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An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Quality Factors On The Price Of Rough Rice In Louisiana., John Frederick Denison
An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Quality Factors On The Price Of Rough Rice In Louisiana., John Frederick Denison
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation analyzes the effects of quality factors on prices paid producers for long and medium grain rough rice in Louisiana. Rough rice prices, and other information surrounding quality, were collected for the study for the 1986/87 and 1987/88 marketing years from the Louisiana Farm Bureau Marketing Association in Crowley, Louisiana. The relationship between the price of rough rice, and its quality attributes or characteristics, was analyzed in a hedonic price framework. A conceptual model for the Louisiana rough rice market was constructed, and estimated premiums and discounts reported for a set of quality factors believed to influence producer prices. …
Theories Of Economic Regulation And The Development Of The Doctrine Of "Conspiracies In Restraint Of Trade" In The Labor Market., Edd Sidney Noell
Theories Of Economic Regulation And The Development Of The Doctrine Of "Conspiracies In Restraint Of Trade" In The Labor Market., Edd Sidney Noell
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the development of the doctrine of "conspiracies in restraint of trade" in the labor market by means of an application of two models of economic regulation. As heuristic devices, these models are utilized to explain the formation of English and American labor law in three different eras. The market failure model posits that labor market regulators seek to remedy unequal bargaining power and asymmetric information so as to achieve economic efficiency. This model's 'liberty and virtue' component emphasizes the normative end of character formation. According to the interest group model, organized labor …
The Macroeconomic Effects Of Fiscal And Monetary Impulses And Of Financial Crisis In The United States During The Interwar Period., Prosper Raynold
The Macroeconomic Effects Of Fiscal And Monetary Impulses And Of Financial Crisis In The United States During The Interwar Period., Prosper Raynold
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation employs vector autoregressive techniques to improve our empirical understanding of fiscal and monetary policy and the effects of financial crisis in the interwar period. The issues investigated include: (a) the validity of the Ricardian equivalence and debt monetization hypotheses; (b) the effect of changes in the money supply on output, prices, and interest rates; (c) the impact of changes in average marginal tax rates and government expenditures on the macroeconomy; and (d) the effects of disruptions in financial intermediation and deterioration in the quality of private balance sheets on the macroeconomy. Two vector autoregressive models are estimated and …
Three Essays On The Determinants And Effects Of Public Sector Bargaining Laws., Melissa S. Waters
Three Essays On The Determinants And Effects Of Public Sector Bargaining Laws., Melissa S. Waters
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The theoretical foundation of this model is the economic theory of regulation as developed by Stigler; in addition, modifications of the economic or special interest theory implied by the Public Choice school of thought are employed. A synthesis of these two theories of regulation, then, provides the framework upon which to develop a general model of the causes and consequences of laws regulating the bargaining rights of state employees. Topic One is devoted exclusively to the determinants of state-wide bargaining rights laws. The data are pooled over two years, and state laws are classified into one of three possible categories: …
Mortgage-Backed Securities And The Effect On Financial Firm Value., Krisandra A. Guidry
Mortgage-Backed Securities And The Effect On Financial Firm Value., Krisandra A. Guidry
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
One of the most important financial innovations in the past few years has been mortgage securitization. This dissertation examines several motives for the issuance of mortgage-backed securities and how the issuance of mortgage-backed securities affects the value of a financial intermediary. Several studies suggest that there is some benefit to mortgage-backed security offerings. Possible reasons for securitization include diversification, funding, avoidance of regulatory taxes, creation of value, and portfolio reshuffling. Much of the empirical literature on the issuance of mortgage-backed securities has focused on depository intermediary risk. However, the effect of mortgage-backed securities on firm value is unclear. The principle …
Toward The Inclusion Of Environmental Factors In The Concept And Measure Of National Income., George Edward Foy Jr
Toward The Inclusion Of Environmental Factors In The Concept And Measure Of National Income., George Edward Foy Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation uses Sir John Hicks' concept of income as a guide to integrate environmental factors into the concept and measure of national income. Chapter 1 introduces Hicks' concept of income as the maximum amount which one can consume in a given period and still be as well off at the end of the period as he was at the beginning. This basic idea of sustainability requires accounting for the net depletion of all capital consumed in current production. Chapter 2 documents recent trends in natural resource use to demonstrate that exclusion of the depreciation of environmental capital from NNP …
Essays On The Components Of The Bid-Ask Spread., Pei-Hwang Wei
Essays On The Components Of The Bid-Ask Spread., Pei-Hwang Wei
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The presence of the bid-ask spread causes equilibrium prices to deviate from transaction prices. More importantly, the components of the spread--the order component, the inventory component, and the information component--have different impacts on transaction prices. In general, the order and the inventory components induce negative correlation in successive transaction price changes. On the other hand, transaction prices will form a martingale if only the information component exists. This dissertation is composed of three related essays that utilize this general relationship between transaction prices and the components of the spread. The first essay employs a cross-sectional analysis that relates components of …
Louisiana Agricultural Productivity: A Multi-Input Multi-Output Approach., Abiodun Ojemakinde
Louisiana Agricultural Productivity: A Multi-Input Multi-Output Approach., Abiodun Ojemakinde
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Agricultural research and extension is an important contributor to Louisiana agriculture. However, there is no documented work investigating the impacts of public agricultural research and extension on agricultural production in Louisiana. This study investigates the impacts of public agricultural research and extension and other quasi-fixed factors on production choices of the Louisiana farmers. The specific objectives of this study are: (1) to estimate conditional output supply equations for Louisiana's main crops and livestock and input demand equations for fertilizer and labor, (2) to evaluate the impacts of public agricultural research and extension and other quasi-fixed inputs on the Louisiana agricultural …
Three Essays On Price Volatility And Trading Volume In Financial Markets., Percy Siuping Poon
Three Essays On Price Volatility And Trading Volume In Financial Markets., Percy Siuping Poon
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The objective of this dissertation is to examine the stock price volatility-volume relationship. The dissertation begins with an estimation of the time deformation market model in which stock contemporaneous trading volume is utilized as a proxy for the rate of information arrival. This local time market model is economically appealing because it is capable of explaining the observed heteroskedasticity and leptokurtosis in daily return data. With a sample of firms which have stock splits, it is shown that the inferences drawn from a modified event study which incorporates the local time market model are similar to those drawn from a …
The Macroeconomics Of Presidential Popularity., Susan Katherine Washburn
The Macroeconomics Of Presidential Popularity., Susan Katherine Washburn
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines several issues dealing with the public's social preference function between inflation and unemployment. First, the preference function is estimated as a nonlinear function. Second, the thesis analyzes the ability of a presidential administration to improve its popularity level by exploiting a short-run Phillips curve. Finally, preference functions disaggregated by sex, race, political party, and geographical region are estimated. Presidential approval levels are proxied by monthly Gallup Poll approval data. Chapter One serves as an overview of the current body of literature. While theoretical analyses of macroeconomic policy have traditionally assumed that the public's social preference function is …