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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation examines the macroeconomic effects of poverty and inequality. The second chapter considers the effect of poverty and subsistence consumption constraints on economic growth in a two-sector occupational ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)The U.S. social security system faces funding pressure due to the aging of the population. This dissertation examines the welfare cost of social security reform and social security policy uncertainty under rational ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The behavior of the macroeconomy and monetary policy is heavily influenced by expectations. Recent research has explored how minor changes in expectation formation can change the stability properties of a model. One common ...
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(University of Oregon, 1960-06)The attempt of this study is to appraise the importance of some factors which explain the difference in productivity of the Japanese and U.S. economics. The explanation is attempted in fairly narrow economic terms; this ...
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(University of Oregon, 1939-06)Notwithstanding a clear statement to the contrary by the United States Supreme Court in the Nebbia case, production and distribution of fluid milk for human consumption is being considered more generally the subject of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1953-06)Albert Gallatin (1761—1849) believed that a stable and secure money was both an economic necessity and moral obligation of the monetary authority. He would have preferred that the supply of money be limited to that furnished ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The banking sector has been extensively analyzed in economics. On the microeconomic side, research has advanced our understanding of banks and the inverse relationship between market power and bank production. The macroeconomic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This dissertation investigates whether criticisms of standard economic models can be addressed with only minimal modifications to the assumptions. In the first essay, the Real Business Cycle (RBC) model is studied, though ...
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The Oregon System of Rehabilitation with a Survey for Additional Placements of Crippled and Disabled (University of Oregon, 1938-03)During the last few years, the people of the United States have experienced great social changes, extreme political upheaval, and serious economic maladjustments, which have been the cause and effect of constantly shifting ...
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(University of Oregon, 1937-12)Cooperation is concerned with human loyalties, is rooted deep in economic activity, and has an object underlain by a theory and a set of principles. Thousands of people have organized economic cooperation; its ideal, its ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)In Chapter II I analyze eco-labeling in the tourism industry, specifically the impact of the Blue Flag label for marinas and beaches on prices of marina slip rentals, weekly sailboat charter prices and hotel accommodation ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)In this dissertation, we experimentally examine individual preferences of effort, including time and risk preferences. In Chapter 3, we find that at least in certain settings and mindsets, individuals are very patient in ...
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(University of Oregon, 1961-06)One of the most striking characteristics of the developing underdeveloped countries of today may be found in the fact that those countries are suffering from balance of payments difficulties. Korea is by no means an ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)Railroads have been subject to federal regulation since 1887. Due to the development of competing modes of transportation and changes in types of products being shipped, regulation began to impede efficiency and viability ...
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(University of Oregon, 1939-06)While the thought by economic ills might be mollified by price fixing is by no means new, it has come into particular prominence during the Roosevelt administration. The N. R. A. It was the most ambitious and thoroughgoing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)For the empirical macroeconomist, accounting for nonlinearities in data series by using regime switching techniques has a long history. Over the past 25 years, there have been tremendous advances in both the estimation of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)I collect data on subjects' information acquisition during real and hypothetical risky choices using process-tracing software called Mouselab. I also measure subjects' cognitive ability using the cognitive reflective test ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)I develop a model in which a representative consumer selects an affordable consumption bundle, not as a single choice, but as the end result of a series of smaller, incremental purchase decisions. If the array of such ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation explores the price-setting behavior of firms both theoretically and empirically. The first portion constructs a theoretical model of price-setting in which firms are rationally inattentive: they ...
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(University of Oregon, 1961-06)Foreign investments have been a traditional means less developed countries and areas to obtain resources from abroad and to develop more quickly than if there were no outside assistance. The types of investments and the ...
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