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Creator:: Thevenon, Michel Jean
Abstract:: The objective of this study is to investigate those economic considerations that may limit the ability of the Pacific Northwest's pulp and paper industry to compete with other regions producing pulp, paper and board for world markets. The share of the Pacific Northwest and the United States in world trade...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Berrens, Robert Patrick, 1962-
Abstract:: Despite several decades of research developments, the survey-based contingent valuation (CV) method remains one of the most controversial topics in environmental economics. As the procedure matures and more applied studies are completed, there is increasing pressure to make the results policy relevant. This research is composed of three distinct yet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Robert P. Berrens for the degree

Creator:: Kelly, Sharon
Abstract:: New types of exchange arrangements are becoming increasingly popular for a wide range of goods traded internationally. Several types of countertrade arrangements have been identified, ranging from pure barter to more elaborate schemes where only a portion of the trade is "paid for" in goods, including bilateral trading agreements with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Bruce Rettig, and Dr. Robert Stalley, for their helpful and insightful comments and suggestions. I

Creator:: Richardson, James Andrew
Abstract:: Fishing firms in Oregon operate in a complex and dynamic physical, biological and institutional environment. Within this environment, managers of these firms will attempt to maximize some objective function which may include profit. This maximization is dependent upon the level of output, or the levels of inputs. Given a relationship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: his enthusiasm and patience. Thanks are also due my committee members Bruce Rettig and Tom

Creator:: Stephenson, Garry Owen
Abstract:: Implementation of. the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 affords opportunities for fishery expansion and economic development in the Oregon otter trawl fishery. The changes stimulated by the Act should occur, according to social science theorists, by the diffusion of innovations from innovative fishermen to less innovative fishermen, with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: extended to the remainder of my committee- - William Appleman Williams, Bruce Rettig and Stanley Shively

Creator:: Khan, Ahmad Saeed
Abstract:: This study is an economic analysis of enrollment demand for graduate education at Oregon State University as well as in the United States. For the analysis of Oregon State University data on new graduate enrollment, data were obtained for 27 academic departments with 10 observations per department. The most important...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee members, including Dr. Bruce Rettig, Dr. William Brown, and Dr. Roger Petersen, provided

Creator:: Yildiz, Oktay
Abstract:: Effects of partial understory removal on belowground and aboveground ecosystem properties were investigated in 5 and 15 yr old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesll (Mirb.) Franco) experimental plantations in western Oregon. Seedling survival was not affected by understory removal at age 5 yr. But through age 15 yr, understory removal increased seedling...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Steve Radosevich, John Baham, and Bruce Rettig for their guidance and support. Dr. Robert Wagner

Creator:: Wilson, James R. (James Rolland), 1951-
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of my thesis: Ron Oliveira for comments on the econometric analyses in Chapter III and Bruce McCarl

Creator:: Cerda, Arcadio Alberto
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on the economic efficiency of alternative habitat, streamfiow, and land use allocations within a major drainage of the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, productivity of present habitat and streamfiow conditions is evaluated with respect to anadromous fish species (chinook salmon and steelhead trout) in the John Day River Basin,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Love, Dr. Bruce Rettig, and Dr. Frederick Smith, who assisted the completion of this thesis. A

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