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  • Essays on nursery labor, sales contracts, and price discovery

    Creator:
    Li, Cheng
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    Oregon's nursery and greenhouse industry has ranked the first in the State's agricultural for 18 years. The majority of nursery sales from the Pacific Northwest come from Oregon. Due to data limitations, empirical study of the Oregon nursery industry is rare. The present dissertation consists of three essays that analyze...
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    Dissertation
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Steven T. Buccola Oregon’s nursery and greenhouse industry has ranked the first in the

  • The economic value of native pollinators in regard to Oregon blueberry production

    Creator:
    Ritter, Daniel J.
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    Blueberry production in Oregon is highly reliant upon the ecosystem services of native pollinators, which provide as much as a quarter of the total pollination services received by Blueberry growers. However, the health of these pollinator populations may be affected in yet unforeseen ways as growers adopt new pest management...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The economics of commodity promotion in the hazelnut industry

    Creator:
    Miller, Jason D.
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    The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of commodity promotion activities on the United States' hazelnut farmer's economic welfare. Commodity promotion activities, such as generic advertising and research, are the responsibilities of government mandated commodity commissions, such as the Hazelnut Marketing Board (HMB). The HMB is a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    t t t RPH RPROMOMT  (35) This allows us to write the rate of return as

  • Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

    Creator:
    Busby, Gwenlyn M.
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    In this dissertation, I examine how the spatial configuration of forest ownership influences the risk-mitigating behavior of public and private forestland owners over time. I determine whether or not the predicted equilibrium outcomes are socially optimal and, if not, whether the introduction of regulation, liability, or private insurance would lead...
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    , Richard Haynes, Jeffrey Arthur, and Steve Buccola, for their valuable comments throughout the evolution

  • An econometric analysis of output supply and input demand in the Oregon softwood lumber and plywood industries

    Creator:
    Guerrero Ochoa, Isabel G.
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    The present study employs a normalized restricted quadratic profit function approach to estimate lumber and plywood supply and Marshallian factor demand elasticities for four region-product combinations in Oregon for the period 1970-2010. The four log demand functions will be employed as the "demand side" of the log market model of...
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    Capstone Project
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    = βji) is as follows: The profit function (1) π(p,w,K,t) = α0+β0 (Yp /ppi)+ β1 (Logp/ppi) + β2

  • The elasticity of excess demand for United States crop exports

    Creator:
    Zheng, Xiaojuan
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    The elasticity of excess demand held by foreign buyers of United States agricultural products is critical for understanding the impacts of changes in farm policy and is a parameter that is much debated. The objective of my study is to estimate this parameter for major U.S. export crops, including wheat,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . I also would like to thank all my committee members, Dr. Steven T. Buccola, Dr. Munisamy Gopinath

  • Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

    Creator:
    Lewin, Paul A.
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    This dissertation's three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity for rural farm households, the influence of rainfall variability and long-run changes in rainfall levels on the migration decisions of working-age household heads, and the distributional impacts in core and periphery regions of food assistance to households in the hinterland....
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    Dissertation
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    committee Munisamy Gopinath, Steve Buccola, Jeff Reimer, and Jonathan Kaplan, for kindly offering their

  • 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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    Stivers and Dr. Steve Buccola for their valuable comments and suggestions in all aspects of this

  • Political economy and trade effects of invasive species regulation : the case of noxious weeds

    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....
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    like to thank all my committee members, Dr. Steven T. Buccola, Dr. Peter B. McEvoy, Dr. Jeffrey J

  • Ruin Problems with Risky Investments

    Creator:
    Loke, Sooie-Hoe
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    In this dissertation, we study two risk models. First, we consider the dual risk process which models the surplus of a company that incurs expenses at a constant rate and earns random positive gains at random times. When the surplus is invested in a risky asset following a geometric Brownian...
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    many of my classes. I would like to acknowledge Dr. Steven Buccola and Dr. Junjie Wu for their