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  • Essays on the implications of firm behaviors in learning, locating, and advertising

    Creator:
    Palangkaraya, Alfons
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    This dissertation addresses three topics on the implications of firm behaviors in creating and adopting knowledge of production, choosing international location for production and market access, and using informative advertising in a market competition with multidimensional product characteristics. The first study investigates the empirical evidence of local knowledge spillovers in...
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    Implications of Firm Behaviors in Learning, Locating, and Advertising Abstract approved: Rolf Fare This

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

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    Gultom, Yohanna M. L.
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    In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of institutions, governance structure, transaction costs, and efficiency in public-private contracting. Following transaction cost economic perspective, I build and justify the theoretical models explaining that institutions may affect the economic performance of public-private contracting through the effect of transaction costs....
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    : ______________________________________________________ Rolf G. Färe In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of

  • Climate change and trade in a globalized world

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    Badau, Flavius
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    Environmental sustainability and economic growth is at the forefront of international policy discussions. There is no question that climate change is happening, but also that countries all around the world aspire to continued economic growth. When it comes to climate change, scientists agree that increased carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Rolf Färe

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

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    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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    , Fare et al. (2004) show how one can use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to characterize marketing

  • Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of economic systems

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    In this work I integrate some of my recent research developments in the theory and practice of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Economic Systems. In particular, I present some new theoretical relationships between various measures of efficiency and productivity, propose new solutions to some aggregation problems in efficiency analysis and...
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    valuable comments. In addition, I would like to thank Rolf Fare for spending hundreds of hours of his time

  • Measuring The Effect of Trade Barriers on Exchange Rates Using Data Envelopment Analysis

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    Soteros, Richard
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    The presentation slides are from a conference in Vancouver, WA on May 5, 2016.
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    Honors College Thesis

  • Productivity change and fleet restructuring after transition to individual transferable quota management

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    Färe, Rolf, Grosskopf, Shawna, and Walden, John
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    Productivity change after transition to an individual transferable quota (ITQ) management system is driven by exit of some vessels, entry of other vessels, and changes in productivity of existing vessels. Generally, it is thought that an ITQ system boosts productivity due to the exit of less productive vessels. However, ITQ...
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    fleet restructuring after transition to individual transferable quota management Rolf Färe a, Shawna

  • Technical change and pollution abatement costs

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    Färe, Rolf, Grosskopf, Shawna, and Pasurka, Carl
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    There is continuing interest in the trend of costs associated with pollution abatement activities. We specify an environmental production technology to model the joint production of good and bad outputs. The joint production model calculates pollution abatement costs and identifies changes in these costs associated with: (1) technical change, (2)...
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    costs Technical change and pollution abatement costs Färe, R., Grosskopf, S., & Pasurka, C. (2016

  • Smooth nonparametric conditional quantile profit function estimation

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    Piskunov, Anton
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    Recently, in an attempt to produce robust production frontier estimators, Aragon et al. [2005, Nonparametric frontier estimation: a conditional quantile-based approach. Econometric Theory 21, 358-389] and Martins-Filho and Yao [2008, A smooth nonparametric conditional quantile frontier estimator. Journal of Econometrics 143, 317-333] considered the estimation of nonparametric α- frontier models...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ) are defined respectively as g(x) = sup{y ∈ <+ : (x, y) ∈ Ψ, x ∈

  • An economic model of search and matching in international trade

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    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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    Durham, Dr. Rolf Fare and Dr. Jeffrey Barden for their valuable comments and suggestions. I also want