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  • The contribution of trade to on economic growth and productivity

    Creator:
    Khaodhiar, Suthikul
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    The relationship of openness, growth and total factor productivity is investigated empirically using panel regressions for 48 countries. This study tests a variety of openness measures, including the ratio of trade (exports plus imports), imports, exports and primary exports to GDP. We also study the effects of the interaction of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Factor Price Equalization Penn World Table 5.6

  • Learning cost-sensitive diagnostic policies from data

    Creator:
    Zubek, Valentina Bayer
    Abstract:
    In its simplest form, the process of diagnosis is a decision-making process in which the diagnostician performs a sequence of tests culminating in a diagnostic decision. For example, a physician might perform a series of simple measurements (body tem- perature, weight, etc.) and laboratory measurements (white blood count, CT scan,...
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    Dissertation
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    training examples from which we can compute the transition probability model, we can de�ne an MDP whose

  • A comparison of box-cox and additive exponential models to estimate the depreciation of farm machinery

    Creator:
    Wu, Jing
    Abstract:
    Farm machinery continues to increase in its importance to the agricultural sector. Depreciation, the decline in value of a durable asset over time, represents one of the largest costs of agricultural production. The general objectives of this study were to update and expand the number of Remaining Value (RV) functions...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Hedonic Approach 9 2.2 Theoretical Development 10 2.2.1 Theoretical Development in Box-Cox model 14

  • 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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    city model with two lots located at separate distances from a central busi- ness district, and two

  • Optimization, conservation and valuation of contingent claims in economic resource management under uncertainty

    Creator:
    Jia, Siwei
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    This dissertation consists of three papers studying optimization, conservation and valuation of contingent claims in economic resource nianagement under uncertainty. In the first paper the Markovian optinial policies are studied for resource management in a finite time horizon. Under sonic conditions, in particular, when the prices are stochastic and there...
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    Dissertation
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    . Mathematical Biosciences 12, 245-260. Reed, J. W., 1974. A stochastic model for the economic management of a

  • Economics of drought preparedness and response in irrigated agriculture

    Creator:
    Peck, Dannele E.
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    The impact of recent severe droughts throughout the United States, the potential for climate change to intensify the frequency and severity of drought, and discussion about the future of government assistance in agriculture highlight the need for a transition from drought as ‘disaster’ to drought as ‘managed risk’. However, guidance...
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    Dissertation

  • Essays on natural endowments, conservation policy, and community characteristics

    Creator:
    Lin, Haixia
    Abstract:
    To protect and restore environmental quality, efficient and effective conservation policies are needed. Designing policies require a sound understanding of the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of conservation programs. This dissertation consists of three essays, and addresses several issues relevant to these two...
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    Dissertation
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    . However, environmental degradation caused by governmental policies and economic-development activities

  • The economics of spatial choice and displacement: case study of the Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery

    Creator:
    Valcic, Branka
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    To increase the knowledge needed to successfully implement the ecosystem-based approach to fishery management, this dissertation investigates important issues within the economics of choice and the economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the Newport, Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery is estimated...
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    Dissertation
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    economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the

  • Land use and land-use change in the Rocky Mountain west

    Creator:
    Broniak, Christine T.
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    Private land-use decisions can have important effects on private and public welfare. Market-based policies to regulate land use have the potential to move the privately-optimal allocation of land closer to what is socially optimal. To implement these policies in the Rocky Mountain states, it is necessary to understand the effects...
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    Masters Thesis
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    consistent with 5 economic expectations. To fully model the effects of net returns in

  • Accuracy versus cost in distributed data mining

    Creator:
    Deutschman, Stephanie
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    A basic tradeoff to consider when designing a distributed data-mining framework is the need for a compromise between the cost of communication and computation resources and the accuracy of the mining results. This is essentially a decision of whether it is more efficient to communicate all of the data to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    this tradeoff. This thesis also develops a methodical mathematical framework to describe this type