Browsing by Author "Saving, Thomas R."

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    • A Neglected Aspect of Tax Reform: Improving the Efficiency of Tax Expenditures on Employer-Provided Health Insurance 
      Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-11-01)
      The House recently passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the Senate now begins debate on its version of tax reform. Debate has centered on the tax reform's potential negative revenue effects and its disparate treatment of ...
    • Oligopolistic market behavior under deregulation 
      Jang, Si-Young (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)
      This dissertation provides an alternative framework and hypothesis for the study of olygopoly markets when firms compete against rivals by means of price and quality. For the expositional case of study, we refer to the ...
    • Optimal two-part tariffs for a monopoly firm 
      Conrad, Barbara Lynne (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      Recent developments in the telecommunications industry have generated a new interest in the subject of two-part tariffs as an alternative means of pricing telephone calls at the local level. The standard two-part tariff, ...
    • The Pandemic Federal Reserve: The First Two Years 
      Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-06-07)
      Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, developed world governments engaged in unprecedented spending. Federal Reserve securities holdings were an astounding 36.5% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product after two pandemic years. ...
    • Parameter selection in the Almon lag method: theory and practice 
      Harper, Charles Phillip (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1975)
      The Almon lag method for estimating the weights in a distributed lag model has often been applied to the Monetary versus Fiscal Policy debate. Unfortunately, empirical results have differed greatly, largely on the basis ...
    • Paying for Medicare Now and in the Future 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-03-01)
      Medicare celebrated its golden anniversary this past year. The program now provides insurance coverage for over 50 million Americans, and accounts for 20 percent of the nation's health care spending. Its shares of the ...
    • A Primer on Measures of Government Financing Shortfalls and Liabilities 
      Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-08-01)
      This note presents measures of financing shortfalls and liabilities, both for an individual government program such as Social Security and for government financing as a whole. At the level of individual programs, the widely ...
    • A regional forecasting model of the hospital sector 
      Smith, Dean Gordon (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)
      Rising costs and less certain revenues have made hospitals and administrators more aware of the need for accurate planning and budgeting. An important input in the expenditure budgeting process is knowledge of the prices ...
    • A relative frequency theory of consumer demand and planned income : an application to expenditure and income inequality measurement 
      Kitchen, Gary Norman (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)
      In this dissertation parameters of a particular specification (SPM Beta II - 1980) of the Relative Frequency Theory of Consumer Demand and Planned Income (RFTCD) proffered by Dr. R. L. Basmann are estimated using the method ...
    • Rethinking Federal Debt: What Do We Really Owe? 
      Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-08-01)
      Ever since the Federal Reserve began its series of Quantitative Easing Federal Reserve assets have increased fourfold. During this same period federal deficits have increased the level of publicly held debt by 260%. There ...
    • Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments 
      Liu, Liqun; Meyer, Jack; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-01-18)
      Firms seeking new products, investors backing competitors, and government agencies in search of design solutions are all examples of different models of contest design found in the marketplace. In PERC’s working paper ...
    • Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments 
      Liu, Liqun; Meyer, Jack; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-03-01)
      Contests by their very nature involve risk, winning and losing are both possible, and the gain from winning can itself be uncertain. The participants in a contest use resources to increase their chance of winning. The main ...
    • Sick leave accumulation: theory and empirical evidence 
      House, Donald Reed (Texas A&M University. Libraries, )
      This dissertation is an attempt to explain sick leave accumulation. The problem is approached with the traditional consumer maximization model where the individual faces an income and a time constraint. Sick leave enters ...
    • Staying the Course or Rolling the Dice: Time Horizon’s Effect on the Propensity to Take Risk 
      Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-02-06)
      Is the old adage that states that the young take more risk than the old correct? In PERC Working Paper 1902, authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving investigate this conventional wisdom in the context ...
    • A study of the effect of term structure of interest rates on the demand for money 
      Jamal, A. M. M. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)
      The demand for money has been a subject of considerable research in the past. Most of the empirical work to date has tried to determine whether a long-term rate of interest or a short-term rate is a better measure of the ...
    • Texas Movers 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-09-01)
      Population grows if migration into a state exceeds the migration out, combined with the natural increase of births over deaths. From 2010 - 2016, Texas had the largest population increase of any state, amassing almost 28 ...
    • A theoretical analysis of the effects of spatial competition on pricing 
      Hung, Chao-shun (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)
      There has been great controversy in recent theoretical discussions on the price effects of spatial competition. The central issue has been whether the general conclusions of classical price theory hold in a spatial context. ...
    • A theoretical-empirical investigation of usury laws 
      Crafton, Steven Mark (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)
      The concept of usury is found in Western man's earliest writings on ethical principles, e.g. the Bible and the works of Aristotle, and has been embodied in statutes forbidding (or limiting the rate of) interest. In the ...
    • Thermodynamics of amine-water solutions 
      Davison, Richard Read (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1971)
    • A transactions demand for foreign exchange 
      Saurman, David Scott (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)
      The demand for money is, in all likelihood, the most closely scrutinized of all possible demands examined by economists. However, the demands on part of private domestic agents to hold the monies of foreign countries has ...