Browsing by Subject "Economics"
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A Study of How Economic Attitudes Are Shaped by Environmental Shocks and Life Experiences
(2016)Social attitudes, attitudes toward financial risk and attitudes toward deferred gratification are thought to influence many important economic decisions over the life-course. In economic theory, these attitudes are key components ... -
A Study of the Impact of a Natural Disaster on Economic Behavior and Human Capital Across the Life Course
(2015)How households and individuals respond to adverse and unanticipated shocks is an important concern for both economists and policy makers. This is especially true in developing countries where poverty, weak infrastructure, ... -
A Theory of Urban-Rural Bias: A Dual Dilemma of Political Survival
(2011)Pro-urban bias in policy is a common phenomenon in many developing countries. Bates (1981) has famously argued the wish to industrialize paired with the political clout of urban residents results in distinctly anti-rural ... -
An Evaluation of the Shrimp Industry in North Carolina: Could policy changes such as an altered harvest schedule increase the profitability of the shrimp fishery?
(2007-08-31)This study seeks to evaluate the ability of the North Carolina (NC) shrimp industry to cope with the impacts of imported shrimp on prices. First, this study provides a review of the literature and relevant background ... -
Applications of Statistical and Economic Analysis in Finance and Health Industry
(2015)This paper intends to present my summary of internship and some academic individual and team projects, including a quantitative and statistical analysis of some important Macro factors and financial models, and a data analysis ... -
Asymmetric Correlations in Financial Markets
(2013)This dissertation consists of three essays on asymmetric correlations in financial markets. In the first essay, I have two main contributions. First, I show that dividend growth rates have symmetric correlations. Second, ... -
Auctions, Equilibria, and Budgets
(2012)We design algorithms for markets consisting of multiple items, and agents with budget constraints on the maximum amount of money they can afford to spend. This problem can be considered under two broad frameworks. (a) From ... -
Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Address Problems in Neuroscience and Economics
(2017)In the first chapter, motivated by a model used to analyze spike train data, we present a method for learning multiple probability vectors by using information from large samples to improve estimates for smaller samples. ... -
Bayesian Models for Causal Analysis with Many Potentially Weak Instruments
(2015)This paper investigates Bayesian instrumental variable models with many instruments. The number of instrumental variables grows with the sample size and is allowed to be much larger than the sample size. With some sparsity ... -
Beyond the Convent Walls: The Local and Japan-wide Activities of Daihongan’s Nuns in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550–1868)
(2016)This dissertation examines the social and financial activities of Buddhist nuns to demonstrate how and why they deployed Buddhist doctrines, rituals, legends, and material culture to interact with society outside the convent. ... -
Bungoma County Woman’s Study: A Pilot Randomized Evaluation To Estimate The Impact Of A Screening and Referral Service On Contraceptive Use
(2018)Background: An estimated 225 million women globally have an unmet family planning need, three-quarters of whom live in low and middle-income countries. Addressing this need requires new and innovative approaches, such as ... -
Can a Broader Education Narrow the Gap? Evidence on Non-Academic Features of Schooling
(2016)Empirical studies of education programs and systems, by nature, rely upon use of student outcomes that are measurable. Often, these come in the form of test scores. However, in light of growing evidence about the long-run ... -
Childcare Choices and Early Cognitive Development
(2013)This study uses the data from the National Institute for Children Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to evaluate features of wage and childcare price changes that are associated with positive ... -
Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
(2012)People live and work in local markets spatially distinct from one another, yet space is absent from most economic models of the national labor market. Workers choose the markets in which they will participate, but there ... -
Claims Severity Modeling
(2015)This study is presented as a portfolio of three projects, two of which were a part of my summer internship at CNA Insurance, Chicago and one was a part of the course STA 663: Statistical Computation.Project 1, Text Mining ... -
Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
(Public Choice, 2015-09)© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The competition for global capital has led to interjurisdictional competition between countries, states and cities as to who can offer the most attractive incentives to firms. ... -
Computation in Macroeconomic Asset Pricing
(2011)This dissertation investigates computational methods for macroeconomic asset pricing models. It demonstrates that advances in economic modeling often require advances in computation and highlights a particular case where ... -
Copulas for High Dimensions: Models, Estimation, Inference, and Applications
(2014)The dissertation consists of four chapters that concern topics on copulas for high dimensions. Chapter 1 proposes a new general model for high dimension joint distributions of asset returns that utilizes high frequency data ... -
Cost of capital to the hospital sector.
(J Health Econ, 1988-03)This paper provides estimates of the cost of equity and debt capital to for-profit and non-profit hospitals in the U.S. for the years 1972-83. The cost of equity is estimated using, alternatively, the Capital Asset Pricing ... -
Daily House Price Indexes: Volatility Dynamics and Longer-Run Predictions
(2014)This dissertation presents the construction procedure of “high-frequency” daily measure of changes in housing valuations, and analyzes its return dynamics, as well as investigates its relationship to capital ...
