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Is Regulation Necessary for Value-of-Service Pricing?
This article presents evidence for the existence of value-of-service pricing in the never-regulated market for trucking services to haul Florida produce. Rates per truckload are found to increase by eleven to twelve cents for every one dollar increase in the average daily loss in the value of the cargo due to product deterioration, ceteris paribus. This result is at variance with the commonly held belief that value-of-service pricing in transportation is a form of price discrimination made possible by the policies of rate bureaus and regulatory agencies.
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Ranking of agricultural economics departments: influence of regional journals, joint authorship, and self-citations
Citations are increasingly used to indicate the quality of an academic unit's work. The set of literature or journals, however, becomes crucial to any ranking scheme. Citations from the broadly based Social Science Citations Index suggest a different ranking of departments than the ranking obtained from a somewhat narrowly focused set of North American journals of agricultural economics. The paper seeks to determine the influence of regional journals, joint authorship, and self-citations on departmental rankings. Data bases of citations are developed for the faculty of seventy-three departments of agricultural economics in the United States and Canada.
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The Adequacy of Trucking Service Supplies for Produce: Trends in the 1980s
Over 90 percent of interstate produce movements are by truck. In recent years, concerns have been raised regarding the adequacy of motor carrier services. Reasons for these concerns include the possibility of increased costs or service erosions resulting from relaxed economic regulations, an eroding road infrastructure, increasing congestion, more stringent safety regulations, demographic trends suggesting the onset of an increasingly severe driver shortage, and declines in rail capacity devoted to produce haulage. In this study, trends in the adequacy of trucking services for trucking during the 1980s was examined employing data sets developed by the USDA regarding haulage from five growing areas to six metropolitan areas across the United States, and a case study based on over 9,000 interviews with drivers hauling Rorida produce, conducted between 1982 and 1989. The results of the study suggest that there have been no erosions in service adequacies.
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Ranking of agricultural economics departments by citations
Ranking of agricultural economics departments based upon the number of articles or article pages does not take into account the impact or usefulness of these journal articles or other works to the profession. In this paper, an alternative ranking scheme is employed which utilizes citations from a broad array of publications of a department's faculty. Rankings are developed for agricultural economics units at 1862 land grant universities, 1890 land grant universities, independent U.S. universities, and Canadian universities, as well as an overall composite ranking and comparisons with economics departments.
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The Determinants of Full-Empty Truck Movements
A model is developed to explain full-empty movement decisions for motor carriers. The model is estimated for movements to Florida of carriers serving the Florida produce/ornamentals industry. The results indicate that carriers act rationally, basing their decisions on a wide range of factors. The findings also suggest that regulatory restrictions continue to result in unnecessary empty movements.
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Perishables--the new intermodal battleground
Extract: Spurred on by regulatory changes and technological developments, railroads are back in the competitive battle for shipments of fresh fruits and vegetables. The railroad share of these shipments fell from 73% to 39% from 1950 to 1970, and dropped even further to 10% in 1980. But this trend has reversed in later years, with rail share increasing to 12% in 1983. In this paper we discuss the reasons for possible continuance of this trend and then identify implications of this turnaround to the agricultural community.
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