Browsing by Department "Economics"
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(1991)The current commitment versus discretion debate in economic game theory describes the government's credibility problem quite well. The commitment versus discretion argument focuses on types of institutional arrangements ...
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(2010-07-14)This thesis compares two datasets, the Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 (SEI) and the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), and looks at the impact of sex on full-time annual salary while controlling for ...
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(2013-09-30)While China has traditionally had exceedingly high saving rates over generations, there has been a current trend towards a remarkable decrease in this tendency. The theory behind life cycle savings models suggests that ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Roughly one third of Medicare expenditures are made on behalf of beneficiaries in their terminal year, though only five percent of the Medicare-covered population dies annually. Per-capita spending on decedents is as much ...
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(2014-10-01)This paper examines the link between information and communications technology and microfinance performance. Information and communications technology, or ICT, could potentially provide a breakthrough for microfinance in ...
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(1989)A universal problem that exists in society is finding an optimal punishment that will deter individuals from a certain unwanted behavior. Sociologists, psychologists, economists and even businessmen have grappled with the ...
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(2020-04-16)In this dissertation I present three projects related to the topic demand and welfare in health economics by leveraging changes in technology, institutions and policies through quasi-experimental and experimental approaches. ...
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(2019-04-19)We perform a randomized control trial in which we provide students with a tool that visualizes empirical grade information of classes at a large public university. Visualization viewership is monitored and demand is linked ...
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(2010-01-20)The purpose of my thesis is to study what factors affect the adoption of impact fees in Texas and what effects impact fees have on city budgets. This research was done using two models. The first model looked at the adoption ...
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(2012-04-20)This paper studies the effect of changes in accident pattern due to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The extension of the DST in 2007 provides a natural experiment to determine whether the number of traffic accidents is affected ...
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(2012-02-14)MV is the traditional method to treat international portfolio selection problems, which bases its theory on the assumption of Normal Distribution. However, during economy recession the portfolio return turns out to be a ...
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(2012-07-16)We examine the determinants and drivers of 112 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities exceed 50 million values in the pharmaceutical industry using COMPUSTAT, SDC and FDA data during the period 1980-2010 with random ...
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(2009-05-15)The dissertation studies the relationship among durable goods, price indexes and monetary policy in two sticky-price models with durable goods. One is a one-sector model with only durable goods and the other is a two-sector ...
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(2013-08-06)This dissertation consists of three essays about heterogeneous agents in the dynamic economy and how to deal with the asymmetric information arose by heterogeneity. Firstly, I consider the optimal taxation issue in a ...
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Mobility literature in economics examines the distribution of earnings in a workforce. That research is motivated to better understand how workers can rise or fall in the distribution of earnings. However, with new and ...
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(2015-06-10)This dissertation contains two essays which examine the theory of model selection in econometrics and its applications. In the first essay, we utilize a model average approach to estimate a mixture copula. We average over ...
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(1987)Many businesses are not persuaded that advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) will bring large gains in manufacturing efficiency. The businesses, however, which rely upon traditional financial decision tools may be in ...
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(2018-07-30)This dissertation is about the U.S. automobile industry. In the first part, I study an environmental policy that ascribes a fee or a rebate to each new vehicle in the marketplace, depending on the vehicle’s fuel economy ...
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(2012-04-12)I conducted experiments to determine whether anonymity affects the gap between the willingness to accept (WTA) and willingness to pay (WTP) in endowment effect games. Plott and Zeiler (2005) theorize complete anonymity is ...
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(2013-12-16)Plea bargaining is a defining characteristic of the United States criminal justice system; according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 95% of the 1,079,000 felons convicted in state courts during 2004 pleaded guilty ...