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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 ...
Brand Equity among Producers of Chinese Mitten Crab
(2014-03-31)
In the Shanghai area of China there is considerable product differentiation among producers of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis, with as many as 50 brands available in the marketplace. At the same time, the brand ...
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 CGE Modeling, Education Economics and Energy Economics
(2012-08-03)
This dissertation consists of three essays in economics on CGE modeling, education economics and energy economics.
The first essay focuses on quantifying the economic contribution of the automotive industry to ...
Essays on Applied Econometrics: Agriculture and Development
(2014-06-18)
This dissertation explores three topics on agriculture and development using different applied econometric techniques. In the first chapter, Non-linear regression models were used to estimate the effect of own and other ...
Three Essays in Hedonic Housing Price
(2014-08-20)
Chapter 2 attempts to quantify the impacts of green space, by using the hedonic price analysis of the relationship between property values and the green space amenities around the selected single family houses in Delaware ...
Essays on Using Experimental Agronomic Data to Solve Practical Cropping Decision Problems
(2014-05-01)
Across the United States, agronomic research is being conducted that provides agricultural producers with new cropping options; however, without having insight into the profitability or risk associated with the options, ...
Economics of Microbial Inoculants as an Integrated Pest Management Practice in Apple Production
(2012-04-17)
Demographic growth, stricter environmental concerns and regulations, and rising prices
of chemical pesticides emphasize agricultural production alternatives that substitute chemical
input use and increase yields. In ...
Essays on South Africa: Exchange Rates, Bilateral Trade and Inflation
(2012-04-20)
South Africa shows how natural resources can be harnessed to build a successful economy. This success gives rise to peculiar macroeconomic issues that warrant analysis. Chapter one of this dissertation investigates the ...