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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Welfare Analysis"”.
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A Stochastic Welfare Analysis of United States Rice Policy
… the relevance of the framework of stochastic welfare analysis, showing how government agricultural policies may improve economic welfare by reducing price risk faced by farmers. This study contributes to provide an empirical evidence on the magnitude of potential economic welfare gains of …
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The Malaysian rice policy: Welfare analysis of current and alternative programs
… of government intervention policies and welfare impacts on related interest groups. The impact of current and alternative policy options are evaluated using an inter-commodity linkage model.
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Essays on Expectations and Welfare Analysis of Bargaining Models, and Social Network
Cotutelle-Promotion: Universität Bielefeld und Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
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A Dynamic Welfare Analysis of Price Stabilization Policies in the Korean Rice Market
… and on the economic efficiency criteria. Welfare measurement methods are developed in a short-run and longer-run context. The welfare impacts become smaller if the longer-run measure is used because the longer-run measure takes into account the adjustment costs which come from factor …
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Sugar and Rice Trade between the United States and Cuba Trade Potential and Welfare Analysis
… trade between both countries would increase the welfare in both countries. This Thesis has the approach to look at the impacts on the commodities of rice and sugar, and the trade sanctions between the United States and Cuba.</p> <p>Cuba is a net importer of its food supply; therefore, agriculture …
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Welfare analysis of Guatemala in the Central American Common Market: An application of the new international trade theory
Traditional theory of customs union predicts an ultimate failure of integration efforts in semi-industrialized regions (SIC). A review of economic literature published during the last ten years suggests that there are new paradigms in international trade which can be applied specifically to the …
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Is economic growth desirable? A welfare economic analysis of the Thai experience
… as it is the best means to increase social welfare and enhancing social welfare is a rational objective of society and governments. Economic growth increases social welfare through improving health outcomes, food intake and access to other basic needs. However, the costs of achieving …
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Trade and Welfare Effects of Japan's Revised Import Protocol for American Apples
… own-price elasticity for apples in an applied welfare analysis of Japan's new import protocol, which was introduced in 2005 and eliminated the costly and burdensome fire blight regulations. The per-capita Japanese welfare gain is estimated at $1.47 to $4.53, much lower than the sector-wide loss …
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Assessing the Potential of a Locally Adapted Conservation Agriculture Production System to Reduce Rural Poverty in Uganda's Tororo District
… for researchers that wish to conduct a detailed welfare analysis as part of a larger survey of a small geographic area of interest. Researchers studying context-specific technologies or interventions can incorporate the survey-based SAE of poverty approach to conduct detailed poverty analyzes of …
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Essays on Consumer Behavior and Demand Analysis
… theories dictate and the deviation may affect welfare analysis. The first market is a non-durable experience good market. Using empirical scanner data,we show evidence that consumers? switching rates among brands are higher than what brand characteristics and consumer heterogeneity can explain. …
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Essays on optimal monetary policy under rule-of-thumb behaviour by price setters
… the feasibility of optimal monetary policy analysis within a linear-quadratic framework. We derive utility-based objective functions for the monetary authority and analyse a range of optimal commitment policies. We perform welfare analysis in order to rank the range of optimal commitment …
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Essays on financial frictions, misallocation and development dynamics
… slower convergence. The second chapter is a welfare analysis of the well-documented depressed migrant wage in China from a dynamic perspective. The depressed migrant wage per se attracts fewer migrant workers and lowers the migrants' consumption and the aggregate output. However, it …
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Essays on Public and Environmental Economics
… incentive programs. However the effect and welfare analysis of these policy instruments remain ambiguous. In the first chapter of my dissertation, we estimate a dynamic model of households investment decisions on rooftop PV systems to understand the impact of these programs on residential …
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Essays in public and urban economics
… with lower level of air pollution. Our welfare analysis suggests that air quality deteriorations induced by the 2010 gasoline sanctions are associated with $11 to $16 billion aggregate reduction in housing values in 2011.
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Essays on labor market inequality
… find that heterogeneity in risk aversion affects welfare analysis through the covariance of risk aversion and consumption drops, which measures the extent to which larger risks are borne by more risk tolerant workers. Calibrations suggest that this covariance effect may be large.
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Strategic evaluation of environmental metrics : making use of life cycle inventories
… to rank alternatives based on a more transparent analysis. XL.CA employs a set of models with the following features: ( 1) A life cycle inventory model exposes the subjective elements of accounting for material recycling. (2) An impact model translates inventories into impacts based on a …
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Essays on real life allocation problems
… for the housing offices. Then we include the welfare of the housing office in the welfare analysis and redefine the Pareto efficiency notion. We show that every fair matching is Pareto efficient. Based on the extended Pareto efficiency definition, the DA mechanism is the unique Pareto …
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Essays on the Financial Sector Inefficiencies
… sector. Excess risk taking behavior deteriorates welfare of both depositors and banks in a stochastic economy. I show that a restricted social planner is able to improve welfare by limiting the leverage in the economy. In planner's problem, robust banking system is more resilient against the …
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