Browsing by Author "Wu, Ximing"
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Wang, Qiaoyu (2023-07-05)This dissertation focuses on the estimation and inferential issues of panel data models with a multiplication form of time and individual fixed effects, named interactive fixed effects. This flexible form is attractive in ...
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Navas Alban, Paul (2015-08-10)The analysis of the effects of a policy and the factors that mediated those effects are among the core objectives of the economic science. The aim of this investigation is to present a recent methodological breakthrough ...
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Liu, Guannan (2016-03-09)My dissertation includes two essays studying the forecasting of financial returns. In the first essay, I study the temporal dependence structures of financial returns by using a mixture copula model. A mixture copula is a ...
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Wang, Qi (2012-10-19)In this dissertation, the classical problems of testing goodness-of-fit of uniformity and parametric families are reconsidered. A new omnibus test for these problems is proposed and investigated. The new test statistics ...
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Lee, Hyuneui (2017-05-30)A goodness-of-fit (gof) problem, i.e., testing whether observed data come from a specific distribution is one of the important problems in statistics, and various tests for checking distributional assumptions have been ...
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Malloure, Matthew R (2017-10-03)Statistical methods for selecting between two competing models have a long and storied history from both the frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. That being said, there are known limitations that exist when using frequentist ...
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Bakhtavoryan, Rafael (2012-02-14)Using household level scanner data for 2006, 2007, and 2008, this dissertation consists of four studies, which present household- and market-level analyses of food safety issues concerning the 2007 Peter Pan recall on the ...
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Fan, Xinxin (2018-08-03)This dissertation investigates the match of current Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) price differential policy with current conditions and the effects of shifting diesel prices on price differentials along with climate ...
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Mu, Jianhong (2012-07-16)This dissertation examines issues related to avian influenza (AI) disease. This is done via three essays that individually examine: (1) the impacts of climate change on the probability and expected numbers of AI outbreaks ...
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Zhan, Dongling (2012-07-16)The k-sample problem, i.e., testing whether two or more data sets come from the same population, is a classic one in statistics. Instead of having a small number of k groups of samples, this dissertation works on a large ...
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Sen Gupta, Rajorshi (2012-10-19)Firms outsource productive tasks to different locations in order to exploit factor price differentials and gain efficiencies from specialization. However, the benefits of outsourcing come with two risks. The first problem ...
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Park, Beom Su (2011-10-21)Economic events may cause structural changes in markets. To know the effect of the economic event we should analyze the structural changes in the market demand and supply. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the ...
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Yao, Shuang (2014-07-30)Estimating gradients is of crucial importance across a broad range of applied economic domains. Here we consider data-driven bandwidth selection based on the gradient of an unknown regression function. This is a difficult ...
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Gao, Yichen (2013-05-20)This dissertation contains two essays studying panel data econometric models. First, we consider the problem of estimating a nonparametric panel data models with fixed effects. We propose using the profile least squares ...
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Kuteesa, Annette (2012-02-14)The rates of childhood obesity remain high in spite of the enormous efforts dedicated to tackling the disease. This dissertation investigates the effect of two of its causes, including parental time and children's obesity ...
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Cheng, Guo (2019-06-17)Nuts industry is a critical component of the U.S. agricultural economy. Given the health benefits, peanuts and tree nuts are purchased by consumers on a daily basis in the United States. Our study pertains to eight types ...
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Shen, Ze (2021-07-02)Cryptocurrency and its underlying technology, blockchain, are significantly changing the financial world. One of the critical characteristics of cryptocurrency is its substantial price fluctuations, which means investment ...
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Dorta, Miguel (2012-07-16)This study develops a multi-period log-return quantile forecasting procedure to evaluate the performance of eleven nearby commodity futures contracts (NCFC) using a sample of 897 daily price observations and at-the-money ...
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Bouhlal, Yasser (2012-07-16)The United States cheese consumption has grown considerably over the years. Using Nielsen Homescan panel data for calendar years 2005 and 2006, this dissertation examines the effect of economic and socio-demographic factors ...
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Li, Zheng (2017-04-05)In the first essay, we investigate the nonlinear quantile regression with mixed discrete and continuous regressors. A local linear smoothing technique with the mixed continuous and discrete kernel function is proposed to ...