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(2023-08-07)The first chapter revisits Romer and Romer's (2004) narrative identification approach to monetary policy shocks by allowing a monetary authority to respond systematically to corporate credit spreads and real house price ...
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(2009-05-15)The dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the asymmetric effects of monetary policy on stock prices by using an unobserved components model with Markov-switching. My results show that monetary policy ...
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(2009-05-15)Multichannel marketing is the practice of simultaneously offering information, goods, services, and support to customers through two or more synchronized channels. In this dissertation, I develop an integrated framework ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation contains two essays which examine the roles that individual incentives, competition, and information play in network formation. In the first essay, I examine a model in which two competing groups offer ...
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(2009-05-15)Interorganizational alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation. A notable trend is the rapid growth of new product development (NPD) alliances between large, well-established firms and small, growing ...
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(2015-07-27)Global firms are increasingly moving new product development (NPD) to large emerging markets, such as India and China. In my dissertation, I study two potential NPD strategies that a global firm can pursue when entering ...
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(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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(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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(2013-09-30)When oil prices rise, politicians often call for improvements in energy efficiency or policies that they hope will make the U.S. more “energy independent.” The argument is that if we consume less oil, domestic supplies ...
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(2018-08-02)This dissertation investigates key issues related to online gaming communities. Across three essays, the author explores the effects of three factors―(1) social connection, (2) demarketing, and (3) game design―on game ...
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(2019-03-01)In this dissertation, I investigate operational issues in the context of online social networks and digital economy. The first essay analyzes the phenomenon of open technology in the context of resource allocation. In this ...
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(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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(2022-07-19)Scholars, politicians, and pundits have repeatedly described new Americans, mostly Asian Americans and Latinos, as a “Sleeping Giant” to emphasize their potential as the decisive voter who shuffles up traditional U.S. party ...
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(2019-03-11)My dissertation is inspired by challenging yet encouraging payment policies and operational issues in the U.S. healthcare system. Two of the three essays deliver policy implications for bundled payment reform models that ...
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(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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(2022-05-26)How do we conceptualize and precisely measure the effort of political leaders to control the military? Which external factors impact the degree to which political leaders seek to exert control over the military? And what ...
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(2021-04-21)A large part of the total charitable giving (approximately 70%) in the United States come from individuals with modest incomes (Giving USA, 2019[1] ). These small gifts accumulate in powerful ways to mitigate the pain of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Given the role electricity and natural gas sectors play in the North American economy, an understanding of how markets for these commodities interact is important. This dissertation independently characterizes the price ...
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(2013-09-20)Higher and more volatile food prices, as reported in recent years, have consequences on household welfare and potentially on public policy. Analysis of agricultural commodities price dynamics, welfare ...
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(2020-04-15)This dissertation consists of three studies that focus on price transmission analyses. The first study investigates the vertical transmission processes among the prices of Taiwanese pork, chicken, hen eggs, international ...