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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Welfare Effects"”.
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The Welfare Effects of International Remittance Income
This dissertation explores the welfare effects of international remittance income, i.e., income earned by migrant workers and sent back to their home country. Remittance income has increased markedly in the last decade, particularly in the developing world. The primary purpose of this dissertation …
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Three Essays On Welfare Effects Of Government Intervention
… the progress made in the modeling of social welfare with environmental externalities, many questions regarding secondbest biofuel policies, interaction between biofuel policies and finance system, and connection between trade and the environment remain unanswered. To date, the indirect, …
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The Price and Welfare Effects of Airline Alliances
… and empirical evidence for the price and welfare effects of airlines alliances. The first chapter develops a model for the price effects of international airline alliances and empirically tests the predictions. Two substantive claims from the theoretical models are that allied firms, …
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Welfare Effects Of Industrial Policies Under Asymmetric Oligopoly And Endogenous Quality
… the question: Does helping a minor firm reduce welfare? Using a different framework than the existing literature, I examine the following: 1. The welfare effect of a reduction in the R\&D cost parameter induced by ``help'' from the government to one of the firms within a closed economy. 2. The …
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Essays on Welfare Effects of European Union Common Agricultural Policy Changes
Results suggest that the 1992 CAP reform has not reduced farm income. Rather income transfers stayed constant for Greek wheat farmers, while increasing for cotton, corn, sugar beet and livestock producers. The picture is somewhat different for the AGENDA 2000 reform, which lowered income transfers …
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Performance and welfare effects of work restructuring : evidence from telecommunications services
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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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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Measuring Welfare Effects of the US-China Trade War Using General Equilibrium Models
… analysis shows both the US and China's consumer welfare and GDP decreased across all scenarios, with a larger decrease in China. In addition, when exports from China and the United States decrease, there is an increase in exports from the ASEAN region. JEL Classification C68, F13, F11, Keywords …
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Welfare effects of new fire blight control methods on the U.S. apple industry
… equilibrium model, I am able to evaluate the welfare impact to the apple industry. This thesis shows the overwhelming benefits of GM technology over other methods such as microencapsulation of chemicals and biological agents where the cost-reduction benefits of the technology outweigh the …
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Trade and welfare effects of unilateral environmental regulation: The case of Malaysian palm oil
… impacts of domestic environmental policy on the welfare of output and input suppliers are evaluated using a partial vertically integrated model. The model includes structural equations for the supply of and demand for the output and input taking account of the price and quantity effects from the …
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Welfare effects of biofuel policies in the presence of environmental externalities and pre-existing distortions
… and use in the past several years. However, the welfare effect of biofuel policies, specifically the ethanol tax credit for corn ethanol, ethanol import tariff and renewable fuel standard (RFS) mandate has not been adequately examined. Moreover, the environmental impact of these policies, and …
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Transgenic Rice in Asia: A General Equilibrium Assessment of Potential Welfare Effects and Regional Distribution
The unequal distribution of gains from technology between favorable and unfavorable rice environments in Asia can widen if future transgenic rice varieties cannot be adopted in less favored regions. This study investigates the potential economic impacts of three transgenic rice technologies: …
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Ex-Ante Welfare Effects From Scale-Neutral Productivity Growth for Semi-Subsistence Orphan Crops: Genetically Modified Cassava in Sub-Sahara Africa
… bias. Conventional EDM may overestimate total welfare effects for GM cassava in Benin at significantly high probability, may lead to a point estimate of producers' welfare effects substantially different from that of an alternative model, and may slightly underestimate welfare gains for …
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
The objective of this study was to analyze the welfare effects of Mexican tomato export policies. A voluntary import quota and production and export subsidies were used for the estimation of welfare impacts on Mexican consumers, producers and the government budget. Welfare effects were evaluated …
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An Evaluation of Pakistan's Rice Trade Policy: A Case Study of Basmati Rice
This study aims to estimate the welfare effects of the export tax imposed on Pakistan's Basmati Rice exports, compare with those of alternative policy options, and suggest possible policy reforms.
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Economic integration of the East African community
… through assessment of the trade and welfare effects of a Preferential Trade Agreement(PTA) on its member countries. In particular, it examines the potential and actual impacts of the East African Community (EAC), which is hailed as one of the most successful PTAs in Africa (Koami et …
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Water security in refugee host communities: Syrian refugees in Jordan
… that host communities experience positive welfare effects following a large refugee influx, with local agricultural producers receiving the largest benefits. However, this may not occur in host communities where production inputs such as water are scarce. I adapt a dynamic economic model of …
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