• Essays on climate econometrics 

    Nam, Kyungsik (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 ...
  • Three essays on monetary and financial economics 

    Cao, Xueli (Ph.D. in Economics) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    [ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This three-chapter dissertation focuses on the research topics in Monetary and Financial Economics. The first paper examines the time-varying impact ...
  • Three essays on retail price competition 

    Kim, Taehwan (Ph.D. in Economics) (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
    This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines price dispersion in retail gasoline and focuses on differentiation along the service dimension: full service versus self service. Consistent with ...