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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Dynamic Discrete Choice"”.
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Dynamic Discrete Choice Estimation using Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Online Food Markets
Dynamic Discrete Choice (DDC) models are widely used to analyze sequential decision-making in economics and marketing. However, their estimation remains computationally challenging, especially as state spaces expand, limiting their application to large-scale consumer datasets. This thesis develops …
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Essays in Econometrics: Nonparametrics and Robustness
… In Chapter 3 I consider methods for inference in dynamic discrete choice models that are robust to approximation error in the solution to the dynamic decision problem. Estimation and inference in dynamic discrete choice models often relies on approximation to lower the computational burden of …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… that employ similar workers. I estimate a dynamic discrete choice occupational model to quantify the labor supply and turnover elasticities in this industry. In addition, I simulate the impact of wage supplementation programs.
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Three Essays In Applied Econometrics
… 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 the Great Recession, on mortgage default rates, as well as its monetary benefit to the government. I find that HARP led …
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Essays in Environmental and Development Economics
… give in to static incentives. I develop a dynamic empirical framework for quantifying these forces in settings with incomplete regulation and sunk investment, and I apply it to the market for palm oil, a major driver of deforestation and one of the largest sources of emissions globally. …
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Essays on Microeconometrics
… Bugni, considers the problem of inference in dynamic discrete choice problems when the structural model is locally misspecified. We consider two popular classes of estimators for dynamic discrete choice models: K-step maximum likelihood estimators (K-ML) and K-step minimum distance estimators …
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Essays In Mortgage Markets And Public Investment Cycles
… when mortgage rates declined significantly. A dynamic discrete choice model of refinancing and search decisions is estimated using a proprietary panel data set. Search costs significantly inhibit refinancing through two channels. First, higher search costs directly increase refinancing cost. …
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Essays on Health Economics
… to have important influence on individuals' choices. Specifically, I look into the relationship between US elderly's subjective longevity expectation biases and their smoking choices. I find that US elderly tend to over-emphasize the importance of their genetic makeup but underestimate the …
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Post-secondary Students' Travel Behavior through the Lens of Urban and Rural Contexts
… addresses gaps in understanding how activity choices, departure time decisions, and active transportation behaviors are shaped by contextual, demographic, and policy factors. Two studies utilize the StudentMoveTO dataset, a detailed activity-travel diary survey from the Greater Toronto and …
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Essays in International Economics and Macroeconomics
… geographically correlated consumption location choices. The final chapter provides a novel mechanism by which persistent noise in signals endogenously generates optimism through dynamic learning. The first chapter develops a sufficient statistics approach to evaluate the impact of sectoral …
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Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
… additionally adopt structural models, including dynamic game of entry and exit from empirical industrial organization and quantitative spatial model from urban and spatial economics. Below I briefly introduce each chapter. In Chapter 1, I study the cost impacts of minimum parking requirements …
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Essays on strategic social interactions : evidence from microfinance and laboratory experiments in the field
… 10-15pp more likely to repay. Last, I present a dynamic discrete choice model of the repayment decision to estimate the net benefit of the peer mechanism to the MFI. Repayers' positive influence on others (not non-repayers' negative influence) mainly drives the effect. Thus, peer effects actually …
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Essays on International Trade
… Motivated by these facts, I then develop a dynamic discrete choice model of a firm's decision to import and export. A firm needs to pay either sunk costs to initiate an activity or fixed costs to maintain that activity, anticipating that the decision would impact its future productivity and …