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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)In this dissertation, I examine changes in risk-taking behavior, beliefs, and self-deception induced by changes in policy and behavior. Specifically, Chapter II examines player performance and risk-taking behavior in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Transportation plays an important role in economic growth and development, as it interacts with almost all other industries. Whether it be through barge, rail, road, or air, shippers are charged a price to have a commodity ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Agent heterogeneity has been a widely discussed topic in the recent decade. However, most of the models that emerged from the literature draw their conclusions from a rational expectations equilibrium. These models impose ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)Consumers make choices based on an array of product attributes or consumer-specific characteristics. This dissertation includes three separate essays that examine consumer choice as a function of different consumer-specific ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Foreign direct investment (FDI) has played a major role in the increasing economic globalization of the past couple decades. Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M & A) is the major source of FDI, particularly for ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This research examines the role of culture in two specific contexts--World Bank project management and preferences for pandemic mitigation strategies--and contributes a novel econometric method for sample selection correction ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)In chapter II and III of my dissertation I strive to understand the potential that family policies have to enhance gender equality in paid and un-paid work in low- and middle-income countries, by analyzing two distinct ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The first essay considers the relative effectiveness of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as channels to allocate resources. I use a catastrophic climate-related shock--Hurricane Mitch--to examine the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation explores the impact of policy and economic conditions on the current economic crises of crime, substance abuse, and financial exclusion faced domestically and abroad. Although these issues span the income ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)Real-time tracking of the present state of macroeconomic activity is of great interest to firms, workers, financial market participants, and policymakers. This is particularly true for tracking recessions in real time, as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This dissertation considers two of the most pressing concerns of the current time, income inequality and exposure to pollution, and provides evidence that these two concerns may in fact be causally linked. In order to do ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation is on the economic development of India during the past three decades with a focus on its changing industrial and household structure. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction of the Indian economy and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-05-10)This thesis is composed of three essays and provides empirical contributions to the Industrial Organization literature, especially in the field of transportation and health economics. It aims to understand different issues ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Through trade policy actions, decades of global trade liberalization have resulted in lower formal trade barriers. However, there remain significant barriers to trade that fall outside the realm of traditional policy tools. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)My dissertation consists of two essays on mutual funds. The first essay examines the role of extreme positive returns on future fund flows using maximum style-adjusted daily returns (hereafter MAX) over the previous month. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)The subject of this dissertation is nominal GDP (NGDP) targeting. In the wake of the Great Recession, some economists have proposed using some form of NGDP target to replace current monetary policy. We evaluate the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Thanks to technological advances in the past few decades, firms find product variety a more viable and hopefully a more profitable strategy than before. In this two-essay dissertation, I employ analytical models to investigate ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)It is evident based on recent news articles and social media discussions that racial bias in police action is currently at the forefront of public interest in the U.S. Whether police operate outside of what is considered ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The second chapter examines the impact of information about school quality on student enrollment. I use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effects of a school choice program in California that provides ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)My dissertation consists of an essay in sustainable supply chain management, an essay in group decision making, and an essay in expert-augmented feature selection. My first essay is an unpublished work co-authored with ...
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