Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes 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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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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(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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(1991)The current commitment versus discretion debate in economic game theory describes the government's credibility problem quite well. The commitment versus discretion argument focuses on types of institutional arrangements ...
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(2013-09-30)While China has traditionally had exceedingly high saving rates over generations, there has been a current trend towards a remarkable decrease in this tendency. The theory behind life cycle savings models suggests that ...
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(2014-10-01)This paper examines the link between information and communications technology and microfinance performance. Information and communications technology, or ICT, could potentially provide a breakthrough for microfinance in ...
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(1989)A universal problem that exists in society is finding an optimal punishment that will deter individuals from a certain unwanted behavior. Sociologists, psychologists, economists and even businessmen have grappled with the ...
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(2019-04-19)We perform a randomized control trial in which we provide students with a tool that visualizes empirical grade information of classes at a large public university. Visualization viewership is monitored and demand is linked ...
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(2012-04-20)This paper studies the effect of changes in accident pattern due to Daylight Savings Time (DST). The extension of the DST in 2007 provides a natural experiment to determine whether the number of traffic accidents is affected ...
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Mobility literature in economics examines the distribution of earnings in a workforce. That research is motivated to better understand how workers can rise or fall in the distribution of earnings. However, with new and ...
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(1987)Many businesses are not persuaded that advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) will bring large gains in manufacturing efficiency. The businesses, however, which rely upon traditional financial decision tools may be in ...
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(2012-04-12)I conducted experiments to determine whether anonymity affects the gap between the willingness to accept (WTA) and willingness to pay (WTP) in endowment effect games. Plott and Zeiler (2005) theorize complete anonymity is ...
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(2013-12-16)Plea bargaining is a defining characteristic of the United States criminal justice system; according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 95% of the 1,079,000 felons convicted in state courts during 2004 pleaded guilty ...
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(2014-09-19)Drunk driving is a significant problem in today’s society, and the recent development of ridesharing services, like Uber, offer a new way to avoid driving under the influence. In this paper, I examine whether the presence ...
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(2014-09-22)In this paper, I use data from the American Time Use Survey to determine whether there is a causal relationship between the minimum wage and hours of work. As hiring and firing decisions are costly, it may be the case that ...
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(1991)After months of focusing attention on the troubles of the Middle East, the U.S. has turned its eyes back home to domestic policy. President Bush's newly proposed domestic policy, not surprisingly, includes proposals dealing ...
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(2011-08-08)When prices are set properly, they serve as important signals to guide customers to consume the efficient quantity of a good. However, in electricity markets many consumers do not pay prices that reflect the scarcity of ...
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(2013-10-04)This research aims to investigate the rate of return of education at different educational levels in order to prove that obtaining a basic education is beneficial for employment in the formal and informal sector. The ...
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In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into effect by former President Barack Obama. The act had the intention of expanding Medicaid and making healthcare more affordable and accessible for Americans by drastically ...
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(2012-04-18)This paper examines the profitability of several simple technical trading rules by using the S&P 500 index. The purpose of this research is to test the assumption that markets are efficient and therefore do not allow for ...