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  • American socialism and syndicalism 

    Swift, Charles Henry (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
    Another word with which we have to deal when studying the problems of industrial reform is "Syndicalism." As yet the word is but vaguely known and its connotation is still somewhat of a mystery to the general public. This ...
  • An analysis of income distribution effects of a gasoline tax : evidence from the U.S. micro-level data 

    Kim, Hyung-Gun, 1975- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    This is a study of an income distributional effect of a gasoline tax, taking account of behavioral responses of households depending on income levels. We examine the price elasticities of gasoline demand and the tax burdens ...
  • An analysis of interregional variation in general hospital expenses 

    Hinchey, Samuel Brackston (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)
    The dynamics of the medical care industry cannot escape the interest of the economist. Within the past one hundred years, the primary production unit in the industry, the hospital, has advanced from a practitioner’s workshop ...
  • An analysis of production costs and applications high cost of living and panics and depressions 

    Comer, George P. (George Paul) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1913)
    This discussion of Cost of Production, or as we choose to name it, Production Costs, will be made from the standpoint of the competitive or price economy. Other views of costs, such as labor costs, pain costs, and collectivists ...
  • Analysis of residential housing markets in large U.S. metropolitan areas 

    Lu, Yu, 1979- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
    The This paper consists of three essays focusing on the geography of U.S. residential housing markets, the role of housing attributes in the residential housing markets, as well as the housing tenure choices in large ...
  • Capital requirement and financial stability 

    Wei, Xingpeng (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the tradeoff between bank competition and financial stability resulting ...
  • Comparisons and extensions of reduced form and structural approaches to retirement decision of Missouri public school teachers 

    Wu, Chao (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    There have been growing calls to reform teachers' pension systems. Designing of pension reforms requires modeling retirement decisions first. My thesis compares different models of teachers' retirement decisions. To further ...
  • Contributions to the theory and methodology of quantile models with endogeneity 

    Liu, Xin (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
    In the first chapter, I develop smoothed GMM estimation and inference for overidentified instrumental variables quantile regression (IVQR) and related quantile models. Previous approaches have been limited to exact ...
  • Cyclical behavior of prices and inflation 

    Li, Xue (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    One of the most important theme of macroeconomics is to describe and explain the behavior of key macroeconomic series, such as output, the price level, and inflation. This paper describes the way in which the price level ...
  • The determinants and impacts of foreign direct investment in the Thai manufacturing sector : a three-way fixed effects approach 

    Laoswatchaikul, Pongsak (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
    This study investigates the determinants of inward FDI in the Thai manufacturing sector. The data of industrial FDI are obtained from 14 source countries and 9 manufacturing industries during 1990 - 2008. The panel data ...
  • Distribution of the tax burden 

    Carmack, James Abner (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1909)
    Accepting income as a basis for taxation, we will examine the various methods of raising revenue for Federal, State, and local purposes and see how near, according to our standard of measure, they come to realize in practice ...
  • Dynamic models of credit ratings and default probabilities 

    Hirani, Pranav (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The upheaval in the capital markets since 1997 has highlighted the need for orderly stress testing of banks' portfolios, including both their trading ...
  • Early financial history of Missouri 

    Nardin, William Thompson (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
    The financial history of Missouri properly begins with the history of the territory of which Missouri was, in the earliest time, a part. That territory, however, the field of attempted French colonization and of Spanish ...
  • Econometric methods for improved measures of financial risk 

    Kim, Moohwan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
    Faced with the current financial crisis, several US and foreign banks and investment firms have failed due to excessive losses. The Value-at-Risk (VaR) was a widely-used risk model that was problematic. We evaluate competing ...
  • Effects of exchange rate changes on investment : a study with U.S. firm level panel data 

    Lee, Seung Won, 1968- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    In this paper I investigate the effects of exchange rate changes on firm investment through the export channel and imported input channel using U.S. manufacturing firm level data for 1998-2007. For this study, I create a ...
  • Effects of the fiscal policy on macroeconomic outcomes 

    Davila Fadul, Ivan Enrique (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
    The dissertation consists in three chapters addressing the effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic outcomes. In the first chapter, I take advantage of the scarcity of evidence on the effects of public spending on GDP ...
  • Empirical analyses of dynamic categorical data 

    Hu, Cai (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Essay 1 analyzes the married couples' retirement decision using the PSID data. I employ the proportional hazard model to examine the factors that ...
  • Empirical analyses on the effects of economic incentives on teacher retention and teacher quality 

    Wang, Xiqian (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
    This study conducts empirical analysis on the effects of economic incentives on retaining teachers, both in the late-career and early-career, and improving teacher quality in public schools. The first chapter analyzes ...
  • Empirical analysis of household consumption behavior 

    Seol, Youn, 1973- (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The dissertation is an empirical analysis of consumer behavior using household-level data. The dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay ...
  • Empirical inference for online auctions 

    Wang, Guojie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay adopts the survival analysis to empirically analyze a new auction format, pay-per-bid ...