The papers in this collection grew out of an organized symposium at the 1998 meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association: "Conceptual Foundations of Economic Research in Rural Studies." The symposium was organized to provide a forum for discussion of the new frameworks of rural capital and economic geography, to...
This paper discusses moorage costs during the summer of 1974 for 13 coastal boat basins in Oregon, northern California, and southern Washington. A paper prepared for presentation at the winter meeting of the Pacific Coast Congress of Harbor Masters and Port Managers in Newport, Oregon, January 10, 1975.
The purpose of this study was: 1. To determine the percent of the total income spent by each of the five cooperative
houses at Oregon State College for food, heat, light, and
water; repairs and replacements; salaries; laundry; miscellaneous
expense; rent; and amortization of the loan and purchase
of equipment....
The number of Internet news media outlets has skyrocketed in recent years. We analyze
the effects of media proliferation on electoral outcomes assuming voters may choose news
that is too partisan, from an informational perspective, i.e. engage in partisan selective
exposure. We find that if voters who prefer highly partisan...
In recent years, economists have started to move beyond calculating regulatory effects on a pollutant-by-pollutant basis since their interaction is important. In this study, we take up this issue. To allow for joint production of multiple pollutants and marketable output, we specify our technology using a directional distance function. This...
We examine the stability under learning (E-stability) of sunspot equilibria
in non-convex real business cycle models. The production technology is Cobb-
Douglas with externalities generated by factor inputs. We establish that, with a
general utility function, the well-known Benhabib-Farmer condition (Benhabib
and Farmer, 1994) – that the labor-demand curve is...