Many developing countries such as Palestine are simultaneously fiscally limited and acutely water constrained. It is vital that investments in water related infrastructure provide maximum social welfare per dollar spent. Furthermore, infrastructure must be designed to perform we…
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This dissertation consists of three theoretical and empirical essays. In all essays strategic behavior is a key factor. The first essay tries to explain certain pricing behaviors in cellular communication markets using social interactions as a basis for modeling. The second essa…
In most Sub-Saharan African countries, reliance on government financing for health care services has become increasingly untenable due to the fiscal crisis of the African state. International assistance for such services has also fallen since the global recession of the eighties…
Economists since Engel have recognized that the size and composition of a household effect its demand for goods and services. In the literature to date, the number and ages of children have been the main demographic variables that have been incorporated into the analysis of dema…
Applied researchers in demand analysis often assume explicitly that the commodities of interest are separable from many of the other goods in the utility function. Assuming a separable group allows for multistage budgeting and thus, the analyst can estimate a system of condition…
With dramatically growing food consumption, combined with the country's climatic conditions and water scarcity, Saudi Arabia depends heavily on food imports to cover the gap between domestic demand and local production. This increasing reliance on imports, along with expected ef…
The main purpose of this study is to examine the role of institutional developments on the behavior of the demand for money and velocity of money. The ability of policy makers in Saudi Arabia to conduct effective monetary policy has been discussed. This study has investigated th…
Integrated conservation and development (ICD) has become a dominant paradigm in management of tropical forests valued for both global ecological and local livelihood services. This dissertation examines ecotourism as a potential strategy for ICD, in a case study of Siberut Islan…
The objective of this study is to measure and compare the major factors influencing consumers' use of Public medical services and of Private medical services: Private doctor and Private nurse/paramedic/midwife, using a sample of adults from 1993 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFL…
This dissertation advances this literature on health care demand in lower income nations on several fronts. The first essay focuses on multinomial provider choice. It begins with a theoretical model where consumers make discrete choices among health care facility alternatives in…
With an increasing use of health services in England there is a political desire to alter demand patterns and re-design services to reduce spend. With a yearly 4% increase in ambulance service use a variety of generic health education initiatives have been tried to reduce demand…
South Georgia is renowned for the abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and a range of krill predators. Variability in krill availability at a range of scales, and the consequences of this for predator-prey interactions, mean that quantifying the spatially explicit de…
This dissertation empirically investigates the determinants of Saudi Arabia non-oil private investment in disaggregated form using time series analysis. The main motive behind this work is that such analysis has not been attempted before. The impact of growth of output (aggregat…
This dissertation investigates two related aspects of firms' choice of HRM practices. The first is why some firms expend a great deal of resources on HRM practices for each employee while others spend very little; the second is the extent to which firms' bundles of HRM practices…
This dissertation analyzes the demand for M2 in Malaysia under the cointegration/error-correction approach using monthly observations from August 1973 to December 1995. The Johansen (1988) and Johansen and Juselius (1990) cointegration technique is applied to evaluate the long-r…
Hunger relief organizations are important to provide safe and nutritious food to people who experience food insecurity. Predicting food demand is a challenge because of its stochastic nature and the complexity of the operations of these organizations. More so, the demand side of…