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The impact of trade and policy liberalization on Argentina's agricultural sector: technology adoption in a dynamic model

pineiro, valeria - 2006

of the agricultural sector, with a focus on adoption of technology. It investigates with the help of econometric tools … last 20 years Argentina experienced extraordinary changes in its agricultural production. Both production and productivity … trade bloc (FTAA), could have on agriculture. The results leave us with the idea that for the agricultural sector it is …

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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Alevy, Jonathan Eliot - 2006

Behavioral economics aims to provide more realistic psychological foundations for economic models. Experimental methods can contribute to this effort by providing the ability to identify causal processes and motivations that can be confounded in field settings. The essays in this dissertation...

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Essays on Split Estate in Energy Development

Fitzgerald, Timothy - 2008

Taking advantage of randomly-assigned federal mineral rights, the first essay establishes the discount that mineral developers place on oil and gas leases with divided ownership. This discount is interpreted as an expectation of reduced profits as a result of transaction costs incurred in...

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Optimal Contracting and Vertical Coordination in the Beef Industry: An Assessment of Value-Based Pricing

Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur - 2007

This dissertation explores the nature and scope of vertical coordination in the U.S. beef industry. From the perspective of the incomplete contract theory of the industrial organization literature, this dissertation first provides a theoretical economic explanation for the traditional and...

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Antidumping Effects in the Presence of Collusion in an Upstream Market: the case of U.S. frozen shrimp imports from Thailand

Suchato, Ravissa - 2009

Many studies have shown a relationship between antidumping duty and collusion. These studies, however, only focus on collusion in output (downstream) market, i.e. collusion between import competing firms and exporters, or among import competing firms. This dissertation explores how the...

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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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Information Technology and Rural Market Performance in Central India

Goyal, Aparajita - 2008

How do improvements in information impact market performance? This dissertation examines the effect of an innovative initiative launched by a private company in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Beginning in October 2000, it set up 1700 internet kiosks and 45 warehouses that provide...

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Gains from Contracting for US Hog Growers

uddin, mohammed helal - 2008

-agent theory, with special attention to the issues that are important in the agricultural sector in general and hog production in …-known Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) for 2004. In order to do this, contract growers' gains from contracting are measured …

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Pricing Carbon: Allowance Price Determination in the EU ETS

Hintermann, Beat - 2008

The allowance price in Phase I of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) followed a peculiar path, increasing from €7 in 2005 to over €30 in 2006, before crashing, recovering and ultimately finishing at zero by the end of 2007. I examine if the price can be explained by...

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Costly Renewable Resource Management and International Trade

Bergeron, Nancy - 2007

Renewable resource management is necessary to avoid the dissipation ofinter-temporal rents due to open access exploitation. In reality management iscostly, which implies that the first best solution is not appropriate. Managementcosts must be considered explicitly in optimization problems, to...

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