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Author:

Liang, Jiaochen

Title:

Three Essays On U.s. Regional Development And Economic Resilience

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Entrepreneurship
Economic resilience
Related variety
Evolutionary economic geography
Trade shocks

File:

Download Doctoral_dissertation_--_Jiaochen_Liang.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephan J Goetz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Member
Johannes Wolfgang Fedderke, Special Member

Author:

Zaveri, Esha

Title:

ESSAYS ON ADAPTATION RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN INDIA

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Groundwater
Indian Monsoon
Climate Change
Migration
Irrigation
Adaptation
Inter-basin transfers

File:

Download Zaveri_Dissertation_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Fisher-Vanden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member
Douglas Harvey Wrenn II, Committee Member
Jenni Evans, Outside Member

Author:

Espinoza Hermoza, Mauricio

Title:

Breaking Land Inequality in Peru: Are Land Markets Enough?

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Land markets
Land inequality
Peru
Land Fragmentation
Land Concentration

File:

Download MSThesis_MEspinoza.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephan Goetz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
David Abler, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jing

Title:

Three Essays on the Health-Related Product Attributes and Consumer Purchasing Behavior: An Application to Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereal Market

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Consumer Demand
Healthy Product Attributes
Distance Metric Method
Consumer Welfare
Producer Surplus
Preference for Variety

File:

Download Dissertation_JingLi_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C. Jaenicke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C. Jaenicke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Spiro E. Stefanou, Committee Member
Stephan J. Goetz, Committee Member
Joris Pinkse, Outside Member
Alessandro Bonanno, Special Member

Author:

Li, Xueyi

Title:

BARRIERS TO IMPROVING IMPLEMENTATION OF PENNSYLVANIA’S UNDERGROUND INJECTION WELL PROGRAM

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

shale gas
wastewater
underground injection well
Pennsylvania

File:

Download Xueyi_Ms_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Jaenicke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Abdalla, Committee Member
Edward Jaenicke, Committee Member

Author:

Demko, Iryna

Title:

ESSAYS ON U.S. ORGANIC FOOD TRADE AND CREDENCE GOODS CONSUMPTION

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

organic food
organic equivalency arrangement
synthetic control method
gravity model
credence goods
vitamins
sustainability

File:

Download iryna_demko_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C. Jaenicke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C. Jaenicke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Spiro E. Stefanou, Committee Member
Douglas H. Wrenn, Committee Member
Peter W. Newberry, Outside Member

Author:

Cho, Wonjoo

Title:

BILATERAL INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN THE DESIGN OF AN AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM: AN APPLICATION TO PEATLAND RETIREMENT IN NORWAY

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Agri-environmental Policy
Information Asymmetry
Greenhouse gas mitigation
Peatland
Principal-Agent Model

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_-_resubmitted_-_Wonjoo_Cho.pdf

Committee Members:

David Blandford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Blandford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member
Katherine Yoder Zipp, Committee Member
Seth Adam Blumsack, Outside Member

Author:

Tian, Jiachuan

Title:

COMMODITY PRICE DYNAMICS: DISCONTINUITY AND JUMPS

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Price Dynamics
Jumps
Time Series
Food and Energy Prices

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert D. Weaver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert D. Weaver, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katherine Y. Zipp, Committee Member
Scott J. Colby, Committee Member
Alexei Novikov, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Yingxian

Title:

Essays on consumers' purchase behavior for fresh fruits and vegetables

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

consumer purchase behavior
fruits and vegetables
store choice
Bayesian estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_whole_110916.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Jaenicke, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward C Jaenicke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member
Spiro Stefanou, Committee Member
Duncan Fong, Outside Member

Author:

Puggioni, Daniela

Title:

On Modeling and Evaluating the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
multiple input/output technology
DEA
efficiency
shadow prices of non-marketed outputs
calculus of DEA
food and beverage manufacturing industry

File:

Download DPuggioniDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Spiro E. Stefanou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Spiro E. Stefanou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C. Jaenicke, Committee Member
Stephan J. Goetz, Committee Member
Terry P. Harrison, Outside Member
Robert G. Chambers, Special Member