The First essay:Estimating Oligopsony Power in the United States Market for Slaughter Hogs: An Error Correction Approach
Agricultural industrialization, the application of modern production methods to agriculture,has fundamentally altered the structure of the U.S. pork industry. New Empirical Industrial Organization,This approach, by accounting for short-run deviations from long-run equilibrium, makes more complete use of the information in the data to yield short- and long-run estimates of market power. The results of our model provide no statistically or economically significant evidence that pork processing firms engaged in anticompetitive conduct during the period from 1988 to 2000.

The Second essay: Estimating Oligopsony Power in the United States Market for Slaughter Hogs: An Error Correction Approach

The thesis espouses a new horizon for legal reasoning in foreign investment arbitration that eschews the lex lata veneer for lex ferenda propositions manufactured from precedents and principles, on the one hand, and the sheen of law for the conception of justice of investor-State arbitrators, on the other, in cases of hard confrontation between the demands of justice.