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Usain National Conference Report, Dana W. R. Boden Oct 1993

Usain National Conference Report, Dana W. R. Boden

UNL Libraries: Faculty Publications

General overview of the Third National Conference of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) held October 28-30, 1993, Auburn, Alabama. The conference theme was "Rural Information at the Crossroads: Issues and Opportunities", with sub-themes each day of the conference.


Domestic Monopoly, Quotas & Contestable Rents, William Rieber Jan 1993

Domestic Monopoly, Quotas & Contestable Rents, William Rieber

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

In this article, a specific example is given to illustrate that rent seeking can raise welfare under full seeking in general equilibrium: an import quota is levied in the presence of domestic monopoly in the import competing industry. An import quota is considered instead of an import tariff since a tariff confers no market power on the local monopolist. The monopolist still faces a perfectly elastic demand, corresponding now to the world price plus tariff. The introduction of monopoly does not add another distortion to the economy, which is necessary if full rent seeking is to be welfare improving. But …


Activity Implicatures And Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?., Laurel Smith Stvan Jan 1993

Activity Implicatures And Possessor Implicatures: What Are Locations When There Is No Article?., Laurel Smith Stvan

Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations

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