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Empirical Likelihood With Applications
Empirical likelihood, first introduced by Thomas and Grunkemeier (1975) and later extended in Owen (1988, 1990), is an effective and flexible nonparametric method based on a data-driven likelihood ratio function. It enjoys many advantages over other nonparametric methods, such as automatic …
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Essays in Empirical Economics
This thesis consists of three essays in empirical economics. The first two essays explore whether and how trade policies impact individual firms decision-making and how these decisions affect economic growth in developing countries. Specifically, in the first essay, I study whether improved access …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
This thesis is a collection of five essays in empirical macroeconomics. The first paper evaluates the effectiveness of fiscal policy in different economic environments. The results show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, fiscal multipliers are not necessarily smaller in countries relatively …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
This thesis is a collection of five essays in empirical macroeconomics. The first paper evaluates the effectiveness of fiscal policy in different economic environments. The results show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, fiscal multipliers are not necessarily smaller in countries relatively …
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Essays in empirical finance
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
… Distribution: Evidence from China, provides an empirical estimation of the effects of minimum wages using a Chinese household survey. I introduce new instrumental variables, relating to transport costs and local productivity, to control for the potential median wage endogeneity. The instrument …
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Essays in empirical finance
… consists of three essays on various topics in empirical financial studies. In Chapter 1, I study the profitability of momentum trading from evidence in mutual fund performance. I find that mutual funds that exhibit a strong momentum trading pattern earn significant risk-adjusted returns …
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Essays in empirical microeconomics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Essays in empirical finance
The first chapter in my thesis investigates the association between selected hedge fund characteristics and persistence in performance over time. Analyzing TASS data from 1996-2006, I observe a positive correlation between persistence in good performance and fund size, as well as age. Furthermore, …
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Essays in empirical microeconomics
… thesis consists of three essays addressing open empirical questions in applied microeconomics. Chapter 1 attempts to quantify the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. I use historical data on past yearly weather fluctuations and crop yields to measure the effect of these weather …
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Essays in empirical macroeconomics
This thesis consists of two separate essays. The first, entitled 'The Long Boom', considers the causes of the recent record breaking growth in the United States. The second, entitled 'Markups and Inflation', looks at the relationship between markups and inflation in the US and OECD. The first essay …
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Essays in Empirical Development Economics
This thesis consists of three empirical chapters that examine issues in development economics. Chapter 1 focuses on the effects of civil wars on the welfare of individuals. I use a unique data set that contains information on war casualties of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, and exploit the variation in …
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ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE
… of two chapters exploring several aspects of empirical corporate finance with a special focus on founder CEOs and family firms. Chapter 1 focuses on the impact of founder CEO leadership on firm value in publicly listed U.S. firms. Previous research on how founder CEOs affect firm value shows …
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Narcissistic illusions : an empirical typology
The purpose of this study is to examine whether a typology of narcissism can be identified through various statistical analyses, specifically cluster analysis. Furthermore, this study attempted to further delineate whether claims of a dual nature of narcissism are well founded and to examine the …
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Empirical analyses on international investments
… of international diversification. Hence, it empirically examines and provides new insights into three different aspects related to suboptimal international investments: determinants of suboptimal foreign allocation, the impact of such suboptimal allocation on the cost of debt, and a possible …
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Empirical models for cyclic voltammograms
… this thesis we investigate a range of empirical models for cyclic voltammograms<br/>with a Bayesian perspective, using data from experiments carried out in the School<br/>of Chemistry, University of Southampton. This work is motivated by the lack of well<br/>formulated mathematical …
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Some aspects of empirical likelihood
… chapter 3, Asymptotic Optimality of Empirical Likelihood Tests With Weakly Dependent Data, we extend the result of Kitamura (2001) to stationary mixing data. The key thing inproving the large deviation optimality is that the empirical measure of the independently and identically …
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EMPIRICAL ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC POLICIES
… of this study is to test Friedman's proposition empirically for 12 selected countries from G20 during 1980 to 2010. Our findings suggest that both price level and output have similar responses to monetary innovation in most sample countries, which is not consistent with Friedman's proposition. …
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