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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Spatial Durbin Model"”.
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Territorial Challenges and Sustainable Regional Development. A mixed-method approach
… aggregation; meta-frontier benchmarking and a Spatial Durbin Model separate local efficiency from structural disadvantage and reveal spatial spillovers. Chapter 2 tests whether Protected Areas reduce landscape fragmentation using a boundary-based regression discontinuity design on CORINE Land …
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Modeling Food Commodity Prices and Market Dynamics
… and Smooth Transition Vector Error Correction models), the analysis uncovers asymmetric effects of ENSO shocks. A ±1.5°C deviation in ENSO-related temperatures generates price shifts of 10–20 percent. Warmer El Niño phases tend to depress prices, while cooler La Niña phases raise them. These …
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Essays on Local Public Finance and Financial Behavior
… the project contributes by examining the spatial link between local business activity in contiguous counties. The second essay examines how business activity responds to local taxation through the property tax and the local sales tax. We use county-level data for Nevada for the period …
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Essays on Public Economics and Spatial Econometrics
… purpose of this study is to investigate the spatial interdependence of fiscal variables (budget balance, tax revenue, and public expenditure) and the spillover effect of conflict on the level of local jurisdictions. The first study provides an empirical investigation of fiscal interactions in …
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Gender inequality and food security in a changing climate: a spatial analysis using Nigerian general household survey
This study investigates the spatial and gender dynamics of food insecurity in Nigeria, a country besieged by rising inequality and climatic vulnerabilities. The thesis estimates and analyses how climate-related risk differentials influences both genders, especially women with particular interest on …
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Essays on Health and Medical Care
… by market. My two essays apply econometrics models to investigate the effects of public policies and hospital quality on health and medical care. Specifically, the first essay examines whether welfare programs affect the health outcomes and medical utilization of children in the low-income …
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Essays on transport economics
… the first two steps in the traditional four-step model for traffic assignment: trip generation and trip distribution. The trip generation step determines the frequency or volume of trips in each zone, and the trip distribution step matches the origin with the destination of corresponding flows. …
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The Dynamics of the Spread of COVID-19 in Kansas
… Such analysis may hide region specific temporal, spatial, and societal dynamics of the disease that influence its spread. My two part-study investigates the dynamics of the spread of COVID-19 in Kansas by dividing the timeline for the COVID-19 outbreak into phases based on key events, …
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Hypothesis testing for spatial SARAR Tobit models and high dimensional data and their applications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Social disorganisation theory and violent crime: A spatial-econometric analysis of Chicago and Sydney
The spatialisation of violent crime is explored in two large case studies, Chicago and Sydney, using spatial econometric methods and macro-sociological variables derived from Social Disorganisation Theory. Social Disorganisation Theory (SDT) is introduced in terms of its formulation in response to …
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Essays in Spatial Econometrics: Estimation, Specification Test and the Bootstrap
… three chapters covering the following topics in spatial econometrics: estimation, specification and the bootstrap.</p><p>In Chapter 1, we first generalize an approximate measure of spatial dependence, the APLE statistic in Li et al (2007), to a spatial Durbin (SD) model. This generalized APLE …