Economists have long been interested in empirically modelling/forecasting the price of staple commodities using both structural and reduced form models. The purpose of this paper is to apply Pesaran’s Autoregressive Distributed Lag/ Error-Correction Bounds model for forecasting the ex-vessel price of lobster on the east coast of Canada using monthly...
Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
Native freshwater fish biodiversily is imperiled in Oregon with 36 species
or sub-species listed by the State of Oregon as sensitive, threatened, or endangered, and
9 species or sub-species listed as endangered or threatened under the federal
Endangered Species Act. Understanding and managing biodiversity is critical to its
conservation. Using...
Since the 1964 earthquake and geologic uplift, beavers (Castor canadensis) have expanded their historic range from the inland (outwash plain) Copper River Delta, Alaska to the once tidally influenced areas of the outer area (uplifted marsh). The uplift presents a unique opportunity to observe beaver expansion, habitat selection and influence...
I evaluated the response of the federally listed endangered plant species Bradshaw's desert parsley (Lomatium bradshawii) to livestock grazing and small mammal depredation at Oak Creek, Linn County, Oregon, 1997-1998. I established six study blocks (three each in wooded and herbaceous pastures) with plots in each block randomly assigned to...
Studies of some components of test weight in Soft White wheat
revealed distinct subclass differences. Wheat kernels of Soft White
more completely occupied a given volume than did kernels of White
Club. The Soft White kernels were larger and had a higher density
than the White Club kernels. Because of...
This study characterizes the production of hypogeous sporocarps (broadly referred to as truffles) by ectomycorrhizal fungi within Douglas-fir dominated forests that are considered typical of those found on the west slopes of the central Cascade mountains in Oregon. Three aspects of sporocarp production are addressed: 1) the distribution of total...
The herring stocks in the Northeast Atlantic were nearly fished to
extinction in the 1970s. This collapse is usually attributed to advances in
fishing technology. The impact of productivity shocks depends critically on
how sensitive the fish catch is to the size of the stock. If the catch per unit...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative index characterization of shrimp farms in Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. There has been considerable work carried out on shrimp farming in South East Asia with emphasis on biology, environmental factors, management and trade issues but much less work on the...
The purpose of this research is to model and measure shadow prices for quota that are not only vessel-specific but also conditioned upon the fisher's own quota holdings and individual circumstances regarding fishing effort. Shadow prices reflect the scarcity value of quota to each particular fisher and can be used...