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Three essays on bayesian analysis of nonlinear DSGE models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
The 2008 financial crisis has highlighted the importance of nonlinear features of our economy including risks, uncertainty shocks, rare disasters, structural changes, zero-lower bound, and occasionally binding constraints. ...
Essays on money and banking: a search-theoretic approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
My dissertation studies the role of banking in the monetary transmission. In the first chapter, I develop a monetary-search model where the money multiplier is endogenously determined. I show that when the central bank ...
Comparisons and extensions of reduced form and structural approaches to retirement decision of Missouri public school teachers
(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 ...
Essays on inequality and mobility of Korean households' income and consumption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes income and consumption inequality empirically and theoretically using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). This dissertation consists of three chapters. First two chapters are about ...
Essays on the econometrics of ordinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
and offers different interpretations, allowing researchers to extract meaningful information from ordinal data. To better understand and distinguish these approaches, I conduct simulation studies that provide valuable insights into their practical...
Essays in applied economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation examines several themes in applied economics. Specifically, Essay 1 examines the dynamics in an overlapping generations model with three-period lived agents, fiat money, and credit, Essay 2 reviews ...
Essays on machine learning applications in economics : causal inference and prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
by Chernozhukov, Chetverikov, Demirer, Duo, Hansen, Newey, and Robins (2018) and apply it to an education empirical analysis. I explain why DML is practically useful and what it does; I also take a bootstrap procedure to improve the built-in DML standard errors...
Contributions to the theory and methodology of quantile models with endogeneity
(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 ...
Toward a common market in residency: international migration and regional integration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This paper further develops models of regional migration, particularly in continents integrating regionally as it magnifies the importance of immigrant behavior for economists and policy-makers. I outline the history of ...