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(2010-07-14)This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especially when non-discretionary inputs exist. A new approach of the multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for non-discretionary inputs, ...
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(2012-11-28)Markets have always changed in response to either exogenous or endogenous shocks. Many large events have occurred in financial and energy markets the last ten years. This dissertation examines market behavior and volatility ...
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(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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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)In this dissertation, three related issues of building empirical time series models for financial markets are investigated with respect to contemporaneous causality, dynamics, and structural change. In the first essay, ...
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(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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(2022-04-11)The global energy landscape is going through major shifts triggered by consumer preferences, regulations, and technological development. My dissertation develops optimization models to de-rive insights into strategic ...
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(2022-04-19)Evaluating the impacts of outcomes by governments, firms, and individuals is a pivotal component of economic analysis. In this dissertation, I apply ex-ante and ex-post techniques to analyze topics surrounding pollution ...
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(2009-05-15)In the first essay, we provide new evidence on the relationship between order flow and prices, an issue that is central to asset pricing and market microstructure. We examine proprietary data on a broad panel of NYSE-listed ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation improves upon the estimation of inflation equation, using the ad- ditional measures of distribution of price changes and the optimum choice of instru- mental variables. The measures of dispersion and ...
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(2019-03-13)Ethical concerns in business practice have received considerable attention in recent years. However, limited research has examined the role of ethical decision-making in supply chain management. My first essay examines the ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation contains three essays. They are related to the exponential series estimation of copulas and the application of parametric copulas in financial econometrics. Chapter II proposes a multivariate exponential ...
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(2016-07-11)Fairness is a central topic in ethics, political science and economics. A variety of economic questions, such as charitable donation, welfare programs, taxation of income and inheritances, are closely associated with ...
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(2016-07-27)In this dissertation, I study the role of a specific group of financial institutions, institutional investors, in the asset allocation process as well as in shaping corporate policies. The first essay investigates the role ...
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(2011-10-21)In this dissertation, I develop frameworks and models capturing the effects of marketing capital and R and D capital on firm growth and sustained membership in the Fortune 500 cohort. Drawing on the resource-based view ...
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(2022-06-16)Consumers often make decisions under uncertainty, which competing firms have to incorporate into their strategic decisions. My dissertation work aims to provide a better understanding of how consumer uncertainty about ...
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(2023-04-22)This dissertation investigates topics in macroeconomics related to fiscal policy and economic growth using both empirical and theoretical frameworks. In the first chapter, I explore whether changes in personal income ...
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(2022-06-23)To explore fiscal policy effects on the macroeconomy, in this dissertation, I study the time-varying effects of government spending on private investment and investigate the aggregate and disaggregate public capital ...
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(2022-12-09)Food and nutrition insecurity can be defined as household-level economic and social condition of limited access to adequate and nutritious food and is a major risk factor for health and nutrition related diseases in the ...
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(2012-10-19)In this dissertation, three related issues concerning empirical time series models for energy financial markets and the stock market were investigated. The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze the interdependence ...