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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"partial equilibrium"”.
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A partial equilibrium analysis of global fertilizer supply and demand
… fertilizer spiked between 2008 and 2012. A partial equilibrium model of global nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizer markets is constructed that is capable of producing a baseline of economic variables against which the impacts of various alternative scenarios can be evaluated. A …
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Potential for dairy exports to the UK post-brexit : bilateral partial equilibrium modeling in the presence of trade barriers
The United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union has potential effects on the impacts of future trade between the United States and the United Kingdom. Import demand systems were created to develop a model that estimates imports, exports, ending stocks, prices, consumption and production …
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Essays on the inventory theory of money demand
… models are not robust. Chapter 2 develops a partial equilibrium inventory theoretic model, in which a fixed cost is involved per cash transfer. The key feature is that a firm endogenously chooses the frequency of pay periods, which a household takes as given. When the firm must borrow working …
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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
… unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given minimum real wage. The bottom-line was that product market reforms will help to reduce …
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
… budget. Welfare effects were evaluated within a partial equilibrium framework under a two-country one-commodity trade model where Mexico was considered a large exporter nation and the United States the importer country. Changes in consumer and producer surpluses were used as measures of welfare …
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A dynamic analysis of the crop productivity impacts of soil erosion: an application to the Piedmont area of Virginia
… on the theoretical formulation and estimation of partial equilibrium dynamic economic models directed toward optimizing the private use of the soil resource. In particular, four empirical representative farm models were formulated. Solutions to the four representative farm models showed that …
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The Adoption of Genetically Modified Organisms in Uruguay's Agriculture: An Ex-Ante Assessment of Potential Benefits
… (GMOs) in Uruguay's agriculture. Using a partial equilibrium framework the impacts of transgenic varieties are simulated for two crops, rice and potatoes, in small open and closed economies respectively. The model accounts for the presence of market imperfections created by the …
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Essays on Labor Market Conditions, Wage Determination, and Spillovers
… and highlights the importance of moving beyond partial equilibrium perspectives.
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Welfare effects of new fire blight control methods on the U.S. apple industry
… development of a dynamic temporal and spatial partial 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 …
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Essays on international capital flows
… of the current account. The predictions of a partial-equilibrium model of the current account, with dynamic portfolio choices, are evaluated using data for the U.S. and Japan. We show that variations in investment opportunities change agents' optimal portfolios in a direction consistent with …
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A Regional Approach to Analysis of Food Security Framework and Policies of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
… consumers due to a production shock, a spatial partial equilibrium model was utilized to analyze reserve stock management and its impact on price behavior and food security at a regional level.</p> <p>The model allowed for projected increases in population and gross domestic product (GDP). After …
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Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: The Case of Mexican Avocados
… on demand, supply, imports, and prices of partial easing of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers to trade in the U.S. market in the case of Mexican avocados. The SPS Agreement plays a role in the avocado market studied here through its implications for negotiations between countries …
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Rice Value Chain Development and Policy Sequencing in Southern Africa
… The Arkansas Global Rice Model, a non-spatial, partial equilibrium and multi-country econometric framework, is used to estimate baseline projections and simulate self-sufficiency scenarios. The business as usual baseline results indicate that none of the four countries will be able to attain …
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Assessing the Impacts of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Agriculture in the Doha Development Agenda
… a non-spatial, synthetic, stochastic, global, partial equilibrium model of the world soybean market. The SSM is assessed in concert with the currently proposed DDA tariff cutting formulas since the additional duties allowed under the SSM are proportional to prevailing bound tariff levels. This …
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Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges for Food Security and Agrarian Adaptation to Environmental Change in Bangladesh
… rice systems in Bangladesh using a spatial partial equilibrium trade model and a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The final article demonstrates a remote sensing methodology for monitoring dry season rice production at 30 m resolution in Bangladesh using a harmonic time series model, the Landsat …
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Essays on the business cycle
… for the investment behavior of firms in a partial equilibrium setup. The main result is that firms can now respond to demand shifts by postponing or accelerating the replacement of their capital stock.
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Simulation of Chinese Sorghum Imports from a New Perspective: U.S. and Global Impacts
… a large scale multi-country and multi-commodity partial equilibrium dynamic simulation model which solves for global prices and trade using individual country models. Policy instruments are applied to the China model and solved globally. The USDA-ERS China Model and the CCLS, used to project …
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Optimal and maximal taxation within and among industries with various degrees of competitiveness
… type of industry is considered separately in a partial-equilibrium framework and the results are extended to the general-equilibrium optimal taxation problem. For each market structure, the characteristics of its optimal taxation path are described; for all possible required levels of tax …
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Three essays on biofuel, weather and corn yield
… agricultural commodity prices using a stochastic partial equilibrium model. Chapter 3 develops a linear spline fixed effect model to estimate the impact of climate variables on corn yield by adding in soil moisture as an explanatory variable. Recent two drought years 2011 and 2012 are included …
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Essays on Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis
… the consumption boom, before the GFC. A partial equilibrium model is built to simulate the propagation mechanisms based on the empirical findings. The third essay is a modelling chapter. It begins with a discussion of the development of macroeconomic models in general. Following Wynne …
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