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  • Essays on nursery labor, sales contracts, and price discovery

    Creator:
    Li, Cheng
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    Oregon's nursery and greenhouse industry has ranked the first in the State's agricultural for 18 years. The majority of nursery sales from the Pacific Northwest come from Oregon. Due to data limitations, empirical study of the Oregon nursery industry is rare. The present dissertation consists of three essays that analyze...
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    Dissertation
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Steven T. Buccola Oregon’s nursery and greenhouse industry has ranked the first in the

  • The economic value of native pollinators in regard to Oregon blueberry production

    Creator:
    Ritter, Daniel J.
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    Blueberry production in Oregon is highly reliant upon the ecosystem services of native pollinators, which provide as much as a quarter of the total pollination services received by Blueberry growers. However, the health of these pollinator populations may be affected in yet unforeseen ways as growers adopt new pest management...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The economics of commodity promotion in the hazelnut industry

    Creator:
    Miller, Jason D.
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    The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of commodity promotion activities on the United States' hazelnut farmer's economic welfare. Commodity promotion activities, such as generic advertising and research, are the responsibilities of government mandated commodity commissions, such as the Hazelnut Marketing Board (HMB). The HMB is a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    t t t RPH RPROMOMT  (35) This allows us to write the rate of return as

  • Old McDonald had a Microscope: The Impact of Research Spending on U.S. Agricultural Productivity

    Creator:
    Rietmann, Benjamin J.
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    The United States is a global leader in agricultural productivity. Much of its productivity growth can be attributed to public investments in agricultural research and development, starting in the 19th century and continuing until today. Past studies have shown high returns to agricultural research investments, but publicly funded agricultural research...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Steve Buccola, Committee Member, representing the Department of Applied Economics

  • An econometric analysis of output supply and input demand in the Oregon softwood lumber and plywood industries

    Creator:
    Guerrero Ochoa, Isabel G.
    Abstract:
    The present study employs a normalized restricted quadratic profit function approach to estimate lumber and plywood supply and Marshallian factor demand elasticities for four region-product combinations in Oregon for the period 1970-2010. The four log demand functions will be employed as the "demand side" of the log market model of...
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    Capstone Project
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    = βji) is as follows: The profit function (1) π(p,w,K,t) = α0+β0 (Yp /ppi)+ β1 (Logp/ppi) + β2

  • The elasticity of excess demand for United States crop exports

    Creator:
    Zheng, Xiaojuan
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    The elasticity of excess demand held by foreign buyers of United States agricultural products is critical for understanding the impacts of changes in farm policy and is a parameter that is much debated. The objective of my study is to estimate this parameter for major U.S. export crops, including wheat,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . I also would like to thank all my committee members, Dr. Steven T. Buccola, Dr. Munisamy Gopinath

  • Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

    Creator:
    Lewin, Paul A.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation's three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity for rural farm households, the influence of rainfall variability and long-run changes in rainfall levels on the migration decisions of working-age household heads, and the distributional impacts in core and periphery regions of food assistance to households in the hinterland....
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    Dissertation
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    committee Munisamy Gopinath, Steve Buccola, Jeff Reimer, and Jonathan Kaplan, for kindly offering their

  • Ruin Problems with Risky Investments

    Creator:
    Loke, Sooie-Hoe
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    In this dissertation, we study two risk models. First, we consider the dual risk process which models the surplus of a company that incurs expenses at a constant rate and earns random positive gains at random times. When the surplus is invested in a risky asset following a geometric Brownian...
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    Dissertation
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    many of my classes. I would like to acknowledge Dr. Steven Buccola and Dr. Junjie Wu for their

  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
    Abstract:
    Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such heterogeneity within a narrowly defined industry...
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    Dissertation
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    Reimer and Dr. Steve Buccola, for their valuable comments, discussion, and suggestion on my articles

  • Examining Agricultural Household Welfare through Output Marketing Choices and Land Market Efficiency : Evidence from Rural India

    Creator:
    Dickson, Caleb
    Abstract:
    Development research and policy aim to improve household welfare by improving access to assets and economic opportunities (Besley & Burgess 2000; Deininger et al. 2003). In rural and agrarian contexts, these goals may be achieved by well-functioning markets for outputs, inputs, off-farm work, and credit. The status of these markets...
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    Dissertation
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    Buccola, and Dr. Jeffrey Reimer, for their valuable instruction and comments during this process. In