An approach for three dimensional Therinohydrodyiiamic analysis of multi-lobed journal bearings is presented. The generalized Reynolds equation solution yields the Dressure distribution in the axial and circumferential ...

Analyzing different aspects of the supply chain aids in understanding how firms behave, interact and respond within an industry. Some concepts used to carry out this analysis include asymmetric price transmission, event ...

My dissertation is composed of three sections. The first section examines the effect of monetary incentives on student performance in public education in Texas. I address how to deal with non-random samples caused by ...

This dissertation includes three essays in environmental and resource economics. The first two pertain to important topics in relation to the upstream oil and gas industry in the U.S. The third pertains to marine recreational ...

In this dissertation, I examine individual decisions in occupational choice, labor supply, and health care utilization. Occupational choice decisions of female college graduates on whether to teach or not are analyzed to ...

We measure macroeconomic uncertainty and study its link to asset returns via a consumption-based model employing recursive preferences. We introduce a stochastic volatility model with two asymptotic regimes and smooth ...

This dissertation introduces three essays on the short and long run consequences of educational choices. In the first essay “Conscription and the Returns to Education: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity” we use a ...

In this thesis, I study microeconometrics and its applications in empirical questions. There are three studies, which investigate the housing vacancy rate, sticky demand, and the quantile forecasting methods for time series ...

This dissertation presents three essays on the effects of different institutions, technologies, and shocks on health, education, labor and information outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs. ...