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A market study of sealed bid competition for Utah public school lunch milk, 1970-1975
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1981)
This study was designed to determine the influence of various economic factors on sealed bid prices and, accordingly, to serve as a guide for setting these factors to obtain a more competitive price. Traditional concepts on structure, conduct...
Essays on the econometrics of ordinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] In economics, ordinal variables like general health, mental health, and happiness level play a crucial role. Ordinal data is commonly used in surveys and questionnaires due to its ordered structure. However, incorporating...
Three essays on trade gravity model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
and incomes are controlled for. We find that the average language depression ratio is 0.31, which is large and economically significant. In chapter 3, we try to indentify the mechanisms through which ethnic networks facilitate international trade. We create...
Rural southern residents and the incentive to work
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
," is resounding the public value placed on economic independence. The problem of creating a class of people permanently economically dependent on welfare is not localized to the United States. "In Europe...the unsolved problem for public policy has been to make...
An analysis of interregional variation in general hospital expenses
(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 ...
Essays on economics of higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
the years 2001-2017 to study the effect of local-area unemployment on postsecondary enrollment and degree completion. My analysis extends the literature in several ways, most notably by (a) incorporating data well into the recent economic recovery from...
The limitations of the Ricardian theory of rent : a study of static theory in relation to changing business practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
PART I. Adaptation of the theory of rent to the time of its origin. The early dominance of the landlord class -- The rise of a trading class -- The competitive theory in the natural order of Adam Smith -- The historical ...
What's the big deal?: the effect of corporate reforms on manufacturing productivity in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Although Korea has achieved striking economic success during last four decades, following the 1997-98 foreign exchange crisis, Korea's economy was in urgent need of restructuring amid a series of corporate bankruptcies and a paralyzing credit crunch...
Essays in policy evaluation and labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of origin. The third chapter considers an unexplained puzzle in one of the most widely used public datasets in the U.S. The American Community Survey (ACS) replaced the Decennial Census as the primary data source for identifying immigrants' socioeconomic...
Essays on empirical models of retirement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this study, I examine effects of financial incentives and non-financial incentives on public school teachers' retirement in Missouri. For financial incentives, existing...
Selected effects of urban mobility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] This dissertation presents four essays characterizing urban mobility through cellphone location data. Chapter 1 surveys the recent literature using location data to understand urban interactions ...
Essays on labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation consists of two chapters on labor economics. In the first chapter, we study redistributions via the United States Social Security retirement system for cohorts...
The legal phase of monopolies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1898)
. Labor as a commodity was well developed and it was as a protection against the artisan that a consideration of public good led to the laws of Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade. Just so to-day, public welfare demands a powerful instrument to ward off...
Essays on money and credit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
When at least some transactions are anonymous and there is missing a publicly available record keeping device, individuals who sell goods cannot force buyers to payback the debt. Thus, money and collateralized credit are essential. This idea...
Pricing to market when exchange rate changes and output level matters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation clarifies the definition of Pricing to Market (PTM) and formalizes the definition. PTM in this paper focuses on the relative movements of prices in different markets, conditional on exchange rate movements. ...
Three essays on bayesian analysis of nonlinear DSGE models
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
. Fourth, contrary to the linear model with financial frictions, a nonstationary productivity shock in the quadratic model plays an important role in explaining Argentine economic fluctuations....
Empirical analysis of household consumption behavior
(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 ...
Entry biases in Cournot markets with free entry
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Entry biases determine whether free entry is desirable. This study examines entry biases in a Cournot market by comparing the number of free entry equilibrium firms to the number of social optimum firms. First, a homogeneous ...
Fiscal sustainability in the light of aging trend : finding the patterns among aged OECD countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study is an investigation into the fiscal sustainability of countries in the light of the aging trend and finds that it runs downhill in the countries that are classified as high-level age and have experienced the ...
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 ...