Browsing by Author "Wu, Ximing"
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Campbell, Benjamin Louis (2011-02-22)Healthy eating and food away from home expenditures are gaining increasing notoriety within the U.S. These issues are not only a concern for businesses, but governmental policy makers have also shown interest in both ...
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Long, Xinghua (2016-07-11)We study discrete resource allocation problems in which agents have unit demand and strict preferences over a set of indivisible objects. Such problems are known as house allocation problems. We define a new property that ...
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Ahmad, Ghufran (2017-05-02)In my dissertation, I focus on resource reallocation problem. Specifically, I consider the housing market problem. In this problem, there is a group of agents and a group of objects. Each agent owns at most one object and ...
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Park, Jiyun (2012-10-19)This dissertation investigates: (1) the climate change effects on the mean and higher order moments of crop yield distributions; (2) the effects of irrigation with and without its interactive terms with climate variables; ...
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Song, Bong Ju (2010-10-12)U.S. Treasury Securities are crucially important in many areas of finance. However, zero-coupon yields are not observable in the market. Even though published zero- coupon yields exist, they are sometimes not available for ...
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Li, Xinrong (2012-02-14)One of the very interesting demographic features in the US over the last three decades of the 20th century is the increase of the married women labor force participation rate. Over the same period, estimated labor supply ...
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Gao, Wenzheng (2018-05-01)This dissertation includes three chapters on microeconometrics with applications to social network. In the first chapter, we study identification and estimation of peer effects in a game theoretical social interaction model ...
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Zhang, Daiqiang (2017-03-24)Due to the fundamental role of asymmetric information in economic relations, during the past decades contracts have flourished and dedicated to how the information asymmetry and incentives induce strategic behavior among ...
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Chang, Meng-Shiuh (2012-10-19)This dissertation includes two essays. In the first essay, I proposed an alternative estimator for multivariate densities. This estimator can be characterized as a transformation based estimator. The first stage estimates ...
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Arunanondchai, Panit (2020-04-10)This dissertation consists of three stand-alone studies concerning applications of optimization modeling in agricultural policy evaluation and applications of copula when considering the tail risk in the energy commodity ...
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Qin, Xiaoyan (2012-07-16)This dissertation investigates the pricing behaviors of two major energy commodities, U.S. natural gas and crude oil, using times series models. It examines the relationships between U.S. natural gas price variations and ...
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Escobari Urday, Diego Alfonso (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This dissertation analyzes pricing under uncertainty focusing on the U.S. airline industry. It sets to test theories of price dispersion driven by uncertainty in the demand by taking advantage of very detailed information ...
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Li, Ke (2012-02-14)Conventional Cobb-Douglas and Transcendental Logarithmic production functions widely used in Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation and Inefficiency Analysis have merits and deficiencies. The Cobb-Douglas function imposes ...
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Yao, Hsin-Hung (2016-08-01)This dissertation contains two essays which propose tests for smooth structural changes in dependence and volatility, respectively. In the first essay, we propose a generalized likelihood ratio test for smooth structural ...
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Black, Michael Alexander (2021-06-01)In this dissertation, I estimate the value of soil and water quality improvements using revealed and stated preferences of anglers and farmers, respectively. I also identify the causal effect of a groundwater management ...
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Duangnate, Kannika (2015-11-25)Advances in production technology are increasing the availability of natural gas in the U.S. Examining how these technological advancements influence the dynamics in the natural gas and energy sectors is the subject here. ...
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Attavanich, Witsanu (2012-02-14)This dissertation analyzes the impact of climate, and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on crop yields and grain transportation. The analysis of crop yields endeavors to advance the literature by statistically estimating ...
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Villavicencio Cordova, Xavier A. (2010-07-14)In this dissertation, I study the effects of climate change on agricultural total factor productivity and crop yields and their variability. In addition, an examination was conducted on the value of select climate change ...
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Zohrabyan, Tatevik (2009-05-15)Financial market and its various components are currently in turmoil. Many large corporations are devising new ways to overcome the current market instability. Consequently, any study fostering the understanding of financial ...
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Shi, Yutang (2016-03-02)High dimensional factor models have drawn attention in both empirical and theoretical studies. Correctly specifying the number of factors (r) is a fundamental issue for the application of factor models. We develop an ...