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The main purpose of this dissertation was to evaluate how liberalization of agricultural markets, as emerged from the Uruguay round of negotiations, alter existing trade patterns. The study provides welfare estimations of full and partial trade liberalization in selected agricultural processed...
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Recently, the call for external auditor reports on client internal control structures has come from many fronts (i.e., Public Oversight Board, GAO, FDIC, etc.). The parties calling for these auditor reports typically assert that these auditor reports will serve to reduce management fraud. Before...
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In this dissertation, the microtheoretic measurement of technical change (TC) is developed as an alternative to the index number approach to total factor productivity (TFP) growth, incorporating recent theoretical developments in dynamic cost functions that shed light on the effects and role of...
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Following Farrell's (1957) definitions of firm's technical and allocative efficiencies and the formulation of composite error stochastic frontier model by Aigner, Lovell and Schmidt (1977), a substantial amount of research work has been performed measuring firm's technical inefficiency using...
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This thesis is in two parts. The first part is an extensive literature survey that summarizes and synthesizes several works on bureaucracy from sociology, business administration, and political science as well as economics, prominently featuring selections from Herbert Simon, Anthony Downs,...
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The theoretical consensus supporting free trade has been challenged in the 1980s by new developments in trade theory …
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In economic models in which agents are asymmetrically informed about the structural parameters of the economy the acquisition or manipulation of information plays a crucial role. The incentive to affect the flow of information is especially important in models in which choice variables, and...
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The thesis consists of two parts. The first two essays deal with issues of infrequent trading of stocks, and the third essay concerns a contract called a right of first refusal (RFR). Based on the Beveridge and Nelson (1981, Journal of Monetary Economics) decomposition of an ARIMA process, the...
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economics. In particular we trace the development of Keynes' thought regarding the integration on money and value theory in … and the General Theory in order to highlight the monetary theory of production, the role that money plays in the formation …
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The objectives of this dissertation is to provide a theory of innovation and technological change incorporating the … technological externalities, in a Cournot Nash game theoretic framework. Process innovation theory has focused predominantly on … homogenous. Findings support the theory that both the noncooperative and the cooperative solution do not yield the socially …
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