ALTERNATIVE CALIBRATION AND AUCTION INSTITUTIONS FOR PREDICTING CONSUMER WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY FOR NON-GENETICALLY MODIFIED CORN CHIPS

This study explores two important issues in experimental economics: calibration and auction institution. Consumer willingness-to-pay bids for corn chips made with non-genetically modified ingredients are elicited from a 1st price and 2nd price auction. Results suggest that responses to scale differential questions, in a survey, accurately predict consumer willingness-to-pay bids. The 2 nd price auction induces a greater percentage of marginal bidders to offer a positive bid than a 1st price auction. However, average bid levels in the 1st and 2nd price auctions were not statistically different from one other. In a small and unrepresentative sample, 70 percent of student participants were unwilling to pay to exchange a bag of genetically modified corn chips for a bag of non-genetically modified corn chips. However, 20 percent of respondents were willing to pay at least $0.25/oz for the exchange.Consumer/Household Economics, Demand and Price Analysis,

Public and Private Preferences for Policies Related to Meat and Milk from Clones

Agricultural and Food Policy,

Prosecutors Are Permitted to Display Admissible Weapons to Juries during Opening Statements in Pennsylvania: \u3cem\u3eCommonwealth v. Parker\u3c/em\u3e

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing a prosecutor to display a tangible object during the opening statements where the prosecution intended to introduce the object during trial as evidence and where there was no issue as to the admissibility of the evidence. Commonwealth v. Parker, 919 A.2d 943 (Pa. 2007)

W. R. Lusk to Ross Barnett, 20 September 1962

Lusk requests to be made registrar for the semester and states he would gladly go to jail to preserve our rights as a soverign state. The telegram was not delivered on campus.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/west_union_gov/1016/thumbnail.jp

Weather and Age Ratios of Northern Bobwhites in South Texas

Understanding the effects of weather on quail reproduction in semiarid environments requires simultaneous consideration of temperature and precipitation data. Therefore, we used neural modeling to assess the interactive effects of summer (Jun–Aug) temperatures (monthly means of daily maxima) and seasonal precipitation (totals) on age ratios (juvenile/adult) of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in south Texas based on data collected during 1940–97 (n = 35, 23 years missing). Age ratios increased with June temperature. Ratios were insensitive to mean maximum daily temperature in July up to 36 C, when they began to decline rapidly. Ratios were insensitive to August temperatures. Ratios increased in an asymptotic manner with fall (Sep–Nov), spring (Mar–May), and summer precipitation, and were least sensitive to fall precipitation and most sensitive to spring precipitation. Based on our analysis, temperature and precipitation influenced bobwhite production in a complex, nonlinear manner that seemed to contain thresholds and asymptotes. Low temperatures can ameliorate the negative effects of drought, and high temperatures can suppress the positive effects of precipitation. The apparent asymptotic effect of precipitation, given temperature, illustrates that assumed linearity between precipitation and production may lead to errors of interpretation and expectation for production in a particular year