Browsing by Department "Economics"
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(1986)The purpose of this project is to prepare a plan for the comprehensive revitalization of downtown Bryan. The intent of the plan shall be to integrate downtown’s past heritage and present conditions into a formula for ...
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(2016-05-04)In this dissertation, we use student-level high school and college entrance exam data from a city in China to explore the effects of peers, relative ranking and teacher quality on student test outcomes and track choices. ...
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(2017-05-09)This research investigates population-level behavioral dynamics, how they affect the emergence of self-enforcing conventions, and how they can aid in the design of mechanisms to better achieve policy goals. It seeks to ...
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(2014-08-08)This dissertation consists of three essays about adverse selection and advantageous selection in life insurance and health insurance markets. Firstly, I confirm the advantageous selection in voluntary private health ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This dissertation, in its most general context, is an investigation into the modeling of markets with imperfectly informed agents. In such markets, there will invariably be incentives for informed agents to take advantage ...
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The US legal system relies on its ability to categorize cases presented to present verdicts in an orderly and timely manner. However, as individual identities become more multifaceted, our legal system fails to encompass ...
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(2020-11-16)In China, the soaring house prices made households form the anticipation of rising house prices. We analyzed the effect of housing policies when an expectation for the booming house market was formed. In this paper, we ...
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(2011-08-08)This dissertation contains three applications of time series in finance and macroeconomics. The first essay compares the cumulative returns for stocks and bonds at investment horizons from one to ten years by using a test ...
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(2020-04-28)This dissertation contains three essays which examine network effect study in econometrics and its applications. In the first essay, I study two research questions: how underwriter network affects firm network through IPO ...
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(2014-09-05)This paper is a primer on many topics related to the digital cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Bitcoins have been developed and advertised as a private digital money. We analyze this claim, generally to conclude that Bitcoins as ...
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(2011-10-21)In common-value auctions and contests economic agents often have varying levels of information regarding the value of the good to be allocated. Using theoretical and experimental analysis, I examine the effect of ...
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(2009-05-15)In this paper I derive the asymptotics of the exact, Euler, and Milstein ML estimators for diffusion models, including general nonstationary diffusions. Though there have been many estimators for the diffusion model, their ...
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(2015-08-03)This dissertation studies the interrelationship among attractiveness, education and marriage market outcomes. In Section 2, I first examine individuals attractiveness in four dimensions: anthropometric measures (e.g. ...
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(2016-12-07)This dissertation studies three topics on bequests and bequest motives. It firstly documents the patterns and time trends of bequest distributions. Then this dissertation estimates the impacts of bequests and estate taxation ...
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(2010-01-16)My dissertation studies various questions falling into the broad context of macroeconomics and international economics. The questions have macroeconomic components because they are concerned with the behavior of aggregates. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between capital controls and the choice of the maturity structure of external debt in a general equilibrium setup, incorporating explicitly the role of international lenders. ...
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(2009-05-15)The significant restructuring of international capital flows to developing countries – in particular to Latin American countries – observed in the last quarter century has generated significant research in the area to ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This dissertation attempts in three essays to contribute to the growing body of research on the problems associated with sudden stops of capital inflows, known to have been at the heart of many recent emerging market crises. ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation is about an open question of cartel ratifiable conditions. My research goal is to establish a mechanism which is able to detect and explain cartels' activities. My research question in the second chapter ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This study empirically investigates the hypothesis of causality between financial development and economic growth in seven Middle East and North African countries from a time series perspective. I use ordinary least squares ...