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  • Financing of cooperative marketing associations in Oregon

    Creator:
    Osika, Clarence Stanley
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    Masters Thesis
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    entered into between Mr. G. o. Gatlin) and Chris L. Christensen of the U. S. D. A., Mr . Christensen

  • Essays on the effect of product recalls and mergers on firm performance

    Creator:
    Yan, Wenfeng
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    This dissertation investigates the effect of endogenous and exogenous events on firm behavior and performance. These are fundamental questions in economics. The contribution of this study is threefold. First, it provides estimates of the impact of mergers on railroad efficiency, which has important antitrust implications. Second, it provides new estimates...
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    Dissertation

  • Foreign direct investment and productivity : financial openness thresholds

    Creator:
    Kabalyk, Maria
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    The last two decades have witnessed a triumph of free market policies in many developing countries and thus an increase in trade and financial openness. While economic theory provides a solid justification of the fact that trade and financial openness for a small economy with perfectly competitive markets improve resource...
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    Masters Thesis
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    index was first initiated by Caves, Christensen, and Diewert (1982) and further developed by Färe

  • Testing for structural differences in general commodity motor carriage

    Creator:
    Tanaka, Hiroshi, 1960-
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    The U.S. trucking industry was deregulated with implementation of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. After deregulation, increased concentration was observed in the general freight segment of the industry. The purpose of this study was to examine structural differences in general freight commodity carriers and to help explain the increased...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . With Shephard's Lemma12, the conditional demand See Christensen and Greene (1976) and Greene (1990

  • Code-sharing in the U.S. airline industry

    Creator:
    Du, Yan
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    This dissertation consists of two essays that address code-sharing alliances in the U.S. domestic airline industry. The first essay examines the economic impact of code-sharing using data from the complementary code-sharing agreement between Southwest and ATA Airlines. This code-share agreement is found to decrease air fares and increase passenger volumes...
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    Dissertation
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    . Please see Caves, Christensen, Tretheway (1984) and Oum and Tretheway (1982) for details. 12 Most

  • How environmental regulations affect productivity of U.S. and Mexican primary iron & steel and aluminum industries

    Creator:
    Hackenbruck, Satenik
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    Many economists believe that the slowdown of the productivity growth rates in the U.S. economy in early 1970's was a consequence of the increased level of environmental regulations. The main reason presented in support of this argument is that increased environmental regulations impose an additional burden to the firms, thus...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of economic systems

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    In this work I integrate some of my recent research developments in the theory and practice of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Economic Systems. In particular, I present some new theoretical relationships between various measures of efficiency and productivity, propose new solutions to some aggregation problems in efficiency analysis and...
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    Dissertation
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    perhaps with the seminal paper by Caves, Christensen and Diewert (1982) who used the Shephard's distance

  • Essays on strategic behavior in supermodular settings : lobbying, advertising and price

    Creator:
    Kudo, Yasushi
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    This dissertation addresses issues of strategic behavior of firms in lobbying, brand and generic advertising, and advertising-price relationships in imperfectly competitive markets. In the first study, we investigate conditions under which lobbying can improve social welfare and show that this type of lobbying will be undersupplied from society’s perspective. We...
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    Dissertation
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    assistance and the staff members, Barbara, Laura, Lisa, Eric, and Betu for their support. Last, but not

  • Essays on applied microeconomics

    Creator:
    Noh, Dong Woon
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    This dissertation addresses three topics on applied microeconomics. First, we investigate issues of market power and tax incidence in the U.S. brewing industry. Since alcohol consumption can be addictive, we derive a structural econometric model of addiction from a dynamic oligopoly game. This model identifies the degree of market power...
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    Dissertation
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    (gy= 1, g,=- 1, g,=- 1) is used to estimate Luenberger productivity indicator for 209 phase I

  • Location choices of Asian immigrants in the United States

    Creator:
    Chong, Weng Yue
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    This study examines the determinants of location choices of Asian immigrants in the US in 1990 and evaluates the effect of education and other quality of life variables as well as the traditional economic variables. The study builds upon similar works by Gallaway, Vedder and Shukla (1974) and Dunlevy and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    concentrated than natives of the same age, as measured by the coefficient of geographic association, G index