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Recent Portfolio Investment and Central Bank Policy in Thailand
(2009-02-23)
The present study investigates the dynamic adjustment of portfolio investment to monetary and fiscal variables in Thailand over recent years. The analysis reveals that the exchange rate, inflation, and the government ...
Irrigation, Income Distribution, and Industrialized Agriculture in the Southeast United States
(2009-02-23)
Improved availability of irrigation water in agriculture can stabilize crop yields and therefore incomes for adopting producers. However, because of unequal distribution of access to land and water, irrigation may have ...
Selected Topics in Alabama’s Environmental Horticulture Industry: The Economic Impact of Alabama's Green Industry and Migrant Labor in Alabama's Horticulture Industry
(2008-09-09)
The environmental horticulture industry, known as the green industry, constitutes the states highest selling and fastest growing agricultural crop sector. The author, in collaboration with Deacue Fields and Kenneth tilt, ...
Consumer Preferences for Watermelons: A Conjoint Analysis
(2008-09-09)
Almost 5,000 years after the first recorded watermelon harvest, people are still harvesting and eating watermelons today. However, different people prefer different attributes of the fruit. The main purpose of this study ...
Community Capacity and Rural Housing in the Black Belt
(2008-09-09)
The rural West Alabama Black Belt region faces many challenges in addressing low-income home construction and rehabilitation needs. In nearby metropolitan Tuscaloosa, non-governmental housing service providers draw on ...
Tilapia Fingerling Production in Honduras
(2008-09-09)
The availability of good quality seed continues to be a factor limiting aquaculture development. The lack of an adequate supply of all-male tilapia fingerlings has been identified by fish farmers as a principal constraint ...
Growth Machine Meets Conservation: A Stakeholder Analysis of the Black Warrior and Cahaba River Watersheds
(2008-09-09)
Results from a stakeholder analysis of two central-Alabama watersheds—-the Black Warrior River watershed and Cahaba River watershed—-are presented in this thesis. Stakeholder opinions, perspectives, concerns, interests ...
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 ...
The Economics of Water and Land Resource Use
(2009-12-17)
Natural resource economics deals with the supply, demand, and the management of the earth’s natural resources. It brings together different broad areas in human economics, earth science, and natural ecosystems to create ...
Trade Adjustments to Exchange Rates in Regional Economic Integration: Argentina and Brazil
(2008-09-09)
Currency devaluation is one of the most commonly used economic policies when a country faces a trade imbalance. By making exports more competitive in world markets and imports more expensive in terms of local currency, ...