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Dynamic issues in applied microeconomics: market performance, market structure and advertising competition

Creator:

Iwasaki, Natsuko

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This dissertation addresses issues of oligopoly markets where advertising plays a prominent role. The first study empirically investigates the effect of advertising regulations on equilibrium consumption of an addictive commodity using U.S. cigarette industry data. The results of the first study show that the advertising regulations reduced cigarette consumption by...

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addresses the effect of advertising on the market structure and performance using U.S. brewing industry
Political economy and trade effects of invasive species regulation : the case of noxious weeds

Creator:

Min, He

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Many non-native weed pests of food, fiber, and nursery crops pose threats to U.S. environment and agriculture. Noxious weed regulations play an important role in preventing the introduction and spread of non-native plants, thereby protecting the local biodiversity, environment and economic activities. However, these regulations could also hamper agricultural trade....

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Dissertation

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Conservation Policy and Land Value: The Conservation
Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Creator:

Scarborough, Amy D.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...

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Dissertation

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discussion on bird conservation and legislation to stop the loss and decline of birds.2 There were