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...

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...

Theories of economic growth have long recognized that the majority of growth resultsfrom endogenous changes in technology that emerge from the profit motivateddevelopment of new knowledge. However, recent theorizing has suggested that thecreation of knowledge in and of itself does not directly...

The author examines the impact of the Massachusetts’ health reform law of 2006,Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006: An Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality,Accountable Health Care, which uses both individual and employer insurance-mandateson Entrepreneurship in the formation of new...

In the introductory chapter it has been laid out, that knowledge as an input factor of production exhibits a strong influence on economic development. The increasing knowledge intensity in the globalised economy needs to focus on the determinants of the "knowledge based society". Two major...