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(2010-01-14)I consider continuous time asset pricing models with stochastic differential utility incorporating decision makers' concern with ambiguity on true probability measure. In order to identify and estimate key parameters in ...
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(2009-06-02)This dissertation is a compilation of essays highlighting the usefulness of game theory in understanding socio-economic phenomena. The second chapter tries to provide a reason for the strict codes of conduct that have been ...
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(2016-05-02)This dissertation includes three essays, which address significant issues that healthcare practitioners throughout the world face today. The fundamental research that I first address is a research agenda for reimbursement ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)In past years a large number of papers have appeared that extend the familiar IS-LM model to a macro analysis for open economies. The two interesting issues in these writings are (1) macro theory of devaluation under fixed ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation contains three essays in international macroeconomics and financial time series forecasting. In the first essay, I show, numerically, that a two-country New-Keynesian Sticky Prices model, driven by monetary ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The objectives of this dissertation are to examine (1) static and dynamic labor supply behavior of individuals and (2) the separability of commodities from leisure. While these topics are concerned with labor supply behavior ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)Monetary policy has been given either too many positive attributes or, in contrast, only economy-disturbing features. Central banks must take into account a wide variety of factors to achieve a proper characterization of ...
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(2018-05-06)This dissertation includes two essays in nonlinear labor income taxation with tax-driven migrations. In the first essay, we study optimal nonlinear income taxation in an open economy with migration possibilities and social ...
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(2016-06-28)I present three essays pertaining to the management of supply chain risks in this dissertation. The first essay and the second essay analyze supply chain risks from a financial perspective, while the third essay analyzes ...
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(2019-05-31)The competitive environment of a firm shapes its financial policies. With the rise in the concentration of US industries, fewer listed firms, and reduced competition, questions about the effect of competition on firm ...
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(2015-12-15)There are three primary goals of financial management: to help a firm weather environmental turbulence, to allow a firm to grow, and to make safe revenue choices to keep a firm operational. What is often disregarded in ...
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(2020-07-15)The economics of altruistic behavior, and specifically the economics of charitable giving, is a large and rich field of research. This is not without cause: charitable giving is a significant household decision. We contribute ...
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(2020-05-01)The impacts of access to health care and protective services on health and wellness outcomes are important to understand, yet difficult to measure. To establish these causal relationships, researchers need an exogenous ...
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(2010-10-12)One of the very interesting demographic features in the US over the last several decades is the persistent racial educational gap between blacks and whites and the reverse gender education gap as a result of the rapid rise ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation builds on earlier works by analyzing the provision of product quality by a monopolist and comparing that to a social planner. This paper extends the analysis of this problem to the discrete quality setting. ...
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(2011-10-21)We propose an asset pricing model in a production economy where cash flows are determined by firms' optimal dividend and investment decisions. Extensive and intensive decision margins in dividend payout are modeled with ...
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(2012-12-05)Climate factors like precipitation and temperature, being closely intertwined with agriculture, make a changing climate a big concern for the entire human race and its basic survival. Adaptation to climate is a long-running ...
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(2019-04-10)Functional verification is used to confirm that the logic of a design meets its specification. The most commonly used method for verifying complex designs is simulation-based verification. The quality of simulation-based ...
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(2019-11-25)These essays cover the economics of shrink in cattle and explore price relationships of the wholesale meat market for beef, pork, lamb, and poultry. The first essay utilizes a mixed effects model to analyze factors that ...