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(University of Oregon, 2010-03)To complement a varied and growing literature in health economics, this dissertation is conducted in three substantive parts. First, I investigate the effect of public policy on health use and health outcomes, exploiting ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This dissertation examines the forecast model selection problem in economics in both theoretical and empirical settings. The forecast model selection problem is that there often exists a menu of different suitable models ...
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(University of Oregon, 1950-06)A History of Federal Reserve Policy, 1914—1946 The purpose of this paper is to review the history of action taken by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System with regard to credit policies, and when there was ...
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(University of Oregon, 1938-06)A History of the Consumer’s Co-Operatives in Oregon Prior to 1900 The pioneer farmer often spent the year "working long hours and enduring many hardships and deprivations, only to find himself just a little farther in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This research examines how air pollution and climate change influence human capital accumulation in a developing-country context and also studies the effects of policies targeted to keep children in school in face of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)In this dissertation I incorporate high dimensional data vectors in estimated Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models, evaluating the labor market dynamics incorporated inside such data vectors, out-of-sample ...
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(1960-06)This paper is essentially a review, in general terms, of some of the problems and formulations of investment criteria in under-developed but developing countries.
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(University of Oregon, 2009-12)In the context of Judeo-Christian theology, I develop what appears to be the first formal economic model to analyze the joint interactions between human actors and a divine actor involved in the production of good works. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This dissertation investigates the implications of frictions in labor and financial markets, with a focus on developing economies. Through theoretical and empirical analyses, I first analyze the effects of a large informal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation explores the modeling and estimation of learning in strategic and individual choice settings. While learning has been extensively used in economics, I introduce the concept into standard models in ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This dissertation examines the macroeconomic effects of poverty and inequality. The second chapter considers the effect of poverty and subsistence consumption constraints on economic growth in a two-sector occupational ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)The U.S. social security system faces funding pressure due to the aging of the population. This dissertation examines the welfare cost of social security reform and social security policy uncertainty under rational ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The behavior of the macroeconomy and monetary policy is heavily influenced by expectations. Recent research has explored how minor changes in expectation formation can change the stability properties of a model. One common ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)This dissertation studies, using the tools of dynamic macroeconomics, marriage markets in developing countries. The goal is to understand how the marriage market affects marital fertility, female labor supply and parents' ...
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(University of Oregon, 1960-06)The attempt of this study is to appraise the importance of some factors which explain the difference in productivity of the Japanese and U.S. economics. The explanation is attempted in fairly narrow economic terms; this ...
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(University of Oregon, 1939-06)Notwithstanding a clear statement to the contrary by the United States Supreme Court in the Nebbia case, production and distribution of fluid milk for human consumption is being considered more generally the subject of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1953-06)Albert Gallatin (1761—1849) believed that a stable and secure money was both an economic necessity and moral obligation of the monetary authority. He would have preferred that the supply of money be limited to that furnished ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)The banking sector has been extensively analyzed in economics. On the microeconomic side, research has advanced our understanding of banks and the inverse relationship between market power and bank production. The macroeconomic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This dissertation investigates whether criticisms of standard economic models can be addressed with only minimal modifications to the assumptions. In the first essay, the Real Business Cycle (RBC) model is studied, though ...
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