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Creator:: Spratt, Jake
Abstract:: This paper investigates the potential welfare gains resulting from variable parking fees in the presence of heterogeneous agents. We begin by defining a modified linear city model with two lots located at separate distances from a central business district, and two types of agents with heterogeneous values of time. Agents...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: city model with two lots located at separate distances from a central busi- ness district, and two

Creator:: Peck, Dannele E.
Abstract:: The impact of recent severe droughts throughout the United States, the potential for climate change to intensify the frequency and severity of drought, and discussion about the future of government assistance in agriculture highlight the need for a transition from drought as ‘disaster’ to drought as ‘managed risk’. However, guidance...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Tedder, Philip L., Schmidt, James S., Gourley, Jonna, and Oregon State University. Forest Research Laboratory
Abstract:: Volume I: TREES (Timber Resource Economic Estimation System), a forest management and harvest scheduling model, is comprehensively described in the first of a four-volume series. Even- or uneven-aged forest inventories form basic resource units (BRUs), entered by age class or size and diameter classes; stocking level; and management intensity. Management...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

Creator:: Lin, Haixia
Abstract:: To protect and restore environmental quality, efficient and effective conservation policies are needed. Designing policies require a sound understanding of the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of conservation programs. This dissertation consists of three essays, and addresses several issues relevant to these two...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . However, environmental degradation caused by governmental policies and economic-development activities

Creator:: Valcic, Branka
Abstract:: To increase the knowledge needed to successfully implement the ecosystem-based approach to fishery management, this dissertation investigates important issues within the economics of choice and the economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the Newport, Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery is estimated...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the

Creator:: Rompa, William J.
Abstract:: About 300 local businesses and industries in Clatsop County were interviewed and asked questions about their sales and purchases. The information they supplied from this survey was used to develop the economic model. This publication describes some of the findings of the study and how the model can be used...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: of the effects of new economic development opportunities in the community. With the economic model

Creator:: Broniak, Christine T.
Abstract:: Private land-use decisions can have important effects on private and public welfare. Market-based policies to regulate land use have the potential to move the privately-optimal allocation of land closer to what is socially optimal. To implement these policies in the Rocky Mountain states, it is necessary to understand the effects...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: consistent with 5 economic expectations. To fully model the effects of net returns in

Creator:: Deutschman, Stephanie
Abstract:: A basic tradeoff to consider when designing a distributed data-mining framework is the need for a compromise between the cost of communication and computation resources and the accuracy of the mining results. This is essentially a decision of whether it is more efficient to communicate all of the data to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this tradeoff. This thesis also develops a methodical mathematical framework to describe this type

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