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Creator:: Gonarsyah, Isang
Abstract:: The U.S. white wheat industry relies heavily on export markets. Since the early 1960s these markets have been geographically concentrated in a few countries in Asia. This suggests that developments in a few Asian countries may significantly affect the prospects for U.S. white wheat exports and thereby the economic well...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Institutional Settings 9 The Role of White Wheat in the United States 9 The Role of White Wheat and Soft

Creator:: Lange, William J.
Abstract:: Two econometric models were developed to forecast consumption, production, and price of hardwood lumber, and removals and price of hardwood sawlog stumpage. Four eastern U.S. regions were represented in the models. Hardwood lumber consumption by manufacturing, shipping, residential construction, and nonresidential construction industries was recognized. Hardwood sawlog stumpage removals from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Pendse, Dilipsinha Chintamani
Abstract:: Production and marketing are two important activities of the U.S. beef industry. Spatial differences in these activities result due to the existing cost differences in production and marketing of beef. The overall objective of this study is to determine simultaneously interregional and interseasonal equilibrium, with respect to beef production and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Creator:: Kingslien, Hal K.
Abstract:: This research provides state economic development planners and forest policy makers with new economic information about the wood remanufacturing industry. An overview describes each industry sector's employment, payroll size, and estimates of annual growth rates. This helps planners determine which sectors are likely to provide the most economic benefit to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Wu, Qian
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: United States does not adequately represent the large number of and diverse regions through which trade

Creator:: De Silva, G. A. Canute
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Policies by G. A. Canute De Silva A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial

Creator:: Min, He
Abstract:: 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....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: conditions. The impact of noxious weed regulations on inter-state agricultural trade is

Creator:: Scarborough, Amy D.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the United States in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Abstract approved

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