Browsing Agricultural & Resource Economics by Issue Date
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Renewable Resources as a Factor of Production in International Trade
(2005-11-04)This work provides an extensive review of the literature on trade and environmental issues that has been growing since the early 1990s. The gaps in this literature are identified and generalizations are provided from results ... -
The Impact of the Washington Metro on Development Patterns
(2005-12-05)It is a tenet of urban planning that transportation networks help shape the spatial configuration of cities. In the case of heavy rail systems, a common belief is that building a subway system will promote employment and ... -
Factors Affecting Agricultural Expansion in Forest Reserves of Thailand: The Role of Population and Roads
(2006-04-27)In this dissertation, I examine the role of population and transportation costs in determining agricultural expansion in 670 villages located in Forest Reserves of Thailand, over the period 1986-1996. Specifically, I examine ... -
Self-regulation, productivity, and nonlinear pricing. Three essays on quality production in agricultural markets
(2006-05-16)In this dissertation I analyze the quality choices of a group of producers. In the first essay I use mechanism design to study the interaction of asymmetric information and the democratic process in the quality choices of ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2006-05-18)Behavioral economics aims to provide more realistic psychological foundations for economic models. Experimental methods can contribute to this effort by providing the ability to identify causal processes and motivations ... -
Methodology and Estimation of the Welfare Impact of Energy Reforms on Households in Azerbaijan
(2006-06-07)This dissertation develops a new approach that enables policy-makers to analyze welfare gains from improvements in the quality of infrastructure services in developing countries where data are limited and supply is subject ... -
The impact of trade and policy liberalization on Argentina's agricultural sector: technology adoption in a dynamic model
(2006-08-04)This dissertation analyzes the effect of policies associated with increased openness of the economy on the development of the agricultural sector, with a focus on adoption of technology. It investigates with the help of ... -
Endogenous Property Rights Regimes, Common Property Resources and Trade Policies
(2006-09-13)International clamor regarding the potential degradation of the environment in developing countries due to opening to trade has been an important issue that has moved from the streets into academic studies. This dissertation ... -
The Value of Mortality Risk Reductions in Delhi, India
(2006-11-27)Road accidents kill nearly 1.2 million people each year worldwide, two-thirds of whom live in developing countries. Traffic crashes may indeed become the third leading cause of death in developing countries by the year ... -
The Influence of Heterogeneous Risk Preferences on Water Market Activity: an Application to the Paloma System of the Limarí Water Basin, Chile
(2007-02-07)This dissertation contributes to our knowledge about water markets by analyzing the factors that explain market transactions of water rights when there is also a spot market for water volumes. I hypothesize that risk ... -
Evaluating the Equilibrium Welfare Impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments in the Los Angeles Area
(2007-07-16)This dissertation develops a discrete choice equilibrium model to evaluate the benefits of the air quality improvements that occurred in the Los Angeles area following the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). Large ... -
The Economics of Fallow: Evidence from the Eastern Amazon
(2007-08-01)With tropical deforestation a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, the land use decisions of small-scale farmers at the forest margins have important implications for the global environment. ... -
Optimal Contracting and Vertical Coordination in the Beef Industry: An Assessment of Value-Based Pricing
(2007-11-21)This dissertation explores the nature and scope of vertical coordination in the U.S. beef industry. From the perspective of the incomplete contract theory of the industrial organization literature, this dissertation first ... -
Costly Renewable Resource Management and International Trade
(2007-12-20)Renewable resource management is necessary to avoid the dissipation of inter-temporal rents due to open access exploitation. In reality management is costly, which implies that the first best solution is not appropriate. ... -
Essays on Split Estate in Energy Development
(2008)Taking advantage of randomly-assigned federal mineral rights, the first essay establishes the discount that mineral developers place on oil and gas leases with divided ownership. This discount is interpreted as an expectation ... -
Pricing Carbon: Allowance Price Determination in the EU ETS
(2008)The allowance price in Phase I of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) followed a peculiar path, increasing from €7 in 2005 to over €30 in 2006, before crashing, recovering and ultimately finishing ... -
SERVICE QUALITY AND ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION IN THE REGULATION OF MONOPOLIES: THE CHILEAN ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY
(2008-01-03)This study is an enquiry about the role that service quality, asymmetric information, scope of regulation and regulator's preferences play in the regulation of monopolies, with an application to the case of the Chilean ... -
Three Essays on Coffee Markets
(2008-01-11)Among the most prominent contributions of agricultural economists to the development field is the analysis of issues in commodity marketing. The topics include the role of competition among market intermediaries in determining ...