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Technology, Common Inputs, And Public Policies In Developing Countries, Ka-Yiu Fung
Technology, Common Inputs, And Public Policies In Developing Countries, Ka-Yiu Fung
Digitized Theses
The thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, a two-final-good and knowledge-based growth model is built to study the patterns of economic growth in a SOE. The source of economic growth is the introduction of new intermediate goods as a result of R&D, which in turn generates dynamic IRS in both the production of one final good and R&D. The results obtained in the model are consistent with intercountry differences in growth patterns.;The second essay constructs a simple model to study how technology transfer (through foreign direct investment or licensing of technology) affects R&D intensity of domestic firms …
Aspects Of Victorian Psychologism, John F. Metcalfe
Aspects Of Victorian Psychologism, John F. Metcalfe
Digitized Theses
In this essay I present revisionary readings of four Victorian philosophers. I argue that each of them is fundamentally committed to a naturalistic philosophical project called psychologism. The psychologistic readings that this critical stance generates offer resources that may be exploited by contemporary philosophers pursuing their own naturalistic projects.;In the first chapter I sketch the structure and main points of the essay. In the second chapter I suggest that Mansel's Kantian psychologism manages to evade the criticisms of Husserl. This serves to highlight the distance between psychologism and contemporary logic. In the third chapter I argue that Whewell embraces a …
Economic Growth: Dynamic Interactions With International Trade And Global Environment, Zhiqi Chen
Economic Growth: Dynamic Interactions With International Trade And Global Environment, Zhiqi Chen
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The thesis comprises four essays that, through theoretical analysis, explore the dynamic impact of capital accumulation on international trade (Chapters 1 and 2) and the dynamic interaction between economic activities and the global climate (Chapters 3 and 4).;Chapter 1 presents a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model in which agents' labor supply and investment decisions are endogenous. It is shown that analogues to the major results of the standard Heckscher-Ohlin model are valid in this model. Using the model developed in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 studies the determinant of comparative advantage in the long-run between countries with identical preferences. It is shown that …
Essays On Hysteresis In Trade And Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Kong-Wing Chow
Essays On Hysteresis In Trade And Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Kong-Wing Chow
Digitized Theses
Chapter 1 of this thesis derives the long run general equilibrium of a home economy in a two-country overlapping generations model where agents' participation in production and the exchange rate are endogenous. We find that the presence of multiple equilibria is crucial for the existence of hysteresis defined as a change in the market structure of import or export markets, e.g. a change in the number of incumbent producers. With the presence of a positive network externality, the model will guarantee the possibility of hysteresis, i.e. multiple equilibria. Moreover, welfare is unambiguously increasing in the number of producers.;Chapter 2 applies …
Collusive Pricing With Incomplete Information, Chantale Lacasse
Collusive Pricing With Incomplete Information, Chantale Lacasse
Digitized Theses
Fudenberg and Maskin (1986) find that any feasible and individually rational payoff can be supported by subgame perfect equilibrium strategies in an infinitely repeated game with complete information, if the discount rate is low enough. An analogous result holds for the case of finitely repeated games (Benoi t and Krishna (1985)).;These results imply that, if a cartel forms, it will have no difficulty maintaining its collusive agreement. The first part of the thesis investigates when agents choose to collude given the benefits of collusion (cooperative payoffs dominate non-cooperative payoffs) and its cost (agents risk government prosecution). We choose the context …
Three Essays On Non-Market Resource Allocation Mechanisms, Lijing Zhu
Three Essays On Non-Market Resource Allocation Mechanisms, Lijing Zhu
Digitized Theses
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I apply the first-price auction theory to investigate equilibrium queuing behavior, rent distribution, and rent dissipation given that the underpriced consumer goods are distributed through queuing and random allocation mechanisms. Four major results are obtained. First, using the generalized first-price auction framework, two existing queuing models in the literature are unified. Second, it is shown that the equilibrium queuing time can be shorter with a secondary market than without. Third, with rationing by queuing as the allocation mechanism, the emergence of secondary markets does not necessarily lead to Pareto improvement: …
Female Farm Operators, Gender Relations And The Restructuring Canadian Agricultural System, Gloria Jean Leckie
Female Farm Operators, Gender Relations And The Restructuring Canadian Agricultural System, Gloria Jean Leckie
Digitized Theses
It is widely recognized that the practice of agriculture is a highly gendered activity, with traditional roles for women centring around the concept of the agricultural helpmate. The most non-traditional role played by women is that of a farm owner or operator, directing a farming venture. This group has become more noticeable as agricultural restructuring progresses and the number of male farmers declines, yet relatively little detailed information exists about them, or the farms they operate. Furthermore, relatively little is known about how the traditional gender relations of agriculture influence the daily lives of female farmers, who must live and …