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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Elasticity of Substitution"”.
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Two Applied Economics Essays: Trade Duration in U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports & Goods-Time Elasticity of Substitution in Household Food Production for SNAP participants and nonparticipants
… the factors that impact the duration of U.S. fresh fruit and vegetable imports. We employ both survival analysis (Kaplan Meier estimates and Cox proportional hazards model) as well as count data models. Our results indicate that SPS treatment requirements positively impact the duration …
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Three essays in international trade
This thesis is a collection of three essays in international trade. Chapter 1 explains how firm heterogeneity and market structure can distort the geography of international trade. By considering only the intensive margin of trade, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity of substitution …
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Institutional quality in the finance-growth nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
… capture both the market and non-market features of institutional quality in order to bring out the full contribution of institutional quality to economic growth within the framework of finance-growth nexus; second, to investigate the role of market and non-market institutions in the …
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Labor Substitution in U.S. Manufacturing
… a translog model designed to estimate the elasticity of substitution between capital, non-production workers, and production workers using U.S. manufacturing data for the period 1988 to 1997. The elasticity of substitution estimates derived from the translog model suggest that production …
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Essays on the Stochastic Behavior of Consumption and Output
This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay, on the stochastic behavior of consumption, examines different formulations of the Euler equation, in order to estimate the intertemporal elasticity of substitution in Brazil during the 1980s. Our findings indicate that the …
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Essays on Price and Time in Trade and Household Production
This dissertation consists of three chapters that estimate the elasticities regarding price and time in trade and household production. Chapters 1 and 2 estimate price elasticities. Chapter 1 estimates the one-factor-one-price elasticity of substitution (OOES)—or how the percentage change in the …
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Integrating efficient investment in human resources and manpower planning in Indonesia
The objectives of this research project were to seek economic theory under which the rate of return and manpower requirement approach are logically consistent with one another and to use this to interpret and explain the empirical results in Indonesia. The rate of return analysis was conducted …
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Economics of military outsourcing
… is concerned with outsourcing the production of defence and military activities to private providers. Theoretical approaches to the issue are reviewed and found to make insufficiently specific predictions to be useful in assessing the scope for outsourcing. Instead four empirical analyses are …
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Essays on the Effects of Immigration on Labor Markets
This thesis consists of three chapters on the effects of immigration on labor markets. The first chapter studies the effects of an informal labor supply shock on the host regions, the second chapter investigates the spillover effects on non-host regions through the production network, and the third …
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A dynamic life cycle model for Germany with unemployment uncertainty
… analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a dynamic and stochastic life cycle model. The intertemporal optimization is based on Dynamic Programming with a backward recursion algorithm. The implemented uncertainty is not based on income …
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Essays on Urban Economics
Second part of thesis explores the connection between the property tax and urban sprawl. While the tax's depressing effect on improvements reduces population density, spurring the spatial expansion of cities, a countervailing effect from lower dwelling sizes may dominate, raising densities and …
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Three essays on the labor allocation decisions of the modern farm family
The goal of this dissertation is to address the role of government payments in the allocation of off-farm labor through three essays. Government payments have been a part of agriculture since 1933 and at no time has the government stated a policy objective of decreasing the agricultural labor …
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AN APPLICATION OF A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TO FOREIGN TRADE: THE CASE OF SRI LANKA
<p>The purpose of this study is to build a model of the Sri Lankan economy with which to estimate import, export, investment and consumption functions simultaneously and to estimate inverse demand functions of inputs, capital and labor. The model developed takes into account technological changes, …
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VAT Reform in a Developing Country. A CGE Model with an Informal Sector
… redistributive effects and the efficiency gains of broadening the base of the Value Added Tax (VAT) by removing the zero-rating of food. I incorporate an informal retail sector in the supply of goods with two distinctive features: an indirect tax on the informal retail sector and a productivity …
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Bioproducts and environmental quality: biofuels, greenhouse gases, and water quality
Promoting bio-based products is one oft-proposed solution to reduce GHG emissions because the feedstocks capture carbon, offsetting at least partially the carbon discharges resulting from use of the products. However, several life cycle analyses point out that while biofuels may emit less life …
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Informal production in Zimbabwe : a study of production methods and intersectoral relations with special reference to the clothing industry
… and practical, on the growth and evolution of the Zimbabwean informal sector, in particular of informal clothing and footwear production. The aim of the study was to provide a foundation for decision-making in the intersectoral allocation of resources. To this end, a survey was conducted of …
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A Modern Approach for Measuring Environmental, Social, and Governance Preferences
With the rapid growth of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, several concerns have been raised regarding the ability of ESG rating companies and investment managers to accurately and transparently reflect the ESG preferences of individual and institutional clients. To address …
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Essays on international macroeconomics
… The first chapter focuses on the role of private information in the dynamics of sovereign debt yields. I propose a model of sovereign debt and default where information is incomplete: Investors receive private noisy signals about the current state of the economy, resulting in …
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Three essays on international economics
In this dissertation, I offer three essays on international economics with particular concentration on the question of optimal technology sharing along with the adoption of labor replacing technology, the international business cycle model to establish a negative correlation between the relative …
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The economic impact of global climate and tropospheric oxone on world agricultural production
The objective of my thesis is to analyze the economic impact on agriculture production from changes in climate and tropospheric ozone, and related policy interventions. The analysis makes use of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, a computable general equilibrium model of the …
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