The influence of income levels on the demand for consumer services is examined. For twenty-six categories of services income elasticities are established. Also the influence of price and other variables, on the quantity demanded of a consumer service are investigated. The primary aim is to...

Master of Arts

Doctor of Philosophy

This dissertation presents two essays on endogenous growth and renewable resources. The first essay explores the role of renewable resources in a tractable model of endogenous growth driven by horizontal and vertical innovation in the closed economy. The model is tractable in that it yields a...

xvi, 411 p. : ill., maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

xi, 87 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

x, 132 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.

Emerging markets are more volatile and face different types of shocks, in size and nature, compared to their developed counterparts. Accurate identification of the stochastic properties of shocks is difficult. We show evidence suggesting that uncertainty about the underlying stochastic process...

This dissertation concerns cross-country consumption risk sharing in a long-run perspective. Financial integration, empirically measured by cross-country holdings of assets and liabilities, has increased dramatically in the past two decades. But what can explain the lack of cross-country risk...

The recent auctions literature has devoted much attention to mechanisms that allow package bidding: all-or-nothing bids for sets of items. Introducing package bids can improve efficiency by reducing the bidders "exposure" risk of winning undesirable combinations of items. However, package bids...