The relationship of openness, growth and total factor productivity is investigated empirically using panel regressions for 48 countries. This study tests a variety of openness measures, including the ratio of trade (exports plus imports), imports, exports and primary exports to GDP. We also study the effects of the interaction of...
The competition or rivalry for the use of water resources
among economic sectors of the Pacific Northwest and among geographical
regions of the western United States has intensified in recent
years. This rivalry and the long run prospects for water shortages
have increased the demand for research concerning the productivity...
The competition or rivalry for the use of water resources
among economic sectors of the Pacific Northwest and among geographical
regions of the western United States has intensified in recent
years. This rivalry and the long run prospects for water shortages
have increased the demand for research concerning the productivity...
This thesis investigates the dynamic efficiency of emission standards and
Pigouvian taxes in the regulation of pollution where research and development (R&D)
and the technology level are endogenous. A key element of the analysis is a comparison
of the efficiency between instances in which the regulator can and cannot commnit...
Local government officials and county planners may find descriptive information concerning the economic structure of each Oregon county useful for planning for future economic development. Specifically, citizens of counties and planning districts need to know whether industries in their area are growing or declining and in which industries a comparative...
Although the limitations of consumer surplus have become widely known, there exists a lack of studies which
present in a coherent framework recent developments in estimating Hicksian welfare measures. This study attempts to fill partially this gap by analyzing some theoretical and empirical aspects in the estimation of exact welfare...
Auctions are used to solve resource allocation problem between many agents and many items in real-world settings. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is possible for selfish agents to manipulate the system for their own interest at the expense of the social welfare. Such manipulation can be prevented using the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves...
The work upon which this publication is based was supported by funds provided by the United States Department of the Interior as authorized under the Water Resources Research Act of 1964, as amended. OWRR Project No. B-016-ORE.
In its simplest form, the process of diagnosis is a decision-making process in which the diagnostician performs a sequence of tests culminating in a diagnostic decision. For example, a physician might perform a series of simple measurements (body tem- perature, weight, etc.) and laboratory measurements (white blood count, CT scan,...
Anadromous fish populations in the Pacific Northwest have
undergone substantial change throughout the past century.
Historical periods of over-harvest and the construction of
numerous dams throughout the region have contributed to declines
in the runs of naturally spawning stocks. Management efforts to
rebuild fish populations have focused on the restriction...
Linear economic models were utilized to predict effects of various
environmental control policies on individual firms. Four different
linear models were specified and in some instances relatively
minor changes in specification were made which resulted in additional
sub-models. Models varied as to numbers and types of fixed
factors, variable cost...
Farm machinery continues to increase in its importance to the agricultural sector. Depreciation, the decline in value of a durable asset over time, represents one of the largest costs of agricultural production. The general objectives of this study were to update and expand the number of Remaining Value (RV) functions...
The main objective of this study was to estimate the demand for and net economic benefits from Oregon salmon sport fishing. The travel cost method was used as the primary technique for demand analysis. Several empirical estimates of consumer surplus per trip and per fish were obtained from different estimation...
A model of agricultural decision making is developed and tested in this thesis. The expected value of utility evaluated under alternative outcomes is directly maximized in a nonlinear programming model. Two features of the model distinguished it from traditional risk programming models. First, alternative attitudes towards the assumption of risk...
An analytical algorithm to formulate a sparser set of adjacency constraints than the conventional algorithm is proposed. Utilizing matrix algebra applied to an adjacency matrix, constraints are systematically and efficiently derived by the proposed algorithm. The proposed algorithm is proved to provide a true set of adjacency constraints in the...
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This paper investigates the potential welfare gains resulting from variable parking fees in the presence of heterogeneous agents. We begin by defining a modified linear city model with two lots located at separate distances from a central business district, and two types of agents with heterogeneous values of time. Agents...
This dissertation consists of three papers studying optimization, conservation
and valuation of contingent claims in economic resource nianagement under
uncertainty.
In the first paper the Markovian optinial policies are studied for resource
management in a finite time horizon. Under sonic conditions, in particular, when
the prices are stochastic and there...
Crown profile was modeled using a system of equations with three components.
The first equation predicts the maximum crown width of an open grown tree based on
the tree's diameter at breast height. The second equation modifies maximum crown
width to represent the largest width of the crown in stand...
The objective of this monograph is to illustrate how the elements of an investment analysis are brought together to form a basis for sound decisions on new plant investments. These elements include financial analysis, raw material analysis, and market analysis.
The financial analysis consists of determining the initial investment required...
The impact of recent severe droughts throughout the United States, the potential for climate change to intensify the frequency and severity of drought, and discussion about the future of government assistance in agriculture highlight the need for a transition from drought as ‘disaster’ to drought as ‘managed risk’. However, guidance...
Volume I: TREES (Timber Resource Economic Estimation System), a forest management and harvest scheduling model, is comprehensively described in the first of a four-volume series. Even- or uneven-aged forest inventories form basic resource units (BRUs), entered by age class or size and diameter classes; stocking level; and management intensity. Management...
