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  • The effects of safety practices, technology adoption, and firm characteristics on motor carrier safety

    Creator:
    Dammen, Sarah J.
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    The purpose of this study is to identify firm safety practices, safety technologies, and firm characteristics that are related to motor carrier accident rates. The theory of the firm suggests that firms maximize profit by investing in safety practices and safety technologies until marginal cost is equal to the marginal...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (McCarthy, 2001, pp. 564-566). Economic deregulation of the motor carrier industry gave rise to a wealth

  • Thailand's computer industry : comparative advantage and contribution to economic growth

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    Ordeedolchest, Isara
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    The examination of the performance of Thailand's computer industry, and its contribution to the country's economic growth, are the two major objectives of my research. I study whether the computer industry in Thailand has acquired a comparative advantage. Then, I examine how investment in information technology (IT) has contributed to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    contribution to economic growth AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Isara Ordeedolchest for the degree ofMaster

  • Parking policy with heterogeneous agents

    Creator:
    Spratt, Jake
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    This paper investigates the potential welfare gains resulting from variable parking fees in the presence of heterogeneous agents. We begin by defining a modified linear city model with two lots located at separate distances from a central business district, and two types of agents with heterogeneous values of time. Agents...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Palma best summarize the situation in their 2004 paper: [T]here is little formal economic analysis of

  • An economic analysis of pavement damage caused by studded tires in Oregon

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    Gray, Judith Ann
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    This report frames the debate over studded tires in terms of economic principles of marginal cost pricing and efficient resource allocation. In the absence of a user tax, the pavement damage caused by studded tires results in inefficient pricing because social costs associated with the damage are excluded from the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    An economic analysis of pavement damage caused by studded

  • Economic analysis of potential Camelina oil crop supplies in the Northwest U.S.

    Creator:
    Stein, Lukas
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    The demand for biofuels continues to increase due in part to government standards and promotion as well as the ambitious goals set by various companies and industries. Camelina is considered to be an ideal energy crop because of its low input requirements, suitability for marginal soils, and naturally competitiveness with...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Economics presented on September 14, 2012. Title: Economic Analysis of Potential Camelina Oil Crop

  • Essays on information economics

    Creator:
    Youn, Hyungho
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    This dissertation addresses three topics on information economics. Generally, information is not perfect or costless as classical economics assumes. Thus, a consumer searches information at his cost or a seller provides information at his cost. First, chapter 2 presents a theoretical model where a consumer searches for local brand information....
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    Dissertation
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    good economic years by spending less on loan monitoring but lending aggressively, but has lower

  • How environmental regulations affect productivity of U.S. and Mexican primary iron & steel and aluminum industries

    Creator:
    Hackenbruck, Satenik
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    Many economists believe that the slowdown of the productivity growth rates in the U.S. economy in early 1970's was a consequence of the increased level of environmental regulations. The main reason presented in support of this argument is that increased environmental regulations impose an additional burden to the firms, thus...
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    Masters Thesis
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    3423 Redacted for privacy correspondingly (according to Mexican Economic Census 1975 industrial

  • Pacific Northwest rangeland carbon sequestration

    Creator:
    Wiggins, Seth T.
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    This paper models the supply curve of carbon sequestration on Pacific Northwest rangelands. Rangeland managers have the ability to sequester carbon in agricultural soils by implementing alternative management practices on their farms. Their low adoption rate in practice suggests a high opportunity cost associated with their implementation. To increase their...
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    . Results show that while the economic potential of both systems is much lower than the technical

  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
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    Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such heterogeneity within a narrowly defined industry...
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    Dissertation
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    in agriculture and manufacturing occurs. Moreover, geographic factors appear to be relatively more

  • Measuring costs of carbon sequestration in northwest Russia

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    Panchenko, Valentyn
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    Global warming that may cause environmental catastrophes, dramatic economic losses and, in extreme case, may lead to an extinction of human race, is driven by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and others) into atmosphere. It has been shown that forests can efficiently absorb carbon from...
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    , dramatic economic losses and, in extreme case, may lead to an extinction of human race, is driven by