Browsing by Author "Zhang, Yu"
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Zhang, Yinjunjie (2018-07-24)This dissertation encompasses three different topics in applied microeconomics with the common thread of understanding the impact of public policy on economic behavior, choice, and welfare. By employing causal inference ...
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Xie, Runshi (2022-08-03)Crapemyrtle Bark Scale (Acanthococcus lagerstroemiae; CMBS) is an invasive pest species that causes aesthetic and economic damage to crapemyrtles and poses potential threats to other horticultural crops in the United States. ...
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Valdez Gonzalez, Natalia Isabel (2023-01-18)“Rational,” individualistic agents populate theories in neoclassical economics, which are intended to represent how humans respond to incentives and stimuli. However, humans do not always behave in the way the agents in ...
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Zhang, Peilu (2021-04-15)From an individual perspective, one important way through which economics affects our daily lives is the framing of choices we make about our jobs, school, and what we have for dinner. People make thousands of decisions ...
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Zhang, Yu (2012-10-19)The objectives of foreign aid are closely associated with the global political and economic issues during the last 60 years. In recent years foreign aid flows have been considerably influenced by international terrorism. ...
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Xu, Zhicheng (2016-07-11)Fairness is a central topic in ethics, political science and economics. A variety of economic questions, such as charitable donation, welfare programs, taxation of income and inheritances, are closely associated with ...
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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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Kassas, Bachir Mohamad (2018-06-11)This dissertation examines some of the social and psychological factors affecting individual cooperative and risk-taking behavior. Specifically, laboratory experiments were conducted in order to shed more light on the ...
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Zhang, Yu (2010-10-12)This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions both theoretically and empirically. The first essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It- Now” (BIN) auctions, in which ...
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Zhang, Yu (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Sharing common goals and acting cooperatively are critical issues in multiagent teamwork. Traditionally, agents cooperate with each other by inferring others' actions implicitly or explicitly, based on established norms ...
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Zhang, Yu (2021-03-17)Probable maximum flood (PMF) has been used in large hydraulic infrastructure design for decades. However, a complete framework for deriving PMF with uncertainty analysis is lacking. This study investigated from probable ...
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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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Wu, Bin (2022-08-09)Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia sp.) is the best-selling flowering tree and provides excellent pollen sources for pollinators in the U.S., especially when other resources are naturally scarce. However, the market’s most ...
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Zhang, Yu (2017-07-26)This dissertation consists of three essays investigating the determinants of civil conflict from the aspects of history, geography, and external assistance, respectively. Each of the essays uses empirical economic techniques ...
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Zhao, Guannan (2019-03-18)Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be reduced in order to avoid dangerous climate change. There are a number of ways of achieving emissions reductions and agriculture can play an important role. Some involve reducing ...
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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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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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Wu, Wenbin (2019-03-06)This dissertation includes three essays. In the first essay I study the problem of density estimation using normal mixture models. Instead of selecting the ‘right’ number of components in a normal mixture model, I propose ...
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Yuan, Xiaotong (2020-04-09)The dissertation applies three different methods to reveal consumers’ attitude toward Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). I incorporate experimental economics methods, surveys and causal inference methods, by using ...