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Three Essays on International Trade, Market Structure, and Agricultural Cooperatives

Yen, Meng-Fen, Yen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502465536450035

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2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics.
This dissertation consists of three essays on trade, market structure and agricultural cooperative financing. In my first essay, we explore how public investment in commercial infrastructure affects the composition of trade between countries. We find that, ceteris paribus, greater public investment in commercial infrastructure raises general labor productivity, leading to gains in workers’ real income. However, workers must be taxed to finance the infrastructure improvements, so that the net benefits of increased public investment are rendered ambiguous. In my second essay, we explore the relationship between wage premia and market structure. We find that the wage premium is not the result of relative labor endowments between the two trading countries, as past literature has suggested, but is the result of differences in market structure. More specifically, the wage premium is higher under oligopolistic competition than under monopolistic competition. In my third essay, we examine how capital constraints affect the growth of agricultural cooperatives and whether external sources of capital relieve capital constraint problems. We find that long-term debt use, cash flow, unallocated equity and long-term debt financing are critical contributors to asset growth for small and medium-sized cooperatives.
Mario Miranda (Advisor)
Ani Katchova (Committee Member)
Brian Roe (Committee Member)
122 p.
Agricultural Economics
International trade, Comparative advantage, Commercial Infrastructure, Nash Equilibrium, Stackelberg Equilibrium, Wage premium, Market structure, Capital Constraints, Cooperative Growth, Propensity Score Matching, System-GMM

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  • Yen, Yen, M.-F. (2017). Three Essays on International Trade, Market Structure, and Agricultural Cooperatives [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502465536450035

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  • Yen, Yen, Meng-Fen. Three Essays on International Trade, Market Structure, and Agricultural Cooperatives. 2017. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502465536450035.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yen, Yen, Meng-Fen. "Three Essays on International Trade, Market Structure, and Agricultural Cooperatives." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502465536450035

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