Research Catalog

Title

Government policy and farmland markets : the maintenance of farmer wealth / [edited by] Charles B. Moss and Andrew Schmitz.

Publication

Ames : Iowa State Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moss, Charles B. (Charles Britt)
• Schmitz, Andrew

Description

xvi, 421 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Farmers > United States > Economic conditions > Congresses
• Agriculture and state > United States > Congresses
• Urbanization > United States > Congresses
• Land use, Rural > Government policy > United States > Congresses
• Farms > Government policy > United States > Congresses
• Farms > Prices > United States > Congresses
• Farms > Valuation > United States > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a conference entitled: Government policy and farmland markets: implications for the new economy held in May 2002 in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Farmland Markets in the Development of U.S. Agriculture / Willard W. Cochrane -- 2. Disaggregating Farmland Markets / Philip M. Raup -- 3. Farmland Markets: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Issues / Bruce J. Sherrick and Peter J. Barry -- 4. The Economics and Politics of Farmland Values / Andrew Schmitz and Richard E. Just -- 5. U.S. Commodity Policies and Land Values / Bruce Gardner -- 6. Explaining Regional Differences in the Capitalization of Policy Benefits into Agricultural Land Values / Barry K. Goodwin, Ashok K. Mishra and Francois N. Ortalo-Magne -- 7. Do Direct Payments Have Inter-Temporal Effects on U.S. Agriculture? / Terry Roe, Agapi Somwaru and Xinshen Diao -- 8. Economies of Farm Size, Government Payments, and Land Costs / Luther Tweeten and Jeffrey Hopkins -- 9. Capital Markets, Land Values, and Boom-Bust Cycles / Allen M. Featherstone and Charles B. Moss -- 10. Hysteresis and the Value of Farmland: A Real-Options Approach to Farmland Valuation / Calum Turvey -- 11. The Certainty Equivalence of Farmland Values: 1910 to 2000 / Charles B. Moss, J. S. Shonkwiler and Andrew Schmitz -- 12. Cash Rents, Imputed Returns, and the Valuation of Farmland Revisited / Kenneth Erickson, Ashok K. Mishra and Charles B. Moss -- 13. On the Dynamics of Land Markets under Transaction Costs / Jean-Paul Chavas -- 14. Spectral Evidence on the Investment Horizon and Transaction Costs for Present-Value Models of Iowa Farmland Prices / Douglas J. Miller -- 15. Using Threshold Autoregressions to Model Farmland Prices under Transaction Costs and Variable Discount Rates / Sergio H. Lence -- 16. Local Land Markets and Agricultural Preservation Programs / Lori Lych and Sabrina J. Lovell -- 17. Efficiency, Equity, and Farmland Protection: An Economic Perspective / Lawrence W. Libby -- 18. Urban Influence: Effects on U.S. Farmland Markets and Value / Charles Barnard, Keith Wiebe and Vince Breneman -- 19. Rural Amenities and Farmland Values / Lawrence W. Libby and Elena G. Irwin -- 20. Micro-Markets for Farmland: The Case of Florida and California / John E. Reynolds and Warren Johnston -- 21. Effects of Government Restrictions on Land Ownership: The Saskatchewan Case / Jared Carlberg and Hartley Furtan.

ISBN

0813823293 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003056586

OCLC

• ocm52429689
• SCSB-4824733

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries