Browsing by Author "Puller, Steven L."
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Dai, Chaoyi (2020-11-16)In China, the soaring house prices made households form the anticipation of rising house prices. We analyzed the effect of housing policies when an expectation for the booming house market was formed. In this paper, we ...
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Hoekstra, Mark; Puller, Steven L.; West, Jeremy (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-04-01)The 2009 Cash for Clunkers program aimed to stimulate consumer spending in the new automobile industry, which was experiencing disproportionate reductions in demand and employment during the Great Recession. Exploiting ...
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Lee, Chia-Yen (2012-07-16)Demand fluctuations will bias the measurement of productivity and efficiency. This dissertation described three ways to characterize the effect of demand fluctuations. First, a two-dimensional efficiency decomposition ...
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Puller, Steven L.; Luco, Fernando; Hortacsu, Ali; Zhu, Dongni (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-04-01)Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimension--structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...
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Puller, Steven L.; Myers, Erica; West, Jeremy (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-11-22)Mandatory disclosure policies are increasingly prevalent despite sparse evidence that they improve market outcomes. We study the effects of requiring home sellers to provide buyers with certified audits of residential ...
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Martin, Thomas A., IV (2010-01-14)A recent pursuit of the auction design literature has been the development of an auction mechanism which performs well in a multi-good setting, when the goods are not substitutes. This work began in earnest with the Federal ...
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Scott, Jonathan Barrett (2018-06-20)This dissertation includes three essays related to energy and environmental economics, with an emphasis on policy. Topics discussed pertain to policies aimed at internalizing externalities, or encouraging adaptation to ...
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Nguyen, To Ngoc (2009-05-15)A large body of literature studies the issues of the option price and other ex-ante welfare measures under the microeconomic theory to valuate reductions of risks inherent in environment and human health. However, it does ...
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Zang, Hailing (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This dissertation uses recently developed empirical methodologies for the study of multi-unit auctions to test the impacts of Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs) on the competitiveness of restructured electricity markets. ...
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Cancho Diez, Cesar (2012-10-19)This dissertation contains two essays on the analysis of market imperfections. In the first essay, I empirically test whether in a three-level hierarchy with asymmetries of information, more competition among intermediaries ...
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Pofahl, Geoffrey Michael (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)In the words of Joel I. Klein, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, âÂÂ[a]ntitrust enforcement in the merger area has never been as time-consuming, complex, or as central to the functioning of our ...
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Karaca, Zeynal (2009-06-02)The U.S. pharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful in developing new treatments for many of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. These new treatments and their high prices lead government and private ...
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Hernandez Garcia, Manuel A. (2010-10-12)This dissertation investigates the effect of market concentration on nonlinear pricing strategies in the airline industry. The study develops a theoretical nonlinear pricing model with both discrete product and consumer ...
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Hortacsu, Ali; Madanizadeh, Seyed Ali; Puller, Steven L. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-06-01)Many jurisdictions around the world have deregulated utilities and opened retail markets to competition. However, inertial decisionmaking can diminish consumer benefits of retail competition. Using household-level data ...
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Hortacsu, Ali; Madanizadeh, Seyed Ali; Puller, Steven L.; Meer, Jonathan; Lim, Jaegeum (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)
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Olsen, Kyle (2011-02-22)The dynamics of the U.S. and Canada natural gas spot markets are evolving through deregulation policies and technological advances. Economic theory suggests that these markets will be integrated. The key question is the ...
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Zhang, Bei (2017-10-05)The widespread utilization of photovoltaic (PV) generation, and battery energy storage (BES) in mobile (Electrical Vehicles-EVs) and fixed form is bringing opportunities, as well as challenges to the power grid operation. ...
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Feng, Siyi (2012-07-16)This dissertation is composed of three essays, investigating two aspects of the role of agricultural sector in climate change mitigation: leakage and additionality. Leakage happens when mitigation policies reduce net GHG ...
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Mosquera Moyano, Roberto (2019-03-01)This dissertation presents three essays on the effects of different institutions, technologies, and shocks on health, education, labor and information outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs. ...
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Wang, Wei Wei (2012-10-19)This dissertation investigates three economic aspects of the climate change issue: optimal allocation of investment between adaptation and mitigation, impacts on a ground water dependent regional agricultural economy and ...