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  • Essays on Regional Economic Impact Assessment and Demand Analysis using Disaggregated Data

    Creator:
    Chen, Yunguang
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    The appropriate use of disaggregated economic data not only improves the accuracy and robustness of economic analyses, but also extends the existing economic models to address new aspects of the issue. This dissertation consists of three essays: two essays use disaggregated economic-engineering data to address spatial heterogeneity in economic losses...
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    purchase data in fresh fruit demand analysis. The first essay presents an integrated engineering-economic

  • Essays on strategic behavior in oligopoly markets : advertising, output, and price competition

    Creator:
    Isariyawongse, Kosin
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    This dissertation addresses issues of strategic behavior of firms in oligopoly markets. In the first study we analyze how generic advertising affects brand advertising and firm profits in differentiated oligopoly markets. We develop two models, one with vertical differentiation and another with horizontal differentiation. In the case of vertical differentiation,...
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    Dissertation
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    horizontal differentiation. In the case of vertical differentiation, we amend Crespi’s (2007) model to

  • An economic model of search and matching in international trade

    Creator:
    Zhang, Xin
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    Small manufacturing firms often serve a domestic market but would like to expand their sales overseas. It is difficult for a small firm to develop overseas contracts and relationships, however, in part because of their small size, and because the advantages of their products may not always be obvious. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    An Economic Model of Search and Matching in International

  • Using country-level forest coverage to analyze the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve

    Creator:
    Gulpen, Sam Franciscus Johannes
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    This thesis seeks to analyze the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality, in this case measured by forest cover, and analyzes whether this relationship is consistent with an Environmental Kuznets Curve. Additionally the relationship between population density and forest cover was analyzed. A simple theoretical model is derived that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and forest cover was analyzed. A simple theoretical model is derived that describes a number of

  • 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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  • Bioeconomic Simulation Modeling of Fisheries : Three Essays

    Creator:
    Cusack, Christopher Inju
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    Researchers rely on bioeconomic models to guide research and generate fishery management advice for commercial fisheries. Due partly to a paradigm shift towards ecosystem based fishery management, increasing complexity in the characteristics of the problems has meant that bioeconomic simulation models are becoming more prevalent in the fisheries literature. However...
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    Dissertation
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    the economic behavior of fishermen is either omitted, or incorporated using a model that is not

  • Essays on the use of distance functions in empirical studies : efficiency measurement and beyond

    Creator:
    Vardanyan, Mikayel
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    This dissertation explores the intricacies associated with the use of distance functions in empirical studies. It focuses on the measurement of advertising efficiency and investigates the properties of the models that seek to approximate the abatement costs of socially undesirable outputs. The first manuscript is devoted to the development of...
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    specific model. Finally, the third study established the legitimacy of the GMM procedure as a choice of an

  • The multidimensional role of intrinsic quality in the management of natural resources : a bioeconomic analysis of the Pacific whiting fishery

    Creator:
    Larkin, Sherry L.
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    The relationship between intrinsic fish quality (fish condition before handling), production efficiency, product price, and the optimal management of commercial "wild" fisheries was explored in four companion papers. The optimal management plan-consisting of quotas and harvest schedules - would maximize the discounted net industry revenues (NPV) given a minimum biomass...
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    Masters Thesis
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    and corresponding production yields to model a vertically integrated fishery from harvest through

  • International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

    Creator:
    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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    Dissertation
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    is the largest coffee, sugar, and fruit juice producer, second-largest soybean and beef producer

  • Developing a should-cost model to predict display pricing in smartphones

    Creator:
    Parameshwaran Kashi, Viswanath
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    Companies working on new product development of smartphones seek to adopt designs and methodologies to help them stay competitive. Due to its high cost contribution to a smartphone, optimizing display cost is an important part of a smartphone's cost reduction activity. Hence, strategically sourcing displays in the development of smartphones...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Title: Developing a Should-Cost Model to Predict Display Pricing in Smartphones Abstract approved