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The purpose of this paper is to provide background information
and some statistics relevant to a discussion on trade policy. The
focus is primarily on the impacts of imports on U.S. employment
levels. The paper consists of four parts, the first three of which
are theoretical in nature.
Parts 1...
The purpose of this thesis is to provide an estimate of sunk costs in the U.S. brewing industry and analyze the relationships among sunk costs, advertising, and concentration. The estimation procedures involves three steps: (1) estimation of the market value of new and used plant and equipment per barrel of...
It is the purpose of this study to examine some statistically-oriented considerations which may facilitate
portfolio selection policies. Many of the preliminary
topics discussed parallel and extend the notions of
W. J. Baumol, H. M. Markowitz, and W. F. Sharpe.
The crux of the study introduces a quadratic programming
algorithm...
Published October 1981. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
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...
This research studies the effect of corruption on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in various industries. We use industry level data of US Investments abroad in 60 host countries from 1990 to 2002. We explore the questions of whether corruption is an impediment to FDI and if so, how does this...
Foreign direct investment (FDI), the movement of long-term capital, has been increasingly important in the world economy since the early 1970s. Its growth rate outpaces that of trade in goods and gross national product (GNP) during the same period. Prior literature mostly focuses on either the causes (determinants) of FDI...