- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The impact on demand and supply of plywood and veneer sheets in the United States, Canada, Japan, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast between 1965 - 1982, 1986
- Creator:
- Apichatabutra, Suteera
- Date of Original:
- 1986-07-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This thesis is concerned with a quantification of the effects of prices of plywood and veneer sheets, income, construction index, consumer price index, interest rate, exchange rate, and oil price index on demand and supply of plywood and veneer sheets in the United States, Canada, Japan, Ghana and the Ivory Coast. First, a Marshallian demand function�theory of consumer behavior� is employed through the use of simultaneous equations and two-stage least squares techniques to estimate the parameters of the demand model. Lastly, a dynamic approach is used to estimate the income effects of the demand for plywood and veneer sheets. The objective of this thesis is the focus on consumer behavior with respect to plywood and veneer sheets in developed and developing countries. Exporters and importers in the international markets are the key determinants of foreign exchange earnings necessary for develop-ment in most developing countries. The results of this study found that if the policymaker slightly raises the price of plywood and veneer sheets in the United States, Canada, Japan and Ghana, then it would not have much effect on the change in demand for plywood and veneer sheets because the price elasticity is inelastic. However, in the Ivory Coast, the price change will have much effect on the demand for plywood and veneer sheets because the price elasticity is elastic. Income elasticities of demand in the United States, Canada, Ghana and the Ivory Coast are elastic. This means that if income changes by a small amount, then it would have a lot of effect on the demand for plywood and veneer sheets. But in Japan, income elasticity of demand for plywood and veneer sheets is inelastic. This means that a change in income will not have much effect on the demand for plywood and veneer sheets.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1986_apichatabutra_suteera.pdf
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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