Browsing by Subject "Major economics"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)In past years a large number of papers have appeared that extend the familiar IS-LM model to a macro analysis for open economies. The two interesting issues in these writings are (1) macro theory of devaluation under fixed ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)In the form of three essays, this dissertation addresses issues related to failed bank auctions and bank takeovers. The first essay empirically tests the theory-suggested hypothesis that there is an under-bidding strategy ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)In the public finance literature, the median voter model is
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)The essays that together make up this dissertation investigate the circumstances in which long term contracts and vertically integrated firm allocation are chosen to govern economic relationships. The analysis in the first ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A given expenditure can be financed by raising taxes, borrowing, money creation, and/or a combination of these three. What are the differential impacts of these alternative methods of financing public expenditures? Is there ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)The general equilibrium model developed by Marshall and Walrus is not adequate for analyzing the real world, because the price variables (i.e., price, the rate of interest, and the wage rate), whose adjustment speed is ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation describes an investigation into an alternative approach to the computation of true cost-of-living indexes (TCLIs). Traditionally, computation of TCLIs has involved the estimation of utility function ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)There is need to explore the various factors that affect industrial site selection and the impacts of different pricing policies and types of competition on the location of industry. This dissertation proceeds to fulfill ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This dissertation analyses the impact of price discrimination in a differentiated product market. Consumers are characterized by their locations over a characteristic space and their sensitivities toward the differentiated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)This dissertation analyzes the income distribution in the Central Islip Token Economy. A controlled economic experiment was conducted within this economy in July and August of 1971. The primary data from this experiment ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)Economics has much to say about the meaning of feasible as used in the OSHA Act and as used in the occupational noise standard. The OSHA Act requires as a condition for the setting of standards that the standard be feasible. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)We consider the restrictions that the government budget identity places in an economy with rational expectations and, in particular, the case in which the fiscal authorities predetermine the conventional government deficit ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)A comparison of product qualities across different market structures has been a major issue in the economic analysis of quality determination. The literature focused in particular on the difference in product quality between ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation is concerned with the study of the airline industry's transition to a deregulated environment. In this dissertation, economic literature concerning market performance in alternative regulatory environments ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)In most models of consumer behavior, the effects of search for lower prices is ignored. Typically consumers are assumed to face parametrically determined prices, the knowledge of which is freely available to the consumer. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Agglomeration economies are defined as economies of scope which may result from the agglomeration of an urban area. Such economies are realized as a function of the concentration of individuals and industries in a geographic ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This dissertation provides an alternative framework and hypothesis for the study of olygopoly markets when firms compete against rivals by means of price and quality. For the expositional case of study, we refer to the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1995)This dissertation examines two interrelated aspects of the problem of inflation uncertainty. The first is an examination of the cause for a, positive relationship between expected inflation and the uncertainty of inflation. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)The expanding interest in the private delivery of many public goods and services suggests public provision of public goods need not represent a dominant institution. Basic analysis of private market provision of excludable ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)In his work on legislative size Stigler presents the following prologue, "The central task of representation is to give efficient representation to the collection of group interests that express the desires of the citizens ...