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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)I investigate the effect to which consumer heterogeneity impacts varying markets. I find that it has a substantial effect all the markets that I consider. In the US automobile industry, we model demand for the durable goods ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)In this dissertation I investigate the evolution of the current Russian foreign trade policy from trade liberalization following the accession to the World Trade Organization in 2012 to protectionism in the form of the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This dissertation includes three essays in labor economics. Youth Employment Opportunities and Crime: Criminal involvement has been shown to peak at a young age. While Becker's theory of the rational criminal is often ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)I model a hiring process in which a candidate is evaluated sequentially by two agents of a firm. Each agent observes an independent signal of the candidate's productivity. I show that if the second agent values a non-productive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This dissertation focuses on the valuation of nonmarket goods using travel cost models of recreation demand. An accurate and up-to-date understanding of the value of public lands and nonmarket environmental goods is integral ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation is based on three essays in operations and supply chain management. In essay 1, we study an operations scheduling problem in a complex manufacturing system, most notably, semiconductor manufacturing. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The following essays address the impact of special interest groups on economic decision making processes. The hypothesis of the first essay is that there exists a dynamic relationship between politicians and lobby groups. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation considers three topics in public and labor economics. Chapter I introduces the work. In Chapter II, I consider the gender wage gap in the United States by evaluating the differences in work timing and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This dissertation deals with important issues in the field of public finance, namely, how we raise government revenue via taxation and how we spend it in the form of public goods. The first substantive chapter examines the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This dissertation studies monetary-fiscal policy interactions and adaptive learning applications in regime-switching DSGE models. A common thread through my research is understanding how policymakers may be affected by the ...
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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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