Doctor of Philosophy

Motivation of virtually all regional economic integration (REI) initiatives has been prospect of enhanced economic growth. Although REI's role in contributing to growth and development was recognised and acknowledged, its importance in Africa has never been properly outlined. Theoretical...

Az alkalmazott regressziószámítás korrigált-agregált variációs koefficiensek segítségével és az adatok pontossága mellett megállapítható, hogy a regionalizáció hatására a nemzetgazdaságok közötti gazdasági fejlettségkülönbségek kiegyenlítődnek, és a...

Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...

This research endeavor consisted of two distinct efforts. First, following a literature review of the characteristics, objectives, and incentive programs available to nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners, the potential effects of wood chip mill harvests on forest management practices...

In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit einer axiomatischen Charakterisierung von Wahlfreiheit. Im ersten Teil analysiere ich im statischen Kontext bestehende Axiomensysteme und erarbeite ihre impliziten normativen Annahmen und Defizite. Aus ihnen leite ich die Notwendigkeit ab, sowohl die...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2011. Major: Agricultural and Applied Economics. Advisors: Professor Jean Kinsey, Professor Paul Glewwe. 1 computer file (PDF);ix, 150 pages, appendices A-G.