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Essays on Commodity Market Liberalization, Spatial Competition and Farmer's Price.

GOHOU, Gaston Logoue N - 2006

This dissertation examines the effects of commodity market liberalization on the farmer's price. Chapter two of this dissertation presents a theoretical model of commodity market liberalization which aims to analyze the impact of market liberalization on the farmer's price. This monopsony-type...

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Essays In Spatial Econometrics

Mathur, Aparna - 2005

Spatial econometrics is a subfield of econometrics that deals with the treatment of spatialinteractions in regression models for cross sectional and panel data.Chapter 1: This is the first paper that highlights the role of spatial interactions, in thecontext of bankruptcy laws, in the...

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A Spatiotemporal Fixed Effects Estimation of U.S. State-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Burnett, J. Wesley; Bergstrom, John C. - 2011

One of the major shortcommings of past environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) studies is that the spatiotemporal aspects within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC implicitly assume that a region’s emissions are...

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Market Value vs Historical Cost Valuations of Fixed Assets in the Context of International Convergence

Varga, Alexander Y - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the differences between accounting for fixed assets under IFRS and U.S. GAAP. Primarily the discussion will be driven by the question: which standard should the FASB lobby for in its joint effort with the IASB to converge U.S. GAAP with IFRS? The paper...

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U.S. GAAP Convergence to IFRS and the Risk Implications Involved in Convergence

Salzman, Benjamin J. - 2011

The purpose of this thesis is to examine in depth the process of U.S. GAAP convergence to IFRS. The thesis begins by … providing the history of convergence, which include all the measures that have led to the FASB’s and IASB efforts today. Some … convergence or endorsement of IFRS. The conclusion includes interviews of three Deloitte professionals on their opinions of …

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