[eBook Code] Government Policy and Farmland Markets (eBook Code, 1st)

Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Foreword.

Section I: Historical Perspectives on Farmland Values.

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).

Section II: Government Policies and Farmland Values.

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 FranFois 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).

Section III: Capital Markets and Farmland Values.

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 Erichon, Ashok K. Mishra. and Charles B. Moss).

Section IV: Transaction Costs and Farmland Values.

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).

Section V: Urbanization, Environmental Quality, and Farmland Values.

16 Local Land Markets and Agricultural Preservation Programs (Lori Lynch 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).

Section VI: Regional and International Dimensions.

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).

Index.