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Three Essays on Agricultural Prices, Markets, and Trade
(2015-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays to address price analysis, market response as well as trade effects of the agricultural commodities, in both China and U.S. The first chapter examines the demand impacts following a ...
Credit Delivery Analyses and Climate Impact Issues: The Case of Ghana and Southeastern US
(2015-07-22)
The first paper examines the impact of the microfinance sector on small/ micro enterprises in Ghana. The study uses 2007 BEEPS data and employs the financing constraints approach to study if the presence of microfinance ...
Three Essays on China's Agricultural Trade
(2015-07-27)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the context of the appreciation pressure that is faced by the Chinese currency (Renminbi, RMB) in recent years, using an Equilibrium Displacement Model, Chapter 1 studies ...
Research on Aquacultural Trade and Policy - Three Essays on China’s Aquatic Product Trade
(2015-07-27)
This dissertation consists of three chapters, discussing the issue of international aquatic product trade. The purpose of first chapter is to determine the effects of American antidumping duty on China’s shrimp market by ...
Essays in International Trade: Cotton, Seafood, and Meat
(2018-11-26)
The dissertation consists of three essays as three chapters and it focuses on agricultural trade. Each essay studies a separate agricultural product and applies a different research method.
Chapter 1 applies a Muth-type ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Crime
(2019-07-30)
This dissertation consists of three essays on economics of crime. The first chapter
investigates the extent to which variations in temperature affect crime rates in the southeastern
states within a typical empirical ...
Factors Affecting Markets, Economic Growth and Economic Development: Three Essays in Applied Economics
(2016-08-01)
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This dissertation consists of three essays. The topics of the essays are not necessary related, and each essay constitutes a chapter in this dissertation. The first chapter presents farm and retail models ...
Three Essays on the Chinese Housing Market: Amenities, Environment, and Policies
(2016-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of amenities, environmental change, and development policy on the Chinese housing market. Chapter 1 examines the impact of the city water system improvement ...
Banking Efficiency Analysis for Two Special Years during Recent Financial Crisis
(2016-12-10)
This paper covered almost thirty thousand groups of commercial banks’ quarterly data in 2007 and 2011 to analyze the influence of 2008 financial crisis on banking performance, and investigate if there is any difference of ...
Three Essays on Non-Market Valuation Applications
(2015-12-10)
This dissertation is organized into three topics using nonmarket valuation applications. The first topic examines the demand behavior of recreational participants to the coastal counties in Alabama and Mississippi and ...