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Essays in health economics and health policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
. Noting that the growing arguments for socioeconomic gradient in health are based mostly on cross-sectional studies, panel analyses of five different public health outcomes are conducted. Results demonstrate that economic development remains critical...
Forecasting county-level unemployment accounting for spatial correlation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This paper analyzes the effect of including a spatial component in models that predict monthly county-level unemployment in Missouri. The initial analysis seeks to explore the general spatial structure of unemployment using ...
The determinants and impacts of foreign direct investment in the Thai manufacturing sector : a three-way fixed effects approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
-way fixed effects approach is employed to obtain consistent estimation. The results of an analysis of the aggregate manufacturing level suggest that source country GDP, industrial production, FTA, infrastructure, economic stability, and government policies...
Econometric methods for improved measures of financial risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
the financial economics literature about the relative importance of the VaR flaws (e.g., subadditivity) and probability model specification errors in risk measurement under Extreme Value Theory. In particular, we use the peaks-over-threshold method based...
How monetary policy influences the lending to small business : an empirical study on relationship banking using a Korean bank data set
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study examines the influence of the monetary policy on bank lending to small business in Korea using a unique loan panel data set of firms. We analyze the dynamics of monetary policy transmission in an environment of ...
Empirical inference for online auctions
(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 ...