Title of Document: THREE ESSAYS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Sang Won Yoon, PhD, 2014 Directed By: Ramón E. López Professor Agricultural and Resource Economics The first chapter derives an empirically testable set of propositions on the determinants of environmental aid as a non-market solution for trans-border pollution. The donor country balances environmental benefits against the social costs ...

6 Kapos [9], analysing employment intensity (the effect of economic growth on employment or the employment intensity of economic growth), between 1991 and 2003, for 160 countries, from different regions of the world, shows that, at global level, employment elasticity has decreased, fact that reflects the employment performance following the global economic slowdown. According to the author’s es...

A model of the Iranian wheat market is specified and fitted to data from 1981-2008. Severaldiagnostic tests were employed in the analysis to determine the specification of the model. Despitethe simplicity of the model and data problems, an examination of the econometric model leads toseveral conclusions with possible important policy implications for the wheat economy in Iran.The general result...

We propose a sufficient statistic to measure the ex-post welfare gains from trade in CES models featuring any productivity distribution and pattern of selection into production exporting. This is based on single data moment, change market share continuing domestic producers, structural parameter, elasticity substitution between products. apply our Canada's Canada-US Free Trade Agreement using o...

the aim of the paper is to survey factors productivity in small & medium scale manufactories located in toos industrial town. in order to achieve this purpose, production functions of different industrial groups are estimated on the base of cross-section data in 2005. then elasticity of factors production, average productivity, marginal productivity, labor intensive and capital intensive are de...

one of the main factors affecting on the technical and economic performance of farms and livestock is the ability or capacity management. main goal of farm management is achieving specific performance, profitability and productivity; there for measurement management and performance in livestock farms are necessary. considering the necessity of increasing production and quality in the dairy indu...

This paper presents a monopolistic competition model of trade and multinational production that incorporates asymmetric trade barriers and international differences in production costs. The model predicts the functional form for the dependence of U.S. exports and multinational production on tariffs, distance, and production costs. To deal with simultaneity, we estimate the nonlinear equations o...

Meat tenderness is a concern today in the beef cattle industry, and it will become an even greater concern in the future. • Tenderness is a complex issue, and it is difficult to predict tenderness after cooking by examining raw beef or carcass beef. Unfortunately, tenderness must be evaluated at the carcass level to be a useful tool in the industry. • A star-shaped probe was attached to an Inst...