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Three Essays on Antidumping Duties and Risk Factors Affecting International Seafood Trade
(2011-11-08)
This dissertation includes three essays to address influences of the antidumping policy, price risk, and exchange risk in the US seafood import market. In the first chapter, I attempt to evaluate the effect of trade diversion ...
A Spatial Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Subsidized Housing and Urban Sprawl on Property Values
(2011-05-04)
Property owners often resist the idea of siting public or subsidized housing in their neighborhood. The notion that subsidized housing exerts a negative externality effect on adjacent properties has been investigated ...
Portable Sawmills – A Small Scale Microenterprise Development
(2011-01-12)
A Cobb-Douglas cost function of portable sawmill industry for United States based sawmill owners was estimated using cross-sectional data with two inputs and capital. The elasticity of the output (bf) to total variable ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2011-04-29)
This dissertation consists of three essays in housing, trade, and time series econometrics. The first essay empirically investigates cointegrating relation between housing prices and economic fundamental variables in the ...
Three Essays on International Trade
(2011-05-06)
This dissertation is composed of three essays. The first essay assesses the impact of agricultural support policies on refined sugar exports. A theoretically consistent gravity model is extended to include the spatial ...
Essays on Applied International Economics and Finance
(2011-04-06)
Studies in international economics and finance have become increasingly important in understanding the ways economies are integrated. This dissertation comprises three essays on this topic. The first essay investigates ...
Total Elasticities for Meat in China: The Importance of Cross-commodity Effects
(2011-12-15)
Several major trends have been driving the increase of meat consumption in China. By using equilibrium displacement modeling, we focused on the factors of rapid income growth and a pork price subsidy. In a single commodity ...
Essays on Applied Resource Economics Using Bioeconomic Optimization Models
(2011-11-30)
With rising demographic growth, there is increasing interest in analytical studies that
assess alternative policies to provide an optimal allocation of scarce natural resources while
ensuring environmental sustainability. ...
Three Essays on Market and Non-Market Factors Affecting International Seafood Trade
(2011-03-25)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate essays investigating market and non-market factors affecting international seafood trade. The first essay analyzes the impact of food safety standards and management systems ...