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  • Producer behavior and the distribution of potential long run consequences in the agricultural market

    Creator:
    Wear, Linda Marie
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    This study is directed toward an investigation of the longer term aggregate consequences that arise from producer behavior in a production environment characterized by risk and uncertainty. In particular, the papers included herein examine circumstances under which individual actions may result in adverse long term consequences in the aggregate market,...
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    formulated by the producer. The second paper explores the issue of declining soil productivity from a

  • 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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    Evaluation of Agricultural Productivity Growth Abstract approved

  • Contending with risk in the seafood processing industry : a bioeconomic portfolio analysis of the Pacific whiting fishery

    Creator:
    Tuininga, Chris R
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    Since harvest levels of many of the world's fisheries are not likely to increase in the foreseeable future, resource managers and seafood processors need to develop improved strategies to maximize the utilization and benefits of current catches. In addition to increasing utilization and benefits, seafood processors are subject to the...
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    other food processors. The productivity of a fishery, like an agricultural crop, is subject to

  • The impact of basic industries on regional economic growth : a case study of Oregon's agricultural sector

    Creator:
    Is-hak, Abdulbasit A
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    The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of the agricultural sector's output and trade on the economic growth and development of the State of Oregon. Economic base theory is applied in the analysis of Oregon's Gross State Product (GSP) between 1977 and 1991. The basic sector is...
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    Gross State Product (Output): 38 Exports, Productivity, and GSP: 45 Employment: 48 SUMMARY AND

  • Trade and productivity effects on firm behavior : the case of Korean manufacturing

    Creator:
    Kim, Sooil
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    This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
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    presented on July 7, 2008. Title: Trade and Productivity Effects on Firm Behavior: The Case of Korean

  • Technology structure and productivity change in the U.S. meat products industry

    Creator:
    Xia, Yin
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    The performance of the meat products industry, the largest food processing sector in the U.S. in terms of shipment value, is an important issue. A key indicator of its performance is productivity growth, which results in reduction in the cost of production at given input prices. The present study employs...
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    Structure and Productivity Change in the U.S. Meat Products Industry. Abstract approved: Steven T

  • Technical structure and productivity change in the U.S. grain milling industries

    Creator:
    Fujii, Yoko, 1974-
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    The grain milling industry has undergone substantial change during the past several decades in technical as well as industry structure. This study seeks to determine how industry performance, as reflected in productivity growth, has varied since the 1950's. Productivity growth is represented primarily by its dual rate, the percentage reduction...
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    . Title: Technical Structure and Productivity Change in the U.S. Grain Milling Industries. Steven

  • Three essays on firm heterogeneity and regional development

    Creator:
    Saito, Hisamitsu
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    The objective of this dissertation is to theoretically and empirically examine the role of firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the effect of agglomeration on regional economic development. In the first essay, I analyze the effect of trade liberalization on agglomeration of high-...
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    firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the