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  • An economic model of search and matching in international trade

    Creator:
    Zhang, Xin
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    Small manufacturing firms often serve a domestic market but would like to expand their sales overseas. It is difficult for a small firm to develop overseas contracts and relationships, however, in part because of their small size, and because the advantages of their products may not always be obvious. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    An Economic Model of Search and Matching in International

  • International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

    Creator:
    Rada, Nicholas E.
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    Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Because food prices’ most critical effects are on human hunger, it is especially...
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    Dissertation
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    ………........................................... 15 2.3 Indonesian Application…………………………………………………………. 16 2.3.1 Econometric Methods

  • Smooth nonparametric conditional quantile profit function estimation

    Creator:
    Piskunov, Anton
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    Recently, in an attempt to produce robust production frontier estimators, Aragon et al. [2005, Nonparametric frontier estimation: a conditional quantile-based approach. Econometric Theory 21, 358-389] and Martins-Filho and Yao [2008, A smooth nonparametric conditional quantile frontier estimator. Journal of Econometrics 143, 317-333] considered the estimation of nonparametric α- frontier models...
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    Masters Thesis
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    conditional quantile-based approach. Econometric Theory 21, 358-389] and Martins-Filho and Yao [2008, A

  • Essays on strategic behavior in supermodular settings : lobbying, advertising and price

    Creator:
    Kudo, Yasushi
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    This dissertation addresses issues of strategic behavior of firms in lobbying, brand and generic advertising, and advertising-price relationships in imperfectly competitive markets. In the first study, we investigate conditions under which lobbying can improve social welfare and show that this type of lobbying will be undersupplied from society’s perspective. We...
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    Dissertation
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    . Also, we model the relationship between generic advertising and brand advertising in markets with n

  • Essays in semiparametric econometrics

    Creator:
    Livingston, Olga Voyteshenko
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    Two essays are focused on semiparametric econometric methods. The first essay investigates applicability of the smooth back tting estimator (SBE) to statistical analysis of residential energy consumption. The second essay attempts to incorporate additivity restrictions into semiparametric stochastic frontier estimation. The procedure described in the first study is used to...
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    Dissertation
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    the dwelling into the model. An extensive overview of econometric analysis of residential energy