Browsing by Subject "Economics"
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 1985-05)The concept of a thermal powered absorption heat pump is not a new or revolutionary idea. It has been successfully demonstrated in the lab and prototypes have been installed in the field. Units have been successfully applied ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1975)The substantial growth and increased concentration of banking resources in bank holding companies (BHCs) within the last decade have created a great deal of interest in the cause and effects of this movement. The area ...
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(2017-05-09)This research investigates population-level behavioral dynamics, how they affect the emergence of self-enforcing conventions, and how they can aid in the design of mechanisms to better achieve policy goals. It seeks to ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze econometrically the adjustments that occur in irrigated agriculture in response to increases in the cost of obtaining groundwater. In recent years there has been a growing ...
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(2015-08-04)In recent years, there has been growing concern about soil productivity and environmental implications of conventional agriculture, especially tillage practices. This has led to the promotion of conservation agriculture ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of this dissertation is to extend the efforts to clarify the nature of airport noise on housing values. That noise from air traffic would lower housing values around urban airports seems intuitively obvious. ...
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(2020-04-16)Over the last decade, there has been an increase in the discussion of minimum wage policy in the field of economics. This has also been reflected in increased wage rates in a variety of states as an attempt to increase ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)A survey of the literature reveals that the burial and exhumation of the business cycle are themselves cyclical events. The most recent advance in business cycle theory is the "Rational Expectations" school; however, this ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The economics of space, particularly the theory of industrial location, has remained largely outside of the basic structure of classical (nonspatial) economic theory. This isolation stems from the fact that most of the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)A recent trend in economics has been to relate macroeconomic theory to its microeconomic foundations. Of particular interest for this study is the part of this trend involving the link between aspects of monetary theory ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976, ©197)The study of changes in the money supply and the effect of these changes on other important economic variables has constituted a significant portion of economic research since the establishment of economics as a separate ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)This dissertation summarizes the methodological views of each of the major participants in the Nineteenth Century British Methodenstreit in Political Economy and isolates those currents in Nineteenth Century economic ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1984)Chemical engineers must lead industry to a clearer view of the thermodynamic potential of existing plants and more realistic expectations for emerging new technologies. ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1984)The project to build a PYROFLOW circulating fluidized bed combustion (FBC) boiler at the BFGoodrich Chemical Plant at Henry, Illinois, is described. This project is being partially funded by Illinois to demonstrate the ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu), 1982)Since the successful Coal-Oil Mixture tests carried out by G-M from 1975 to 1977, COM is rapidly maturing into a commercially available alternative fuel which is presently being produced and combusted by various companies ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation is an empirical, comparative study of the impact of two different approaches, the joint estimation approach and the alternative selection approach, in dealing with econometric models of a typical ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)The choice of the best monetary aggregate for use as the target variable in conducting monetary policy has been an unsettled question for many years in economics. The problem has recently become more important for two ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )This study accomplishes two principal objectives: 1) the extension of the general theory of economic regulation to include the case of a self-regulated profession, and 2) the specification and testing of an empirical model ...
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(2019-05-29)Completion optimization is a process of identifying completion parameters (e.g., lateral length, number of entry points and sand intensity) that maximize economics. Completion optimization is difficult to accomplish due ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)This study is concerned with consumers in the traditional sector of Iran who are highly influenced by Islamic rules and regulations, especially those prohibiting the charging of interest on loans. This constraint has been ...