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An Economic Analysis of Secure Messaging between Patients and Providers
(2012-09-13)This dissertation presents an economic analysis of patient-provider communication through secure messaging. Section 1 presents the evolution of secure messaging. Section 2 aims to determine whether secure messages can ... -
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 ... -
Empirical Analysis on U.S. Real Output
(2013-11-14)The relative importance of permanent (trend) versus cyclical shocks to GDP has been a central issue in macroeconomics since the work of Nelson and Plosser (1982). Morley et al. (2003) find large trend shocks. In contrast, ... -
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 Financial Intermediation and Credit Risk
This dissertation focuses on issues in financial intermediation and sovereign credit risk. With the enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) in 1999, the long-standing barriers between commercial and investment banking ... -
Essays in International Finance
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter, "What Makes a Commodity Currency?", looks at real exchange rate behavior of developing countries that depend heavily on commodity exports. A primary purpose ... -
Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics
This dissertation consists of essays in the intersection of international finance, macroeconomics, and monetary economics. The first essay studies the role of the financial sector in affecting domestic resource allocation ... -
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 Applications of the Factor Model
(2014-02-24)Estimating the volatilities and correlations of asset returns plays an important role in portfolio and risk management. As of late, interest in the estimation of the covariance matrix of large dimensional portfolios has ... -
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 Bayesian Econometrics
(2014-04-30)This dissertation explores important macroeconomics issues based on Bayesian Econometrics tools developed. One goal of the first chapter of the dissertation is to develop an efficient Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm ... -
Essays on Contract Theory
This dissertation is primarily on the contractual design to account for various source of information asymmetry in a principal-agent(s) relationship. In the first chapter, I study the optimal provision of team incentives ... -
Essays on Corruption and Enforcement
This dissertation examines the role and limits of enforcement in environments where the enforcing party faces issues related to corruption and misreporting. In the first chapter, we construct a principal – agent – auditor ... -
Essays on Economic Impacts of Coral Bleaching: Evidence from Indonesia
This dissertation explores the economic effects of the 1998 massive coral bleaching on Indonesian households. The first chapter explores the effects on income and labor-related outcomes among fishery households. Results ... -
Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-11-14)The nonlinear time series analysis has been applied widely in many empirical macroeconomic studies and deepened our understanding of the economy. One of the traditional issues of most importance is how to describe the ... -
Essays on Environmental and Health Economics
This dissertation examines the linkages between public policy, environment and human health. The first chapter evaluates the environmental impact of the world’s largest Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in London. The second chapter ... -
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 ...