Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Department "Economics (MU)"
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Energy price uncertainty, energy intensity and firm-level investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this dissertation I estimate the effect of oil price and energy price uncertainty and energy price shocks on firm-level investment. An error ... -
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 ... -
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 in applied microeconomics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)The following three essays demonstrate the toolkit necessary for conducting applied microeconomic research. In Chapter 1, I analyze the socioeconomic and agency-specific determinants that may lead to disparities in traffic ... -
Essays in financial macroeconomics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)This dissertation delves into critical aspects of financial markets and intermediaries, shedding light on optimal portfolio rebalancing strategies in the presence of cash distributions and transaction costs, as well as the ... -
Essays in health economics and health policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation is a compilation of three essays. The first essay critiques a recent paper by Wilper et al. (2009) for its inappropriate model ... -
Essays in policy evaluation and labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation contains three chapters. The first chapter evaluates the effect of a gun control act in California. State legislators in the U.S. are striving to curb gun violence. A common approach is to extend the ... -
Essays on advance selling of new to-be-released products
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation comprises three essays on the same topic: advance selling of new to-be-released products. The first essay studies the retailer's optimal strategy in a model where the demand uncertainty comes from both ... -
Essays on applied macroeconomics and monetary policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)The dissertation presents three essays in applied macroeconomics and monetary theory. First essay explores the existence of global financial cycles and examines the relationship between financial and macroeconomic sectors ... -
Essays on climate econometrics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This paper proposes a nonlinear cointegrating regression model based on the well-known energy balance climate model. Specifcally, I investigate the nonlinear cointegrating regression of mean of temperature anomaly distributions ... -
Essays on decision making under uncertainty : Stochastic dominance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Decision making under uncertainty is certainly the most important task of an economics agent and it is often a very difficult one. In most cases, the goal of further analysis of uncertainty is not necessarily to reduce it, ... -
Essays on early childhood education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Early childhood educations plays a fundamental role in human capital development. This dissertation studies skills development during early childhood. Chapter 1 focuses on early childhood intervention from birth to age 3. ... -
Essays on economics of higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, We use rich administrative microdata from Missouri to examine the potential to expand and diversify the production of STEM degrees at universities by tapping into ... -
Essays on economics of microcredit and economics of fertility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is a combination of three essays on development economics. In essay 1, I examine the impact of microcredit use on several aspects of ... -
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 ... -
Essays on estimating dynamic discrete choice models: methods and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Estimating dynamic discrete choice models (DDCM) is a common task in many disciplines, including various fields of economics. In a typical DDCM a forwardlooking decision-maker chooses from a finite set of actions in each ... -
Essays on financial sector and optimal monetary policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The 2007-2009 economic events have renewed interests in the relationship between the financial sector and the macroeconomy and suggested that shocks ... -
Essays on fluctuations of the crude oil price and the economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This dissertation studies two major topics related to the crude oil price and the economy. The first topic studied is about the relationship between speculation and the crude oil price and the related implications on the ... -
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 inflation dynamics, economic fluctuations and fiscal policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Understand the short-run inflation dynamics is essential for conducting the fiscal or monetary policies, and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (hereafter, ...