We analyze a multi-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essential for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific innovations endogenously determines whether technical progress will be capital- or...

Purpose – IPv6 is the replacement for the Internet’s incumbent protocol, IPv4. IPv6 adoption is required to allow the Internet to continue to grow; however, there has been almost no uptake since its standardisation in the late 1990s. This paper seeks to explain how this non-adoption may be a...

The current commodity boom is a major opportunity for poor countries exportingexhaustible resources such as oil. In the past oil booms were often mismanaged leaving the country with lower long run income. Many countries are now well aware that booms require intricate savings and investment...

Conventional soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] production in the midsouthern USA has involved planting Maturity Group (MG) V and later cultivars in May and later months in a seedbed that has been shallow-tilled in the fall or spring just before planting. Moisture deficits that frequently occur...

US agriculture operates in a market driven economy, although government policies can have influence on what farmers produce and how they produce it. As with other businesses, agricultural producers respond to economic incentives and disincentives, and make decisions to maximize their welfare;...

The Environmental Protection Agency requires concentrated animal feeding operations to develop and implement a comprehensive nutrient management plan. Changes in manure management to meet nutrient application standards will increase production costs. Some of these costs can be offset by savings...

One critical factor in open pit mining projects is the estimation of the recoverable reserves. The reason for this is that at the valuation stage there is a lack of information about future metal prices and production costs. Consequently, the estimation of the recoverable reserves needs to be...

Magistrantūros studijų baigiamasis darbas, 60 puslapių, 12 paveikslų, 5 lentelės, 51 literatūros šaltinis, 5 priedai, lietuvių kalba.Tyrimo objektas – duonos ir kitus miltinius gaminius gaminančios įmonės.Tyrimo dalykas – gamybos išlaidų klasifikavimas.Darbo tikslas – parengti...

The subject of the research is production costs classification used in the Lithuanian manufacture enterprises and farmers’ farms.The goal of the work is to reason the expedience of selection of the classification features in practice and to measure the adaptation opportunities of the selected...

O objetivo principal deste trabalho foi estimar custos e lucro líquido nas etapas de campo (incluindo a elaboração de cera de origem) do extrativismo da carnaúba. A coleta dos dados ocorreu ao longo dos anos de 2005 e 2006, por meio de entrevistas abertas e observação de campo, ocasião em...