This bulletin has two intended uses: 1) to report the findings of a small rural region input-output model estimated for Tillamook County, Oregon, and 2) to explain how an input-output model can be interpreted and used. The report was written with a minimum of technical jargon and mathematics to help...
This thesis is an attempt to develop a theoretical microeconomic
model which can be used to examine the short-run demand for the
timeliness of farm machinery repairs. This analysis focuses on
the timing of the repair after a breakdown has occurred.
The nonstochastic model developed allows the incorporation of
the...
The cattle industry in the Pacific Northwest is characterized by a large number of producers. Individual contributions to the market have little effect in moderating potential fluctuations in the prices received for the various classes of cattle. Price volatility is of constant concern to producers in planning future production, with...
Tropospheric ozone is a pollutant which has detrimental effects on crop yields. The level of ambient ozone can be reduced by environmental policy changes and enforcement. The purpose of this study was to estimate the welfare effects of such changes in ambient ozone using recently available plant response data and...
The algorithm RLS-PLUS was developed to yield solutions to the
multivariate control problem of diameter and species optimization for mixed conifer
and hardwood stands. The problem is specified with twenty-five state variables
consisting of five species groups with four merchantable diameter classes and one
unmerchantable class. This gives twenty diameter...
Strip thinning is recognized as a way of commercial thinning
young-growth stands. strip thinning has been used worldwide. The
purpose of this study was to explicitly evaluate the costs and benefits
associated with skyline strip thinning in young Douglas-fir
(Pseudotuqo menzesii Franco) stands in the Pacific Northwest and to
compare...
To protect and restore environmental quality, efficient and effective conservation policies are needed. Designing policies require a sound understanding of the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of conservation programs. This dissertation consists of three essays, and addresses several issues relevant to these two...
The thesis presents a useful and effective blend of insights about macroeconomic business fluctuations and the effects of government expenditure in economic growth in Korea.
In Chapter I, I show that the joint behavior of key Korean macroeconomic variables is consistent with traditional Keynesian interpretation of macroeconomic business fluctuations by...
Objective of this study was to compare accuracy of
several travel cost methods, by employing Monte Carlo
simulations in the single site framework. Estimates from
five methods were compared to the "true" travel cost
coefficient and "true" consumer surplus. Each method was
ranked, using the root mean squared error (RMSE)...
The main objective of this study was to offer an alternative methodology for
forest sector modeling in developing economies. To this effect, a policy preference
function was developed and estimated using data from the forest sector of the Cote
d'Ivoire.
The justification for this alternative framework for forest sector analysis...
To increase the knowledge needed to successfully implement the ecosystem-based approach to fishery management, this dissertation investigates important issues within the economics of choice and the economics of displacement. In particular, a discrete choice model of the fishing location decision in the Newport, Oregon bottom trawl groundfish fishery is estimated...
About 300 local businesses and industries in Clatsop County were interviewed and asked questions about their sales and purchases. The information they supplied from this survey was used to develop the economic model. This publication describes some of the findings of the study and how the model can be used...
Malheur County is located in the southeast corner of Oregon and consists of about 64 million acres of which 260,000 acres is irrigated. Groundwater contamination has been found in a 115,000 acre area in Northeastern Malheur County. The main source of the groundwater contamination is agricultural practices. The overall objective...
Private land-use decisions can have important effects on private and public welfare. Market-based policies to regulate land use have the potential to move the privately-optimal allocation of land closer to what is socially optimal. To implement these policies in the Rocky Mountain states, it is necessary to understand the effects...
This thesis investigated the contribution of the forest to neighboring property
prices and explored the possible impacts from different neighboring forest characteristics
with the hedonic property price model.
The quadratic Box-Cox model was applied to choose the proper functional form.
The square root model was chosen to be the interpretable...
Harvest scheduling and stand level optimization have
generally been regarded as separable problems. Some
studies have attempted to jointly optimize a wide range of stand treatments and a forest wide harvest schedule using combinations of mathematical programming techniques. The mathematical programming forest level techniques presume perfect information on production, costs...
A basic tradeoff to consider when designing a distributed data-mining framework is the need for a compromise between the cost of communication and computation resources and the accuracy of the mining results. This is essentially a decision of whether it is more efficient to communicate all of the data to...
Agricultural economists have devoted considerable attention to
the financial stress situation of agricultural producers. Many
studies have been conducted in various regions of the U.S. in an
attempt to better understand the causes of the problem. The costs
associated with farm financial stress imply corresponding benefits to
be realized by...
Contract harvest operations have become the preferred approach to reducing the largest cost component of timber production through free market competition amongst logging contractors bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of harvesting operations not previously studied for steep slope thinning harvests...
Chile has experienced great success in terms of economic growth in the last decades. This growing economy brings changes in the Chilean health care system. Its health care system was primarily funded by state sources until 1981, when a major reform was introduced that established new rules for the health...