Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Theses--Economics"
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Automobile leasing in the United States: why do consumers lease cars?
(1997)This dissertation examines the process by which consumers decide which automobile to purchase and how to finance their decision. Although prior research of automobile leasing assumed a sequential process in which household's ... -
Economics of antibiotic resistance
(1999)In recent years bacteria have become increasingly resistant to antibiotics, leading to a decline in the effectiveness of antibiotics in treating infectious disease. The first chapter uses a framework based on an epidemiological ... -
Economics of the aircraft industry
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Effects of taxation on household portfolio choice and risk taking
(1997)Tax effects on household portfolio behavior have been a controversial issue. The intuition behind this controversy is that taxes reduce not only expected return but also risk. Since expected return and risk have opposite ... -
Essays in economics of the family: incorporating cohabitation
(2005)The first essay of this dissertation provides new evidence on wage premiums for men in relation to marriage and cohabitation. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), we show that even after ... -
Essays in international macrodynamics
(2001)The first essay, entitled "Sectoral Adjustment Costs and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in a Two-Sector Dependent Economy," investigates dynamics of real exchange rates in a two-sector model with both capital accumulation and ... -
Essays on affine term structure models
(2006)Recent studies by Dai and Singleton (2002), Duffee (2002), and Duarte (2004) show that affine term structure models that match the time variability of the expected returns of bond yields do not generate time variation in ... -
Essays on bank networks and the Turkish banking crisis
(2004)This series of essays examines the role of bank networks before, during and after the Turkish banking crisis of 1999--2001. The analysis focuses on different aspects of bank interaction, such as payment and settlement ... -
Essays on exchange rate dynamics and currency crises in Asia
(2000)This dissertation studies theoretical models of causes of and arguments about remedies for currency crises, and empirically examines movements in exchange rates and episodes of crises. In the first chapter, various theoretical ... -
Essays on growth, human capital, and income distribution
(1996)The first two chapters present a pair of endogenous growth models with both physical and human capital and a public education input. These papers contribute to the literature on endogenous growth by analyzing a nonrepresentative ... -
Essays on intrahousehold allocation
(1999)Using a change in the Family Allowance/Child Benefit policy in the UK as a natural experiment, several economic hypotheses of considerable importance are tested. These hypotheses concern the allocation of resources and ... -
Essays on real interest rates, government debt, and monetary policy
(2002)The three dissertation chapters explore various issues regarding interest rate as an instrument for monetary policy in industrial countries.Chapter 1. "Is the quantity of debt a constraint on monetary policy?" Monetary ... -
Essays on the volatility of macroeconomic and financial time series
(2006)The essays are comprised of three chapters to investigate the structural changes and reasons of Japanese postwar macroeconomic dynamic, the structural changes and nature of exchange rate realized volatility, and the ... -
Essays on volatility models using EMM estimation
(2006)Academic researchers and investment institutions have devoted a significant amount of their efforts over the past two decades to developing and testing sophisticated models of the volatility dynamics of different types of ... -
Investigating the effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments on inputs to coal-fired power plants
(2005)This dissertation examines the effects of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) on inputs to coal-fired power plants. The 1990 CAAA established a system of tradable permits for sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions for all ... -
Land-tenure institutions and agricultural productivity in post-reform China
(1999)This dissertation seeks to explain and examine the link between land-tenure institutions and agricultural productivity in China. It offers contributions to two bodies of economic literature. The first is the worldwide ... -
A property rights approach to antitrust analysis
(1998)In this dissertation I analyze a series of historically important antitrust cases, and demonstrate why the prevailing explanations are either incomplete or incorrect. By conducting fact intensive investigations of changes ... -
Quality of care, asymmetric information, and patient outcomes in U.S. for-profit and not-for-profit renal dialysis facilities
(1998)Economic theory suggests that investor-owned firms exhibit superior performance compared to their not-for-profit competitors due to efficiency gains realized from profit maximization incentives. Others argue that ownership ... -
Radical tendencies in the Seattle labor movement as reflected in the proceedings of its central body
(1925)The city of Seattle has long been recognized as a stronghold of organized labor; but since the occurrence of the general strike in February 1919 it has acquired the less savory reputation of being a hot-bed of radicalism, ...