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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

  • Three essays on international trade and regional productivity

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    Moon, Hanpil
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    A firm's productivity is composed of two parts: pure technical change and location-specific (agglomeration) externalities. Regional productivity is thus an aggregation of productivity of firms producing similar goods and located in a given region. International trade can affect both components of regional productivity. First, trade openness in a closed economy...
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    Productivity Abstract approved:____________________________________________________ Munisamy Gopinath

  • International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

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    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

  • Effects of light, nutrients, and grazing on periphyton communities in streams

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    Gregory, Stanley Vincent
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    Relative effects of light, nutrients, and grazing on primary production were investigated in streams in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and in laboratory streams. Relative magnitudes of primary production and associated processes were examined for one year in a stream that flowed through a clearcut and an old-growth forest in...
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    benthic invertebrates, processing rates of organic matter, and productivity of different biotic

  • Multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior

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    Choi, Jangho
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    The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
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    Multi-Product Firms' Productivity and Export Behavior

  • Remote sensing of radiation intercepted by vegetation to estimate aboveground net primary production across western Oregon

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    Law, Beverly E.
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    Remote sensing of variables necessary to estimate net primary production of vegetation over large temporal and spatial scales has been a goal of climate change research. This thesis consists of two studies that address the reliability of satellite and airborne sensors to quantify a basic component of all production models,...
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  • Productivity interfirm comparison : methodologies with a special application to the Northwest food processors

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    Park, Tongkyu
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    Based on the premise that interfirm comparison can be an effective productivity improvement tool, productivity interfirm comparison (PIC) methods are examined in this research. The first part is an extensive literature review regarding the conventional interfirm comparison (IFC) scheme accepted widely in many countries outside the United States. Then, the...
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    Productivity interfirm comparison : methodologies with a

  • 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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    Productivity Analysis of Economic Systems Abstract approved: RolfFäre P. Gross opf In this work I integrate

  • Primary biomass and production processes in the Columbia River estuary

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    Lara-Lara, Ruben
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    productivity. Freshwater nanoplankton dominated netplankton in terms of biomass and production, and riverine

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

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    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