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An analysis of the profiles, motivations, and modes of habitual commodity speculators
Canoles, William Bruce - 1994
The focus of this study was to learn more about a critical commodity market participant, the long term speculator. The speculator's activity broadens a market, creates essential liquidity, and performs an irreplaceable pricing function. Working knowledge of the profiles, motivations, and modes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477806
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A trade simulation analysis of the impacts of United States trade barriers on selected Taiwanese agricultural exports
Bernstein, Boaz - 1992
The main purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate how liberalization of agricultural markets, as emerged from the … liberalization in selected agricultural processed products of importance in U.S.-Taiwanese trade. … agricultural sector and fully abolish trade restrictions on agricultural imports. The second estimates the impact of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477875
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Institutional Structure in Corporate Agriculture
Bhutani, Niti - 2010
In this dissertation, a state-contingent, principal-agent model is developed to examine the institution of input provision by a corporate firm that contracts with agents for the production of a given commodity. "Input provision" entails not only the provision and delivery of key inputs by the...
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Development of China's rural industry and measurement of its productive efficiency at firm level
Song, Xiaojiang
Using 1988-1992 data of 500 rural non-agricultural enterprises, which are collected from four counties of Sichuan …Using 1988-1992 data of 500 rural non-agricultural enterprises, which are collected from four counties of Sichuan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431390
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Equilibrium, efficient-markets, and liquidity in the cash-in-advance model
Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez; Arroyo, Cristino Rodriguez - 1991
The existence of equilibrium is a test of the internal consistency of an economic model. In any model with domestic moneys and dividend-yielding assets, the first question is: will money be dominated by assets in equilibrium? In cash-in-advance models domestic moneys always have positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441845
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Essays on nonstationary time series
Jiang, Bibo; Jiang, Bibo - 2008
In the first chapter, we consider the logistic regression model with an integrated regressor. In particular, we derive the limit distributions of the nonlinear least squares (NLS) estimators and their t-ratios. It is shown that the NLS estimators are generally not efficient. Moreover, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441897
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Essays on decision making
Gilbert, Stanley W.; Gilbert, Stanley W. - 2008
This dissertation includes three essays on decision-making by boundedly rational economic agents. The first essay deals with decision-making by firms where decision-making is costly. The other two essays deal with decision-making by individuals. Taken together, the last two argue that...
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Moving to a direct tax on consumption: Some transitional issues
Sarkar, Shounak Sankar; Sarkar, Shounak Sankar - 1994
The thesis shows two possible ways in which intergenerational redistributions associated with a reform from a comprehensive income tax to a direct consumption tax are affected when the standard models studying this phenomenon are extended.The usual models studying the welfare impact of a direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441903
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Essays on the taxation of capital income
Aemkulwat, Chairat; Aemkulwat, Chairat - 1996
-base and the R+F-base--and the importance of the firm's choices between local debt finance and parent multinational finance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441909
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Institutions and development: Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Nguyen An - 2009
The dissertation is composed of three papers on institutions and development, with special focus on Vietnam. The first paper, "Club Good and Contract Enforcement," investigates the contract enforcement power of the communities whose members participate voluntarily. By investing in club goods,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441917