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Investigating a countercyclical price level with procyclical inflation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Recent work of the last 15 years has sought to revaluate what are often thought of as consistent business cycle facts, and one of these in particular ...
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 ...
Marital-property scheme, marriage promotion and matching market equilibrium
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper studies how liberalization in choosing marital-property schemes may impact the aggregate marriage rates. We use a Two-Sided Matching model ...
A study on the trade-off between supervision and wages: an empirical test of efficiency wage theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation investigates the applicability of the shirking version of efficiency wage models in Korea. Analyses is based on the Survey on Wage Structure in the 1980's and 1990's - using data collected in 1983, 1989, ...
Firm access to capital markets in Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation estimates and compares bank concentration and integration effects on real activities with firm level data under different stances of the capital market structure and different consequences from the creation ...
Family structure, residential area and housing demand : evidence from micro-data for the U.S.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Existing literatures emphasize the estimates of price and income elasticities for housing demand over the whole population. This dissertation analyzes and quantifies different responses of whole population and subgroups ...
Motives for savings and portfolio choice : evidence from micro-data for Japan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates the effects of income risk and liquidity constraints on household portfolio choice and saving behavior using Japanese household-level data (POSFAL) from 1989 to 2003. An integrated analysis for three ...
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 ...
A further analysis of the causal link between abortion and crime
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Following Donohue and Levitt (2001), this paper looks at abortion and crime data from 1985-2005 to further investigate the link between legalized abortion in the 1970s and its effect on the crime rate starting in the 1990s. ...
Oil price shocks and stock market behavior : empirical evidence for the U.S. and European Countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation analyze the relationship between oil price shocks and stock market for the US and 13 European countries with monthly data from 1986.1-2005.12. Three countries (Denmark, Norway and the UK) among 13 European ...
An experimental study of the game of Nim
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study is an analysis of the game of Nim. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part is a theoretical examination of the game in which ...
The association between raising grandchildren and grandparent caregiver marital relationships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Few studies have examined how raising grandchildren influences the marital relationship of grandparent caregivers even though raising grandchildren may strain marital relationships. This study used nationally representative ...
Inflation and seigniorage studies in Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This paper explores the link between inflation and seigniorage, which is the revenue governments get from printing money. My research uses data from twenty-nine African countries in the time period 1981 to 2005 to find the ...
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 ...
Forecasting unemployment with spatial correlation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Using regional data from Missouri, I compare the forecasting performance of a univariate autoregressive model to another which considers spatial correlation. I build each type of model for each designated area and evaluate ...
Re-examining the effects of contribution limits on campaign expenditures in gubernatorial elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
While much time has been spent delving into relationship between campaign spending and election outcomes, little has been spent on the question of campaign finance laws on elections. Until Eom and Gross addressed the issue ...
Estimates of school productivity and implications for policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
School productivity was not perfectly estimated because of the sampling error and the measurement error. The traditional Ordinary Least Square (OLS) leaves the estimation of school productivity questionable. Moreover, ...
An analysis of income distribution effects of a gasoline tax : evidence from the U.S. micro-level data
(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 ...
Uncertainty and tangible assets in firm investment : inter-industry evidence from APEC countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation investigates how the role of cash flow changes with the uncertainty coming from oil price fluctuations, using the annual data obtained from COMPUSTAT global during the period of 1991 to 2004. I construct ...
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. ...