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    • Jegasothy, Kandiah (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      This study investigates resource allocation in Sri Lankan peasant agriculture and focuses on dry zone multi-output/multi-input farming systems (Vavuniya district). Investigation is carried out at both farm household and ...
    • England, Ruth Catherine (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)
      This dissertation asks whether banking is unique in avoiding the costs associated with economic regulation or its inability to prove stable if left unregulated. Chapter II describes the inflexibility and inefficient ...
    • Edwards, Mary Elizabeth (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)
      The purpose of this research is to investigate the functional incidence of a tax on land values and compare it with the incidence of a tax on reproducible capital. First, the nature of the supply of land and the role of ...
    • Hackett, Steven Curtis (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 ...
    • Contreras-Astiazaran, Benjamin (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 ...
    • Hearne, Linda Joann (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 ...
    • Saez, Roberto R. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)
      Using a comprehensive multiproduct-multifactor approach to product supply and factor demand analysis, this study analyzes 8 commodity groups and 8 input categories for the post-war (1946-1979) period for 10 farm production ...
    • Song, Jong-Guk (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 ...
    • Yi, Chul Ho (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)
      The methods of estimating the distribution of public good benefits among various individuals have long been of interest to both academic economists and government policy makers for the purpose of analyzing the impact of ...