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  • An investment valuation and risk assessment of high-density sweet cherry orchards

    Creator:
    West, Tyler T.
    Abstract:
    A supply and demand model for the sweet cherry industry in Wasco County, Oregon and two investment valuation models are used to value and assess the risk of investments in high-density sweet cherry orchard establishment and production from the producer perspective. The supply and demand estimation finds the cherry price...
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    Masters Thesis
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    would like to acknowledge my thesis committee, Clark F. Seavert, Dr. James Sterns, and Dr. Jeff Reimer

  • Multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior

    Creator:
    Choi, Jangho
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    The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
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    Dissertation

  • Exchange rate dynamics and the trade balance : the case of Sri Lanka

    Creator:
    Weerasooriya, Senal A.
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    Relationship between the exchange rate and the trade balance is a key component for a developing nation. Although, in theoretical sense, depreciation of currency would result in an improvement in the trade balance, sluggish response of trade flows to changes in currency has prompted researches to look in to the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    various macroeconomic concepts. I would like to thank the remaining committee members Professor Jeff

  • Price-Endogenous Farm Technology Adoption and Ex-Ante Economic Impact Assessment

    Creator:
    Cho, Seojin
    Abstract:
    Technological growth in agriculture increases crop output but it could lower output price in the market. Economic impact assessment in ex-ante analysis usually does not include these indirect supply responses, which can overestimate the economic potential of new technology. This dissertation provides an integrated farm-level ex-ante impact assessment model to...
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    Dissertation
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    like to thank my committee members, Dr. Jeff Reimer, Dr. Kassahun Melesse, Dr. Yong Chen, and Dr

  • Assessment of Climate Impacts and Adaptation Measures in Agriculture: An Integrated Modelling Approach

    Creator:
    Adhikari, Roshan
    Abstract:
    The predicted effects of climate change call for methods to assess the performance of agricultural systems across economic, environmental, and social dimensions over different spatial and temporal scales. For research and development to have an impact on system efficiency, potential impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies need to be...
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    Dissertation
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    thank my committee members, Dr. Jeff Reimer, Dr. Todd Pugatch, Dr. Kassahun Melesse, and Dr. Penelope

  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
    Abstract:
    Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such heterogeneity within a narrowly defined industry...
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    Dissertation
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    Reimer and Dr. Steve Buccola, for their valuable comments, discussion, and suggestion on my articles

  • Essays on determinants of human capital accumulation

    Creator:
    Sherpa, Maya
    Abstract:
    This dissertation is composed of two self-contained essays, which examine two different factors that could affect human capital accumulation in a developing country. Both essays utilize cross-sectional data from the second round (2003/04) of national level household survey from Nepal. In the first essay, I estimate the impact of remittances...
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    Dissertation
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    Grosskopf, Dr. Jeff Reimer, Dr. Elizabeth Schroeder, and Dr. Thinh Nguyen for serving on my committee

  • Three essays on food security, food assistance, and migration

    Creator:
    Lewin, Paul A.
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    This dissertation's three essays explore the determinants of food insecurity for rural farm households, the influence of rainfall variability and long-run changes in rainfall levels on the migration decisions of working-age household heads, and the distributional impacts in core and periphery regions of food assistance to households in the hinterland....
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    Dissertation
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    committee Munisamy Gopinath, Steve Buccola, Jeff Reimer, and Jonathan Kaplan, for kindly offering their

  • Three essays on international trade and regional productivity

    Creator:
    Moon, Hanpil
    Abstract:
    A firm's productivity is composed of two parts: pure technical change and location-specific (agglomeration) externalities. Regional productivity is thus an aggregation of productivity of firms producing similar goods and located in a given region. International trade can affect both components of regional productivity. First, trade openness in a closed economy...
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    Dissertation
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    acknowledge Dr. Bruce A. Weber, Dr. Jeff Reimer, Dr. Christian Langpap, and Dr. Russell E. Ingham for

  • Political economy and trade effects of invasive species regulation : the case of noxious weeds

    Creator:
    Min, He
    Abstract:
    Many non-native weed pests of food, fiber, and nursery crops pose threats to U.S. environment and agriculture. Noxious weed regulations play an important role in preventing the introduction and spread of non-native plants, thereby protecting the local biodiversity, environment and economic activities. However, these regulations could also hamper agricultural trade....
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    . Reimer and Dr. Jonathan Kaplan , for their invaluable comments and suggestions in this dissertation