Browsing by Department "Economics"
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(2020-06-16)Department: EconomicsFollowing the 2008 Financial Crisis, the field of Macroeconomics entered a remarkable phase of methodological transformation. The reason for this is twofold. First, the standard approach of locally approximating equilibrium ...
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(2009-05-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies affiliation and entry in first-price auctions, accomplishing three goals. First, it develops a simple approach to test for affiliation among bidders' private information and applies the approach ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: EconomicsBetween 1933 and 1970, over 1 million units of public housing were built with federal funds and operated by local public housing agencies. New building was subsequently curtailed as many came to believe that public housing ...
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(2006-04-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers individuals’ behavioral responses to two major forms of public investment in education designed to increase educational opportunities: Head Start and reductions in class size. Head Start ...
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(2008-10-10)Department: EconomicsMy dissertation studies the dynamics of primary commodity prices empirically and theoretically. In Chapter II, I provide empirical evidence on the time series behavior of commodity price movements. Employing monthly prices ...
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(2012-04-24)Department: EconomicsHow are macroeconomic measures affected by local geography, housing and education? This study tests regional purchase parity data as a dependent variable subject to location, housing prices and estimations of post-secondary ...
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(2009-06-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies the distributions of treatment effects in switching regimes models (SRMs). First, we propose a general class of SRMs and provide simple estimators of average treatment effects. Second, we establish ...
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(2005-06-01)Department: EconomicsThis study contributes to the scarce empirical literature on dollarization by investigating the short and long-run effects of dollarization on the dynamics of prices at the macro and the micro level. This study also presents ...
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(2006-09-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation employs high-frequency data and techniques to examine various topics in financial markets. Chapter 1 compares forward regression model with eight statistical/practical trading exchange rate models in terms ...
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(2019-07-10)Department: EconomicsStrategic interactions change the outcome and the duration of a trade agreement, but it is hard to estimate their effects. First, countries chose their partners in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) based on other countries’ ...
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(2006-03-27)Department: EconomicsA criminal case is disposed by a series of selection processes – the prosecutor’s indictment, the defendant’s plea choice, and the judge’s or jury’s trial verdict. This study examines how each selection process shapes the ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: EconomicsImproving population health, educating adolescents, and reducing crime rates are all goals that economists and policy makers share. To practice evidence-based decision making, policy makers must be informed about how ...
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(2018-05-16)Department: EconomicsChoosing college and field of study is important as it shapes individuals' earnings, working conditions, and lifestyles. Economists are interested in knowing determinants of education decisions, how various mechanisms and ...
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(2015-06-08)Department: EconomicsMicroeconomic factors are getting more attention by macro economists as potential indicators and driving forces of macroeconomic conditions. In the first chapter, I employ a modified version of the long run risk model and ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three essays related to consumer financial issues of often struggling and low-income populations. The first chapter studies the joint use of payday loans and pawnshop loans. While these two ...
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(2006-06-30)Department: EconomicsA widely accepted feature of financial markets across the world is that there are limits to access credit. While this problem is extremely acute at times of economic crisis and recession, it is also prevalent at times of ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: EconomicsChapter 1 of this dissertation is titled “Social Security Eligibility and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Administrative Data”. I estimate the impact of Social Security receipt and retirement on healthcare utilization ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three essays in health economics and policy. In the first essay, “Health Insurance Take-up Among the Near-Elderly in the Age of the Affordable Care Act,” I pair the exogenous transition of ...
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(2015-07-01)Department: EconomicsExcessive alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking are two activities that may have large negative impacts on health. Countless laws and research have focused on these activities because of the severity of their outcomes. ...
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(2018-06-15)Department: EconomicsTrade reform is an important policy tool as it: governs access to foreign markets and the organization of global supply chains; influences international trade flows; and has implications for consumer welfare in a given ...