Two Essays

Two Essays on Investment

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Two Essays on Income

TWO ESSAYS ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY by Asim K. Dasgupta Submitted to the Department of Economics on May 12, 1975 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This thesis is a collection of two essays.on the relationship between the distribution of income and the behavior of some crucial macro-variables in a developing economy. The firs...

Two Essays in Empirical Capital Structure

Nonmarket Valuation and Land Use: Two Essays

The research presented here consists of two essays that describe applications of nonmarket valuation techniques to current land use issues. The individual studies were designed to address important methodological and policy issues, respectively. In the first essay, Geographic Infornlation System (GIs) data are used to develop variables representing the physical extent and visibility of surround...

Dissertation : TWO EMPIRICAL ESSAYS IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS

Title of Dissertation: TWO EMPIRICAL ESSAYS IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND URBAN ECONOMICS Yi Jiang Doctor of Philosophy, 2008 Directed By: Professors Maureen Cropper and William Evans Externalities associated with automobile use have long been an important topic in environmental and urban economics. Air pollution and traffic congestion constitute two main external costs of driving (Parry, Walls and Harr...