is an important feature of these markets and that parity relationships implied by economic theory are generally supported by the smooth transition autoregressions.
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Estimating Market Power of U.S. Dairy Cooperatives in the Fluid Milk Market
TL;DR: In this paper, a structural econometric model of vertical relationships is adopted to identify pricing behavior in the supply chain for fluid milk in the United States, and the model consists of a system of equations that allows estimation of oligopoly power of dairy co-operatives and downstream firms, exploiting federal milk marketing order regulations.
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Consumer Response to Package Downsizing: Evidence from the Chicago Ice Cream Market
TL;DR: The authors investigated the extent to which consumers have different sensitivities to package price and package size in order to shed light on the managerial implications of package downsizing, and found that consumers are less responsive to package size than to price.
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Did the commodity price spike increase rural poverty? Evidence from a long‐run panel in Bangladesh
TL;DR: Nargis and Hossain this paper assessed the effects of the dramatic rise in agricultural commodity prices during 2007-2008 on income dynamics and poverty among rural households in Bangladesh, and found that the price of a balanced food basket increased by more than 50% during 2000-2008, while household income rose only 15%.