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  • Optimal mixture of road network ownership

    Creator:
    Li, Mingxin
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    The present highway funding system, especially fuel taxes, may become less reliable revenue sources in the future, while the transportation public agencies do not have the sufficient financial resources needed to meet the increasing traffic demand. Regarding the socio-economic impact of road privatization, a wide range of approaches and models...
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    Masters Thesis
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    United States, 2004.............. 8 Figure 3-1 Flowchart of the Evolution Model

  • Supply of milk components on U.S. dairy farms : a cost function analysis

    Creator:
    Iizuka, Yoko
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    Masters Thesis
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    hedonic translog model (14). Dummy variables for cow breed, and for the state in which the farm is

  • Essays in applied economics

    Creator:
    Nag, Sharmistha
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    My dissertation concerns two separate issues. The first issue is examined in Essay One, and the second issue is examined in Essays Two and Three. The first essay develops an economic model of the determination of the rental rate of leased farmland in the United States. Particular attention is placed...
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    Dissertation
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    states. An econometric model shows that farmland cash rents have a strongly positive correlation with

  • Regional economic analysis of the U.S. wood remanufacturing industry

    Creator:
    Kingslien, Hal K.
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    This research provides state economic development planners and forest policy makers with new economic information about the wood remanufacturing industry. An overview describes each industry sector's employment, payroll size, and estimates of annual growth rates. This helps planners determine which sectors are likely to provide the most economic benefit to...
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    Dissertation

  • Cost structure of the local telecommunications industry

    Creator:
    Gainutdinova, Olesya
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    Using a panel data set on the local telecommunications companies reporting to the FCC for 1988-95, this paper investigates the subadditivity of the cost function, as well as technical and allocative inefficiency of the U.S. local telephone industry. The subadditivity test on the estimated translog cost function indicates that certain...
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    Dissertation
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    results for the generalized (non-minimum) cost model suggest that capital is being under-employed

  • The elasticity of excess demand for United States crop exports

    Creator:
    Zheng, Xiaojuan
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    The elasticity of excess demand held by foreign buyers of United States agricultural products is critical for understanding the impacts of changes in farm policy and is a parameter that is much debated. The objective of my study is to estimate this parameter for major U.S. export crops, including wheat,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Classical Linear Regression Model In this section I consider reasons why the econometric model

  • The economics of commodity promotion in the hazelnut industry

    Creator:
    Miller, Jason D.
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    The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of commodity promotion activities on the United States' hazelnut farmer's economic welfare. Commodity promotion activities, such as generic advertising and research, are the responsibilities of government mandated commodity commissions, such as the Hazelnut Marketing Board (HMB). The HMB is a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    commodity promotion activities on the United States’ hazelnut farmer’s economic welfare. Commodity

  • Essays on parametric and nonparametric estimation of market structure and tax incidence in the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Pipoblabanan, Chayun
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    This dissertation addresses two main issues involving alcohol markets. In the first, we employ both parametric and nonparametric methods to analyze the market structure and estimate the degree of market power in the U.S. brewing industry. In the nonparametric case, we use the variations in the excise tax to test...
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    Dissertation
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    structural model developed in chapter 2. We find that the effect of federal and state taxes on prices

  • Topics in applied microeconomics : estimating the value of commercial land and testing the efficiency of the U.S. Motor Carrier industry

    Creator:
    Lee, Man-keung
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    This thesis consists of two essays on applied microeconomics issues. The first essay presents a hedonic price econometric model of vacant commercial land. The second essay presents cost frontier analysis on the industry and firm's performance of the U.S. Motor Carrier industry. Our hedonic price econometric model includes two new...
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    Dissertation
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    econometric model of vacant commercial land. The second essay presents cost frontier analysis on the

  • R&D investment and productivity in the U.S. and Canadian food processing sectors

    Creator:
    Chan-Kang, Connie
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    Increased competition brought about by trade liberalization has raised the stakes for improving productivity in U.S. and Canadian food processing. A key element of productivity growth is technological change, which in turn results from R&D investment. The present study employs an econometric model to assess rates of technological change and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    turn results from R&D investment. The present study employs an econometric model to assess rates of