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Essays in public finance
This thesis consists of three distinct essays in public finance economics. In the first I use the presence of minority candidates on the ballot to test two implications of the spatial theory of voting. I find, contrary to theoretical predictions, that the magnitude and types of voters who come out …
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Three essays in public finance
… approach, the results show that preemptive public investment can reduce the number of landslides, the number of people who die, are injured, or disappear after a landslide, as well as the number of people affected. However, I do not find it has any effect on the number of houses destroyed. …
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Three essays in public finance
… agency problems. In Chapter 2, titled “Valuing Public Goods More Generally: The Case of Infrastructure”, David Albouy and I examine the relationship between local public goods, prices, wages, and population in an equilibrium inter-city model. Non-traded production, federal taxes, and imperfect …
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Essays in local public finance
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987
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Essays in Econometrics and Public Finance
In recent years, natural experiments and randomized control trials (RCTs) have become increasingly common. Econometric evaluation of these data allows economic researchers and policymakers to assess the treatment effect of some intervention. Traditional approaches were often developed under the …
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Essays on Infrastructure Development and Public Finance
… the economics of infrastructure development and public finance. The dissertation is composed of three papers: The first paper analyzes the optimal solutions for supplying electricity to national economies from both domestic as well as distant energy resources using transmission systems that can …
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Essays on urban economics and public finance
Public finance studies the role of the government in the economy. Governmental actions influence economic activity across space. Moreover, urban economics examines cities and other geographic units to understand the spatial distribution of the economy. In this dissertation, I use applied …
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Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Policy
… of three chapters in environmental economics and public finance. The first chapter tests for adverse selection on private information in the market for flood insurance. Using detailed flood insurance policy microdata and newly available estimates of flood risk, I develop a measure of excess flood …
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Essays on Public Finance and Information Economics
This thesis comprises three chapters on public finance and information economics. The first focuses on the interaction of imperfect information in labor markets and the tradeoffs the government faces when setting on-linear taxes. The second focuses on the role of heterogeneity in elasticities in …
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Consumption heterogeneity in macroeconomics and public finance
This thesis consists of three chapters on households' consumption. In the first chapter we study the canonical consumption-savings income-fluctuations problem with incomplete markets and show theoretically how to recover households' preferences and beliefs from their consumption and savings …
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Essays in public finance and labor economics
… three questions of causality relevant to public finance and labor economics: the effect of racial segregation on city characteristics, the effect of divorce on women's economic outcomes, and the effect of abortion legalization on completed fertility. Chapter one examines the effect of …
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Essays on Local Public Finance and Financial Behavior
This dissertation focuses on two major topics. The first two essays examine the impact of local tax policies on local economy, while the third essay looks specifically at the behavioral effects of mobile payment and online shopping in China.The first essay examines the relationship between business …
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Essays in cooperative game theory and public finance
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:39:39Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
Athenian public finance underwent significant reform in the wake of the financial crisis that accompanied the Social War (357–5). Scholarly analysis of these changes, and of Athenian financial decisions in general, tends to pay little attention to the process of mass deliberation which produced …
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Three essays in economic theory and public finance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Three Essays on Private and Public Finance in Argentina
… on two broad topics related to private and public finance in Argentina during the 1990s. On the private finance side, the first 2 chapters analyze the issue of bank efficiency. In chapter 1, cost ""X""-inefficiency of financial institutions is estimated via the Distribution-Free Approach, …
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Information, Risk, And Behavior: Evidence From The Public Finance Market
Using ITS design approaches, I analyze the public finance market in the context of a 2012 SCOTUS decision. I find that the court decision had significant effects on investor behavior in the hospital sector of the public finance market as manifested in trade volume and price changes. These effects …
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Comparative Public Finance: Sustainability and Political Feasibility of Pension Reforms
… uses a mixed-methods approach – including public opinion surveys of 3,000+ individuals, semi-structured elite interviews, historical document analyses, and specialized fiscal and actuarial projections of selected pension reforms in the three selected countries. It addresses three core …
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Economists and the state: An Austrian critique of public finance economics
This thesis critiques public finance economics from an Austrian school perspective. The critique employs property rights and Austrian method and economic theory; Chapter I provides a brief discussion of Austrian method. This is an important chapter because most of the criticisms offered in this …
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