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A New World for U.S. Cotton Producers 

As the most export-dependent U.S. program crop, cotton faces unique challenges in the 21st century. Global textile trade reform has altered...

Letters to the Editor; Vote no on NICC tax issue 

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Loras College gets no tax money. Clarke College gets no tax money. The University of Dubuque gets no tax...

Benedict's remarks on Islam 

Pope Benedict finds himself in hot water with many Muslims as a result of his recent speech at Regensburg University. Muslim countries do have...

Let churches pay taxes 

* A recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Congresswoman Katherine Harris, the Republican who was Florida's secretary of state during the...

5 Relative risk aversion for profit. 

A considerable amount of theoretical research has been conducted for economic models where the decision maker maximizes expected utility from an...

1 Introduction.(Measuring Risk Aversion) 

The measurement of a decision maker's propensity to accept or reject risk is an important and well researched topic. The purpose of this survey...

4 Relative risk aversion for consumption.(Measuring Risk Aversion) 

In economic analysis under certainty, models of the decisions made by a consumer usually include more than one outcome variable. In the basic...

7 Summary and conclusions.(Measuring Risk Aversion) 

The stated purpose of this survey is to summarize, discuss, and interpret published research concerning the risk aversion of decision makers who...

Measuring risk aversion.(Brief article) 

Abstract The purpose of the survey is to summarize, discuss, and interpret published research concerning the risk aversion of decision makers...

3 Relative risk aversion for wealth.(Measuring Risk Aversion) 

3.1 Arrow-Pratt wealth Of all of the various outcome variables and risk aversion measures that exist in the literature, the relative risk...