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  • Input demand and output supply responses when the production function is heteroskedastic

    Creator:
    Lee, Heung-Dong
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in incomplete agricultural markets

    Creator:
    Cross, Robin M.
    Abstract:
    Agricultural revenues, the product of stochastic prices and yields, lead to markets which are incomplete, thereby entreating and complicating economic inquiry. The following three essays explore the incomplete nature of agricultural markets and consider the implications of incompleteness for a range of policy questions and economic tools. The first essay,...
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    Dissertation
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    entreating and complicating economic inquiry. The following three essays explore the incomplete nature of

  • A policy preference analysis of the Tunisian wheat sector

    Creator:
    Boughanmi, Houcine
    Abstract:
    Governments in less developed countries have recognized in recent years the need to liberalize economic policies in order to increase efficiency in agricultural commodity markets. In an attempt to help decision makers assess alternative choices, most policy studies, however, have focused on the efficiency norm criterion without much consideration for...
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    Dissertation
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    intervention and price policy analysis in agriculture have drawn heavily on the welfare concept of economic

  • Public investment policy and industry incentives in life science research

    Creator:
    Wang, Chenggang
    Abstract:
    The biorevolution in the 1970’s greatly stimulated investment in life-science research. The present dissertation is aimed at evaluating the impact of US public investment on industrial investment in life-science research. The focus is on three major life-science fields: biology, medicine, and agriculture. A dynamic model of industrial R&D investment is...
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    Dissertation
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    major life-science fields: biology, medicine, and agriculture. A dynamic model of industrial R&D