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Showing 1 to 20 of 480 for “"Economics, General."”.
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Consequences of Tobacco Control Policies: Intended and Unintended.
Consequences of Tobacco Control Policies: Intended and Unintended.
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The impact of alcohol control policies on alcohol use and abuse among college students.
The impact of alcohol control policies on alcohol use and abuse among college students.
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THE DYNAMIC EXCHANGE RATES' ADJUSTMENT TO THE RELATIVE PRICE MOVEMENT.
THE DYNAMIC EXCHANGE RATES' ADJUSTMENT TO THE RELATIVE PRICE MOVEMENT.
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Determinants of intermarriage in the United States among immigrants and the native born.
Determinants of intermarriage in the United States among immigrants and the native born.
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Macroeconomic effects of foreign direct investment inflows on the host country.
Macroeconomic effects of foreign direct investment inflows on the host country.
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Three essays on the economics of corruption
This thesis contains three essays on the economics of corruption. The first essay presents a game-theoretic analysis of the Japanese defense market. The second essay presents a model---formulated from the mechanism design perspective---for analyzing the reemployment of high-ranking Japanese …
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Essays on Empirical Analysis of Continuous-Time Models of Industrial Organization
<p>The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay describes and estimates the model of bidding on eBay. Internet auctions (such as eBay) differ from the traditional auction format in that participants 1) typically face a choice over several simultaneous auctions and 2) often have …
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Optimal Monetary Policy and Oil Price Shocks
… policy in the medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (henceforth DSGE) of Schmitt-Grohe and Uribe (2005). To model the demand for oil, I use the approach of Finn (2000). According to this approach, the utilization of capital services requires oil usage. In the related …
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Unified Ordinal Regression: Model Assessment and Semiparametric Analysis
… We develop EM algorithms for censored data in general, and also develop a weighted least squares algorithm for cumulative link models for ordinal responses.
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Essays on Market Microstructure, Behavioral Finance, and Asset Management
Finally, in the last chapter we use daily observations from 448 actively managed funds and employ the empirical strategy of Bollen and Busse (2001) to assess the ability of fund managers to time systematic risk factors. We construct synthetic portfolios to obtain the empirical distribution of …
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An Empirical Approach Toward Understanding the Linkage of Legal and Financial Institutions
Researchers have made different attempts to investigate the interaction between the quality and efficiency of a country's institutions and a country's economic performance. Within this framework, emphasis has been put on the relationship between the legal institutions and the financial system as …
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Political Economy of Communication Industry Reorganization: Republic of Korea, 1987--2002
In addition, the dissertation maps out the characteristics and process of communication policies in Korea. It selects several major communication policies, including privatization issues, which directly impacted on the transformation of the communication industry. It figures out why and how the …
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Markov-Based Analysis of Life -Cycle Employment Profiles
With respect to labor force participation, we first find that the employment gender gap is driven primarily by the higher exit rates of women from full-time employment and to a lesser extent by the transitions of women from part-time employment. Secondly, we find that the pattern of part-time …
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Essays on Urban Economics
Second part of thesis explores the connection between the property tax and urban sprawl. While the tax's depressing effect on improvements reduces population density, spurring the spatial expansion of cities, a countervailing effect from lower dwelling sizes may dominate, raising densities and …
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The Pricing of Pharmaceuticals by Online and Traditional Retailers: An Empirical Examination
Unlike the previous research, the principal findings of this thesis support the premise that retail marketplace on the Internet is more competitive than the brick-and-mortar marketplace. For the retail pharmacy market, I found that online price levels were lower for both over-the-counter and …
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Semiparametric Estimation of Binary Response Valuation Models
Chapter 3 presents a comparison of the welfare measures obtained through KSE and binary quantile regression. Results obtained indicate that KSE welfare measures are closer to the quantiles approach than the standard logit. However, the differences in the welfare measures suggest that the KSE fail …
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Essays in Economic *Growth and Asset Pricing
… to exhibit long range dependence, which generalizes the specification in previous studies. Using semi-parametric estimation procedures we find ample evidence of pairwise convergence among 15 OECD countries. This result is contrary to the literature that uses unit roots and cointegration …
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A Study on Locally Persistent Time Series
While it is recognized that many economic time series are highly persistent over certain ranges, less persistent results are also found around very long horizons, indicating the existence of local or temporary persistency. Seeking to describe the dynamics of locally persistent processes, this …
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Essays on Tax Increment Financing
This dissertation consists of three essays on Tax Increment Financing (TIF), focusing on TIF use in Illinois. TIF is a popular economic development tool that allows for the funding of municipal improvements from increases in property tax revenue brought about by the municipal improvements. The …
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