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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Trade Restrictions"”.
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POSSIBLE LINKAGES BETWEEN TRADE RESTRICTIONS AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
… investigates possible linkages between trade restrictions and workplace safety. Working conditions in a developing country are often kept poor or inhumane for the purpose of low-cost comparative advantage in low-skilled labor-intensive production. Such conditions which may affect …
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Essays on Environmental Regulation
… regulations around the world: equity-efficiency tradeoffs, incomplete information, and significant ecologic and economic uncertainty across time and space. First, I analyze the efficiency and distributional consequences of trade restrictions in environmental permit markets, I study common trade …
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Jefferson's Abomination in the Valley: A Study of the Economic Effects of the Embargo of 1807 on Louisville's Frontier Economy
… of the country as a result of Thomas Jefferson's trade restrictions. Louisville is the focus area because it is not only representative of the Ohio Valley and the interior but also because it marked the end of civilization and the beginning of the frontier. Distinctions between class, economic …
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An econometric model of the world palm oil market and policy implications for the United States
… and the rest of the world under alternative trade restrictions and policy instruments are assessed, The first objective of this analysis is related to specifying, developing, and obtaining estimates of the structural parameters of the import demand and producer-export supply relationships for …
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Gene drives and international trade : an analysis of World Trade Organization rules and their governance of ecosystem-altering organisms
… consequences, including for international trade. Given compelling potential applications in disease mitigation and pest management, countries may develop and release these self-propagating products of biotechnology in the near future. Such products will cross international borders through …
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The molecular epidemiology of bluetongue virus in northern Colorado
Economic losses due to trade restrictions based on BTV have been estimated to exceed $125 million U.S. per year in the U.S., and have been estimated to exceed $3 billion per year worldwide. Despite many years of study, the overwintering mechanism of bluetongue virus (BTV) has never been elucidated …
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Three essays on fisheries economics
… within a stochastic bioeconomic model, the tradeoffs between current and future consumption are clear. The second theme explored in this essay is the efficiency of tradable permits system in the presence of trade restrictions. The third theme explored in this dissertation is efficiency in …
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The production of foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particles in the plant Nicotiana benthamiana: a potential candidate vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease
… are taken to contain outbreaks; quarantine and trade restrictions are imposed and herds with infected individuals are culled to prevent the spread of the disease. Consequently, outbreaks of the disease have drastic implications for agriculture and social economies which can be devastating for …
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The burden and control of bovine tuberculosis in endemic settings
… and the cost of control efforts and trade restrictions. However, the true burden of bTB is unknown and the actual public health risk of bTB remains unspecified in many production systems and settings. Globally, there are divergent control measures in place for bovine TB with little …
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Shaping the Next Generation Air Transportation System with an Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision Making Model
… the involved airlines in regard to accepted slot trades and flight plans. More specifically, the APCDM is enhanced to include the following: a. The revised model accommodates continuing flights, where some flight cannot depart until a prerequisite flight has arrived. Such a situation arises, for …
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Slot-Exchange Mechanisms and Weather-Based Rerouting within an Airspace Planning and Collaborative Decision-Making Model
… bartering of slot exchanges involving airline trade offers for arrival/departure slots at an arrival airport that is affected by the Ground Delay Program (GDP), while simultaneously considering issues related to sector workloads, airspace conflicts, as well as overall equity concerns among the …