The market value of residential lot size and market response to increasing housing prices have become increasingly important as regional policy makers have sought to limit the size of urban areas. Using sales data on recently constructed homes in the Portland Metro area for the years 1996-97, we have examined the effect of lot size on the sales price of detached and attached single family homes...

Equilibrium Unemployment and Investment Under Product and Labour Market Imperfections We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby for equilibrium unemployment in an economy with product and labour market imperfections. We show that intensified product market competition will reduce equilibrium unemployment, whereas the ef...

in this study, yield-water and profit function was used to obtain water demand function in agriculture sector. the results showed that the ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration had positive, significant effecton the ratio of actual to potential yield for wheat and barley. also, square ratio of actual to potential evapotranspiration had negative, significant relationship. after estimat...

Supply equations for sawlog and pulpwood were developed with a panel of data from 102 Norwegian municipalities, observed from 1980 to 2000. Static and dynamic models were estimated by cross-section. time-series and panel data methods. A static model estimated by first differencing gave the best overall results in terms of theoretical expectations, pattern or residuals. prediction accuracy and p...

BACKGROUND Fiscal interventions to improve population diet have been recommended for consideration by many organisations including the World Health Organisation and the United Nations and policies such as sugar-sweetened beverage taxes have been implemented at national and sub-national levels. However, concerns have been raised with respect to the differential impact of fiscal interventions on ...

Successful supply-side interdictions into illegal drug markets are predicated on the responsiveness of drug prices to enforcement and the price elasticity of demand for addictive drugs. We present causal estimates that targeted interventions aimed at methamphetamine input markets ('precursor control') can temporarily increase retail street prices, but methamphetamine consumption is weakly respo...

The separability of consumer desires is a necessary and sufficient condition for multi-stage budgeting and Collectivization is consistent of commodity where costs are allocated between edible groups using price indices and intergroup allocations are made independently of other groups. Given the high share of Citrus fruits, Cucurbits and vegetables types (29/5% percent of household food and beve...

In the past 15 years there has been a substantial increase in the taxation of cigarettes in the United States. The federal government and most state governments have increased taxes on cigarettes in an effort to reduce smoking. In the period 1990-2003, the national average price of cigarettes increased by 85%. This paper will use data from 1990-2003 to examine the effect that these large price ...