Browsing by Author "Wu, Ximing"
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Thomas-Winston, Chrystol Arlene Janelle (2022-03-17)A basic element of consumer behavior can be observed through shopping trips. Today’s consumers have access to different monetary instruments to pay for goods and services. In the U.S., debit cards and credit cards are the ...
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Lee, Hyoung Il (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)We consider the stochastic volatility model with smooth transition and persistent la- tent factors. We argue that this model has advantages over the conventional stochastic model for the persistent volatility factor. ...
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Zhu, Dongni (2016-07-11)Governments and researchers are frequently forced to predict the impact of perspective mergers on markets. This dissertation provides structural methods to empirically evaluate mergers. We first build a static model in ...
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Lee, Yuan-Yao (2019-03-06)This study addresses optimal design and configuration of a supply chain for a lignocellulosic biorefinery. To do this, a comprehensive two-stage stochastic Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model was developed and implemented ...
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Zhu, Ying (2012-10-19)Consumers’ purchase decisions typically involve two brands: the manufacturer brand (the “what brand to buy” decision) and the retailer brand (the “where to buy” decision). While extant research suggests that consumers’ ...
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Park, Hyung Ho (2023-08-09)This dissertation examines the economic and environmental agricultural sector implications of requiring renewable fuels and pricing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. The Forest and Agricultural Sector Optimization Model ...
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Deng, Xiaoyang (2022-04-22)The Gulf Coast is the most important U.S. oil and gas region and contains substantial industry infrastructure and assets. The coastal location makes that energy infrastructure vulnerable to extreme weather like hurricanes, ...
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Cao, Xiaoyong (2010-01-14)In this dissertation I study theories on auctions with participation costs with various information structure. Chapter II studies equilibria of second price auctions with differentiated participation costs. We consider ...
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Gao, Qi (2010-07-14)In this dissertation, several essays in the field of bio-security are presented. The estimation of the probability of an FMD outbreak by type and location of premises is important for decision making. In Essay I, we estimate ...
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Wlodarz, Marta (2013-12-02)This dissertation examines future prospects of bioenergy production in the United States. The analysis examines three issues on liquid fuel and cellulosic ethanol. First, the amount that costs need to decrease in order to ...
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Zhang, Jin (2009-05-15)This dissertation investigates three issues on business failure causality and prediction. First, a nonlinear model for mathematical programming based discriminant analysis is studied. This study proposes a nonlinear model ...
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Lu, Ruoxi (2017-05-25)This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on China’s interbank money market. The first essay is an empirical examination of the responses of China’s short-term interbank interest rates to the People’s Bank of ...
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Cho, Sung Ju (2015-10-27)Climate change, biofuels, agricultural policies and other factors may well be changing farmer decisions and extreme events like wildfires. We use discrete choice models to examine how climate is influencing decisions on ...
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Wang, Zidong (2018-05-07)This dissertation contains three essays. The first essay addresses climate impacts on agricultural yields. One practical difficulty in estimating climate impacts is the presence of regionally correlated but omitted factors ...
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Ding, Jinxiu (2014-07-23)Agricultural production and water resources are sensitive to climate variability and change. Decadal climate variability (DCV) is another force that has been found to influence crop yields and water supplies. DCV phenomena ...
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Chen, Sihong (2017-03-29)This dissertation includes three essays. The first essay examines time-varying nonlinear dependence and asymmetries of commodity futures from 1999 to 2015. We consider several elliptical copulas with dynamic conditional ...
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Zhou, Song (2018-07-19)The first essay estimates the effect of the "Program of College Admission for Poor Counties" on high school education using data of 86 counties of Gansu province in northwestern China. Applying a difference-in-differences ...
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Wang, Minglu (2020-03-23)This dissertation contains three essays. This first essay reports on an econometric analysis on how climate change affects livestock reproductive efficiency and livestock location. Reproductive activity is measured through ...
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Musumba, Mark (2012-10-19)To achieve economic development, regional authorities have to address issues that relate to climate change, efficient information flow in the market place, and health care. This dissertation presents three essays on current ...
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Li, Yajuan (2016-07-26)This dissertation is mainly focusing on an economic evaluation of a childhood obesity intervention program, after school physical activities and a nationwide social health care program. The analysis is conducted within ...