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

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    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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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Steven T. Buccola Oregon’s nursery and greenhouse industry has ranked the first in the

  • Wildfire risk management : strategic interaction and spatial interdependence

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    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

  • The public forage pricing implications of public/private market interdependence

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    Collins, Alan
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    like to thank committee members Dr. Olvar Bergland and Dr. Steve Buccola for their valuable

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

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    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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    committee Munisamy Gopinath, Steve Buccola, Jeff Reimer, and Jonathan Kaplan, for kindly offering their

  • Code-sharing in the U.S. airline industry

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    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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    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

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    Min, He
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    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

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    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

  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
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    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...
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    Reimer and Dr. Steve Buccola, for their valuable comments, discussion, and suggestion on my articles

  • An investigation of the measurement of individual risk attitudes

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    Winter, John R.
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    Two direct elicitation of utility (D.E.U.) techniques were used to estimate risk attitudes of a group of agricultural producers. The two elicitation techniques used in the study were 1) an error-in-response model using a modified Ramsey method, and 2) stochastic dominance with respect to a function (SDF). The primary objective...
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    Attitudes. Abstract approved: ,_,„ ^ (for Steven T. Buccola) Two direct elicitation of utility (D

  • Examining Agricultural Household Welfare through Output Marketing Choices and Land Market Efficiency : Evidence from Rural India

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    Dickson, Caleb
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    Development research and policy aim to improve household welfare by improving access to assets and economic opportunities (Besley & Burgess 2000; Deininger et al. 2003). In rural and agrarian contexts, these goals may be achieved by well-functioning markets for outputs, inputs, off-farm work, and credit. The status of these markets...
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    Buccola, and Dr. Jeffrey Reimer, for their valuable instruction and comments during this process. In