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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Applied Econometrics"”.
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Essays on applied econometrics
… consists of three independent essays on applied econometrics. The first chapter extends the model averaging estimator (Hansen, 2007) to the time series scenario. To this end, I propose a Mallows model averaging autocorrelation corrected (MAC) estimator, in which the tapered estimator …
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Essays in applied econometrics
This dissertation is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I study the effects of texting and handheld cell phone bans on the traffic crash fatalities in the United States. In the second chapter, I analyze the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the Value-at-Risk of the companies with …
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Essays in applied econometrics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Topics in applied econometrics
Chapter 1 focuses on the problem of predicting equilibrium outcomes in large online auction markets. For online retailers, content publishers, and search engines, predicting how the behavior of their auction markets might respond to policy changes is an important business problem. However, this …
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Three Essays In Applied Econometrics
In this thesis, I use both structural- and reduced-form econometric models to analyze economic issues relating to the mortgage and labour markets. In chapter 2, I use a dynamic discrete choice model to quantify the impact of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) in the United States during …
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Three essays in applied econometrics
This dissertation includes three chapters. Chapter 2 focuses on the threshold effect of credit on economic development of 17 developed countries throughout history from the late 1800s. Chapter 3 re-investigates the role of foreign aid in developing countries, emphasising the diminishing returns, …
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Essays in Behavioural Economics & Applied Econometrics
A long body of literature in behavioural economics has demonstrated that individuals perform poorly in understanding how past outcomes relate to future outcomes in experimental settings. This thesis studies the ability of individual decision makers to incorporate information about previous …
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Flourishing Opportunities: Four essays in Applied Econometrics
This thesis comprehends four essays investigating strategies to fight against poverty. The first essay explores a series of police operations to pacify the slums of Rio de Janeiro to understand the impacts of intrauterine exposure to violence on birth outcomes. One argues that pregnancies starting …
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Essays in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics
… proliferation of rich healthcare datasets and econometrics tools, this presents an exciting avenue for research. In the first chapter of this thesis, I consider one potential explanation for why competition has not driven low-quality nursing homes out of the market or induced them to increase …
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Three Essays in Applied Econometrics: with Application to Natural Resource and Energy Markets
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Chapter 1</p> <p>This essay examines the effect of state renewable energy policies in inducing innovation and the spillover effect of these policies on innovation in neighboring states. The analysis is conducted with patent data related to renewable technology using wind power …
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Applications of Applied Econometrics in the Food and Health Economic and Agribusiness Topics
This dissertation consists of three essays in Applied Econometrics that seek a better understanding of different aspects of risk and risk management tools. The first essay is about mortality risk in Virginia coal regions. With a focus on the mortality of non-malignant respiratory diseases (NMRD), I …
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Advances in Applied Econometrics: Binary Discrete Choice Models, Artificial Neural Networks, and Asymmetries in the FAST Multistage Demand System
… the methods and techniques used in the field of econometrics. These advancements include: (i) a re-examination of the underlying statistical foundations of statistical models with binary dependent variables. (ii) using feed-forward backpropagation artificial neural networks for modeling …
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Three essays on nonlinear panel data models and quantile regression analysis
… of three independent essays in theoretical and applied econometrics, organized in the form of three chapters. In the first two chapters, I investigate the properties of parametric and semiparametric fixed effects estimators for nonlinear panel data models. The first chapter focuses on fixed …
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Studies of inflation and forecasting.
… contains five research papers in the area of applied econometrics. The two broad themes of the research are inflation and forecasting. The first two papers examine the topic of core inflation. In these papers, I construct core inflation measures and rank them according to various criteria, …
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Model Uncertainty & Model Averaging Techniques
… more light on the issue of model uncertainty in applied econometrics in general and cross-country growth as well as happiness and well-being regressions in particular. Model uncertainty consists of three main types: theory uncertainty, focusing on which principal determinants of economic growth …
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Essays on identification and semiparametric econometrics
… of three independent essays in theoretical and applied econometrics. The first chapter analyzes dynamic games with continuous states and controls. There are two main contributions. First, we give conditions under which the payoff function is nonparametrically identified by the observed …
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Essays on urban economics and public finance
… of the economy. In this dissertation, I use applied econometrics to understand variations in the spatial distribution of economic activity that are related to government taxation and other factors. In Chapter 1, I use unique data on locations and prices of gasoline retailers in the United …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… consists of three research papers in Applied Microeconomics. Each paper uses an econometric technique to analyze a problem related to human behavior. The first paper examines the separate effects of time and location of the School Breakfast Program on participation and consumption of …
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Three essays on spatial econometrics with an emphasis on testing
… Modeling has been one of the important parts in Applied Econometrics as well as Econometrics Theory in the past thirty years, not only because of the nature that the geographic locations and interactions play a crucial role in forming behavior, but also because of the challenging problems …
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Three essays in spatial econometrics
… recently gained a more central place not only in applied econometrics but also in theoretical econometrics. The standard econometric techniques often fail in the presence of spatial autocorrelation, which is commonplace in geographic (cross-sectional) data sets, and thus giving misleading …
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