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  • Separability tests on wheat production functions in Oregon

    Creator:
    Bhadra, Binayak Prasad
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    Many natural resources such as water and forests have become more intensively used in recent years. Often, this has made it necessary to reallocate these resources from less to more efficient productive usage. The knowledge of the existing tradeoffs between alternative uses are necessary to make reallocative decisions. However, these...
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    : SEPARABILITY TESTS ON WHEAT PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS IN OREGON Abstract approved / John A. Edwards Many natural

  • Spatial and inter-temporal price analysis : including risk perceptions and dynamic trade flow information

    Creator:
    Han, Shengfei
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    A regime-switching model for market integration study is extended to incorporate dynamic trade flow information and risk perceptions based on an expected utility framework. An application of the extended model to the US-China soybean markets analysis shows that: One, the positive arbitrage rent uncounted-for in the extended model has been...
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    Abstract approved: Catherine A. Durham A regime-switching model for market integration study is extended

  • China's soybean futures contract : China's integration with the U.S. soybean futures market

    Creator:
    Si, Wenguang
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    In 1996, China started to increase its annual soybean imports at a tremendously high speed. It has become one of the most important soybean import markets for the world's largest soybean producers: the United States, Brazil and Argentina. In the meantime, the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), a Chinese soybean futures...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: ____ C; __ fi( __ -__ -_C:::_. _{)_~------------- Catherine A. Durham In 1996, China started to

  • The fiscal response of Oregon counties to mental health grants

    Creator:
    Savage, John F.
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    State and federal aid payments to local governments have grown explosively over the last fifteen years. One reason for this growth is that the donor governments can alter a local government's budget choices through grants. Grants have not remedied social problems, however, because the local governments' responses to grants were...
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    : ( ^ .._ . _ . Bruce A. Weber State and federal aid payments to local governments have grown ex- plosively over the

  • The economics of land gains taxation : the Vermont case

    Creator:
    Daniels, Thomas L.
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    Governments have employed special capital gains taxes to curb speculation in real estate and raise public revenue. Economic theory suggests that the introduction of a gains tax with a declining rate structure over time will induce prospective buyers to reduce their demand for land and will induce sellers to offer...
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    raise public revenue. Economic theory suggests that the introduction of a gains tax with a declining

  • Essays on the economics of wildlife management

    Creator:
    Rashford, Benjamin S.
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    Wildlife managers are on the front lines of the effort to conserve wildlife and are required to do so cost-effectively. This dissertation consists of three manuscripts that integrate economics and ecology to inform cost-effective wildlife management. The first and second manuscripts focus on identifying cost-effective wildlife management plans. The third...
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    by Benjamin S. Rashford A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University

  • A policy preference function analysis of the forest sector in the Cote d'Ivoire

    Creator:
    Yapi, Atse
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    The main objective of this study was to offer an alternative methodology for forest sector modeling in developing economies. To this effect, a policy preference function was developed and estimated using data from the forest sector of the Cote d'Ivoire. The justification for this alternative framework for forest sector analysis...
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    . 1993 Title: A Policy Preference Function Analysis of the Forest Sector in the COted'Ivoire J. Douglas

  • The impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on Pacific Northwest wheat transportation : a spatial equilibrium analysis

    Creator:
    Cabeza, Felix
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    This study analyzes the impact of the 1980 Staggers Rail Act (SRA) on Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana) wheat transportation. A minimum cost uncapacitated transshipment network flow model is employed to simulate the origination and destination pattern of grain flows before (1977) and after (1985) the SRA. The...
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    : The Impact of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 on Pacific Northwest Wheat Transportation: A Spatial

  • The willingness of Central Oregon irrigators to donate water rights to augment Deschutes River flow

    Creator:
    Barkley, David, 1972-
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    This study used contingent valuation techniques to estimate the willingness of central Oregon Irrigators to donate a portion of their water rights to increase Deschutes River flow. This study was different from previous contingent valuation studies in that it used water rights as the payment vehicles instead of dollars -...
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    central Oregon Irrigators to donate a portion of their water rights to increase Deschutes River flow

  • Tax components and the degree of economic development

    Creator:
    Abizadeh, Sohrab
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    Dissertation
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    the Chow test, provided a framework for our conclusions. 21 Having dealt with the direct tax