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  • The relationship between vehicle miles traveled and economic activity

    Creator:
    Eckstein, Nathan
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    Vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the U.S. have exhibited an upward trend over time similar to that observed for GDP and personal income. While conventional wisdom suggests that economic growth leads to more driving and thus higher VMT, it is theoretically possible that the causation could also be the other...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Economic Activity by Nathan Eckstein A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

  • An exploration of water quality in the United States using an Environmental Kuznets Curve framework

    Creator:
    Latané, Annah M.
    Abstract:
    This study seeks to explore the determinants of the relationship of economic growth and water quality in the United States using an Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. Specifically this study seeks to determine whether there is evidence of improvement in water quality since passage of the 1972 amendments to the Clean...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . (1995) state that EKC conclusions do not imply that economic growth is sufficient to induce

  • Welfare Effects of the Federal Crop Insurance Program : The Sufficient Statistics Approach

    Creator:
    Yu, Jialing
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    The publicly subsidized Federal Crop Insurance Program has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the United States. With the reform in the 2014 Farm Bill, the Federal Crop Insurance Program has become the most important component of U.S. farm policies. The primary goal of the program is to provide risk...
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    Dissertation
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    publicly subsidized Federal Crop Insurance Program has expanded rapidly in recent decades in the United

  • Maximizing urban property values through open space conservation

    Creator:
    Oakley, Winston
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    This study investigates the share of open space that maximizes total private property values in urban areas. Open space poses a number of trade-offs to city managers. On the one hand, previous studies have shown that certain kinds of open space can increase property values, which tends to increase tax...
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    Masters Thesis
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

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

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
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    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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    entry, exit, and employment at a regional level in the United States. For this purpose, industry

  • RINs and biofuel mandates : comparing ethanol and biodiesel markets

    Creator:
    Ainsworth, Joel H.
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    The United States Congress set out to increase the blending of biofuels by updating and implementing the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) in 2007. The new mandate required that a combination of 36 billion gallons of ethanol, biodiesel, and cellulosic biofuel be blended annually, by 2022. To offset the cost of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ Penelope L. Diebel The United States Congress set out to increase the blending of

  • Is there still a Southwest effect?

    Creator:
    bin Salam, Najmus Sakib
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    The US airline industry is going through a period of consolidation through mergers between leading airlines. A number of recent mergers have been approved by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) based on the presence of Southwest Airlines in merger-affected markets. In doing so, the DOJ makes...
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    Masters Thesis
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    State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of

  • Essays on location decisions and carbon sequestration strategies of U.S. firms

    Creator:
    Wu, Caiwen
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    Location is a critical component of business decisions. A firm's location decision may be influenced not only by market forces, such as the location of input suppliers, output processors and competitors, but also by government policies if such policies impact their expected profits and are applied non-uniformly across space. Likewise,...
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    Dissertation
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    effect of environmental regulations and agglomeration economies across regions in the United States

  • Advances in Modeling Natural Resource Management under Uncertainty : Forest Mortality, Policy Design, and the Value of Information

    Creator:
    Sloggy, Matthew R.
    Abstract:
    Advancing the understanding of natural resource management is an important step in mitigating the effects of human activity on the environment, and ensuring efficient outcomes for many sectors of the economy. As humanity’s role in the natural world becomes better understood, the importance of interdisciplinary modeling has grown in leaps...
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    Dissertation
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    . Introduction Forests in the western United States play a large role in the environmental and economic