Browsing by Author "Wu, Ximing"
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Shin, Yoon Sung (2012-02-14)This dissertation contains three independent essays relating energy economics. The first essay investigates price asymmetry of diesel in South Korea by using the error correction model. Analyzing weekly market prices in ...
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Fei, Chengcheng (2019-07-28)Food Energy Water (FEW) Nexus is studied under water scarcity examine the economics of resource allocation and decision making among competing FEW users under the assumption that coordinated decision making would increase ...
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Vargas, Aurora Maria (2020-02-05)Water efficiency and a productive agriculture are key factors in our ability to meet future water and food demands under population growth and climate stressors. This study investigates freshwater supply, water use in ...
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Ju, Gaosheng (2012-10-19)This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies three applications. Each of them emphasizes the microfoundations of economic models. The first essay proposes a nonparametric estimation of structural labor supply ...
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Wu, Wenbin (2019-03-06)This dissertation includes three essays. In the first essay I study the problem of density estimation using normal mixture models. Instead of selecting the ‘right’ number of components in a normal mixture model, I propose ...
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Wen, Kuangyu (2015-05-07)This dissertation includes three essays. The first essay concerns nonparametric kernel density estimation on the unit interval. The Kernel Density Estimator (KDE) suffers boundary biases when applied to densities on bounded ...
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Da, Yabin (2022-01-14)Climate change and surface ozone have been proven to impose significant threats on crop productions and the interactions between these two factors further make the issue more complicated. Although the quantification of ...
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Mendez Ramos, Fabian (2013-05-15)This dissertation addresses: 1) the reliability of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasts generated by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) of Columbia University; 2) estimation of ...
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Hong, Sung Wook 1977- (2012-09-20)This dissertation examines three important issues in energy markets: price dynamics, information flow, and structural change. We discuss each issue in detail, building empirical time series models, analyzing the results, ...
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Lee, Sunyoung (2021-04-30)The research involves three studies. The first study examined state-level marijuana legalization and its impacts on crime rates. The second study explored the nudging technique—deliberate and impulsive type information—to ...
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Rhodes, Lauren Ainsley (2016-08-31)Climate plays an influential part in decision making by farmers by influencing the need and effectiveness of some inputs such as pesticides as well as expected yields. We look at the effect of climate variables and GMO ...
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Brummett, Robert George (2009-05-15)Benefits and consequences of controversial products are debated in the public arena for the protection of consumers and to evaluate the market decisions made by industry and government. The food industry continues to develop ...
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Yuan, Xiaotong (2020-04-09)The dissertation applies three different methods to reveal consumers’ attitude toward Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). I incorporate experimental economics methods, surveys and causal inference methods, by using ...
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Chen, Junyi (2017-05-02)Conflict in a country is socially expensive and many are trying to understand what factors stimulate it in an effort to figure out ways to lessen its incidence. In this work three essays are presented on factors that drive ...
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Fang, Lu (2017-01-25)This dissertation studies three important issues in Chinese financial markets. The interdependence structure and information transmission among Chinese cross-listed stocks in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York is examined. ...
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Zhang, Yuquan (2012-02-14)This dissertation investigates: (1) the implications of including high-yielding energy sorghum under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) program; (2) the effects of RFS2 with and without projected climate change scenarios ...
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Zhang, Yue (2015-08-03)This dissertation studies the relationship between time preference and addictive consumption. I first provide the theoretical background and the simulation results of an intertemporal choices model; then discuss the ...
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Wang, Chu (2016-04-28)The effectiveness of patent system design has been studied for decades from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. The existing literature demonstrates that innovations provide product diversity, supporting the ...
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Xu, Suli (2016-04-29)U.S. has consistently been the net importer of fresh fruit over decades. Studies suggest that the demand for fresh fruit will continue to increase because of the globalization of markets and U.S. policies. However, the ...
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Wei, Hanlin (2016-05-04)Agricultural activities account for nearly a quarter of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mainly from deforestation and livestock, soil and nutrient management. Also it is the biggest emitter of non-carbon dioxide ...