Analysis of Price Expectations of Select Illinois Hog Producers

This dissertation identifies and models the subjective probability distribution of an unknown decision variable, hog price expectations. The four specific goals were: (1) to describe the shape of the subjective probability distribution; (2) to examine how the expectations behave over time and across individuals; (3) to determine how these expectations can best be represented with models based on secondary data; and (4) to identify individual characteristics which are associated with changes in producers subjective probability distributions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Taylor, William Joseph

• Economics, Agricultural

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8803218

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69884