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  • Pricing strategies, discount rates and fishery management in the market for seafood

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    Zhang, Zhengkun
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    Three related topics have been explored in this thesis. Those three topics deal with the pricing problems both in the market for access rights to fish and in the market for seafood. The purpose of this study is to contribute some insights into the global picture of fishery management and...
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    Nielsen, Professor Chi-Chur Chao and Professor Marshall English, graduate committee members, for their

  • National health insurance in Taiwan : welfare analysis and hospital competition

    Creator:
    Chen, Wen-Yi
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    This dissertation consists of three essays that evaluate various types of health care policies from the social welfare perspective. Chapter 1 introduces the main ideas and framework of this dissertation. Chapter 2 evaluates the new co-payment policy, enacted on July 15, 2005 under Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI). We show...
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    during my Ph.D study period. Dr. Chunuei Chi provided me a most valuable data set for my dissertation

  • Strategy selection in the Oregon trawl fisheries

    Creator:
    Harman, Ellen Jean
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    The ocean fishery is an example of a common property resource industry. Behavior of commercial fishermen is determined by a complex set of economic, environmental and social factors. All of these factors contribute to the individual fisherman's success. Fishermen learn to cope with the variability inherent to their occupation. Two...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Essays in applied economics

    Creator:
    Nag, Sharmistha
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    My dissertation concerns two separate issues. The first issue is examined in Essay One, and the second issue is examined in Essays Two and Three. The first essay develops an economic model of the determination of the rental rate of leased farmland in the United States. Particular attention is placed...
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  • An economic and socio-cultural analysis of new farm technology : the case of stabling in Senegal

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    Fisher, Monica Grace
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    A study is conducted to provide information useful to the future development of agro-pastoralists in the Kolda Region through an economic and socio-cultural analysis of the practice of stabling. Two main issues are addressed: the generation and distribution of profits and the factors related to adoption of stabling. A partial...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Resource Economics Monica Grace Fisher, Author Dean of Gradi te School I understand that my thesis will

  • Public investment policy and industry incentives in life science research

    Creator:
    Wang, Chenggang
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    The biorevolution in the 1970’s greatly stimulated investment in life-science research. The present dissertation is aimed at evaluating the impact of US public investment on industrial investment in life-science research. The focus is on three major life-science fields: biology, medicine, and agriculture. A dynamic model of industrial R&D investment is...
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    Dissertation

  • Technological change and comparative advantage of the agricultural and food processing sectors

    Creator:
    Carver, Jason M.
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    The composition of global agricultural trade is shifting from primary commodities to processed foods in terms of value and quantity. It is important to understand the linkages between agriculture and food processing to identify the sources of the structural change in agricultural trade. The question addressed by this research is...
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  • Essays on productivity, economic geography and trade : the case of Chile

    Creator:
    Echeverria, Rodrigo A.
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    This dissertation investigates the relative importance of firm-specific and geographic characteristics for export behavior in the Chilean primary and processed food industries. The first essay develops a new method for measuring geographic characteristics to account for economic activity in adjacent, but separate spatial units. In the application to the Chilean...
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    Dissertation

  • An economic analysis of irrigation development in Nam Pong Irrigation Project, Khon Kaen, Thailand

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    Sriswasdilek, Jerachone
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    Dissertation

  • Effects of U.S. commodity programs on farm growth

    Creator:
    Sukume, Chrispen
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    The U.S. farm sector has undergone dramatic structural change during the past fifty years, a chief result being that the number of large farms has increased relative to the number of small farms. Numerous agricultural policies have been instituted, with the partial objective of preserving the family farm. At the...
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