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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Simulated Method of Moments"”.
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Essays on Housing Market Search and Dynamics
… market. The first paper looks at the effects of equity constraints and loss aversion on the home selling problem. The empirical findings are consistent with a search model where sellers with low equity in their homes and sellers subject to nominal losses have higher reservation prices because …
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Essays in financial economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on asset pricing, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium and structural estimation of dynamic models. Chapter 1 introduces a global, nonlinear numerical method to solve a large class of continuous-time models in economics and finance. Using modern tools from …
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Product Differentiation in International Trade
This thesis is concerned with the role of product quality in explaining observed price and trade patterns. The first chapter introduces the topic, summarizes the main findings of the dissertation and contrasts them to other results in the literature. The second chapter develops a tractable general …
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Essays on Taxation, Marriage, and Labor Supply
My dissertation consists of three essays on labor supply responses, along the extensive margin (participation into the labor force) and along the intensive margin (intensity of work on the job). The first two essays focus on the labor supply responsiveness of single women with children to taxation …
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An Empirical Study of the Causes and Consequences of Mergers in the Canadian Cable Television Industry
This dissertation consists of three essays that study mergers and consolidation in the Canadian cable television industry. The first essay provides a historical overview of regulatory and technical change in the industry, and presents the dataset that I constructed for this study. The basic pattern …
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Copulas for High Dimensions: Models, Estimation, Inference, and Applications
<p>The dissertation consists of four chapters that concern topics on copulas for high dimensions. Chapter 1 proposes a new general model for high dimension joint distributions of asset returns that utilizes high frequency data and copulas. The dependence between returns is decomposed into linear …
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Essays on Information in Financial Markets
… 1 demonstrates how to jointly quantify the size of search and information frictions in OTC markets. I use transaction data for the U.S. corporate bond market to structurally estimate a model featuring both frictions via the simulated method of moments. The data support the notion that trades are …