Browsing by Author "Puller, Steven L"

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    • The Economics of the U.S. Automotive Industry: Studies on Regulation and Competition 
      Karsagi, Ephraim (2018-07-30)
      This dissertation is about the U.S. automobile industry. In the first part, I study an environmental policy that ascribes a fee or a rebate to each new vehicle in the marketplace, depending on the vehicle’s fuel economy ...
    • Efficient Retail Pricing in Electricity and Natural Gas Markets 
      Puller, Steven L; West, Jeremy (American Economic Review, 2013)
    • Essays in Applied Microeconomics 
      Street, Brittany Renae (2019-04-12)
      In an era of increasing data availability, it is possible to better understand the world around us and improve policy with empirical evidence. The difficulty is in distinguishing causal effects from other confounding factors ...
    • Essays in economics of electronic commerce 
      Sengupta, Anirban (2009-06-02)
      The advent of the internet has revolutionized the way people buy and sell. The internet is characterized by increased access to information. This increased information should foster convergence to the “law of one price,” ...
    • Essays on Transportation and Energy Efficiency Policy 
      West, Jeremy (2014-07-16)
      This dissertation examines two questions of consumers' motor vehicle purchase and utilization. Both are related to policy variation induced by the U.S. Car Allowance Rebate System, better known as "Cash for Clunkers." First, ...
    • Essays on U.S. energy markets 
      Brightwell, David Aaron (2009-05-15)
      This dissertation examines three facets of U.S. energy use and policy. First, I examine the Gulf Coast petroleum refining industry to determine the structure of the industry. Using the duality between cost-minimization and ...
    • Mediation and Court Congestion in Texas: 1980-2010 Empirical Data 
      Proctor, Michael (2015-08-03)
      Problems in the U.S. legal system became a significant public issue during the 1970s and 1980s; “court congestion” was one of these. Alternative processes (Alternative Dispute Resolution, or ADR) were proposed as a major ...
    • Risk Aware Robust Decision Making in Power Systems with Renewable Resources 
      Thatte, Anupam Ajit (2014-10-29)
      The increasing penetration of renewable generation poses significant risks to the reliable operation of power systems, mainly due to the variable and uncertain nature of the output of wind and solar resources. This ...
    • Three Essays in Environmental and Resource Economics: Hydraulic Fracturing, Water Use, and Marine Recreational Fishing 
      Backstrom, Jesse Donald (2019-07-03)
      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 ...
    • Two Essays in Labor Economics 
      Zhu, Siyi 1983- (2012-12-10)
      The first essay studies the long term trend of internal migration in the United States. Over the last forty years, there has only been a modest change in the overall interstate migration rate in the United States. However, ...