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Economics Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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THE NUMERICAL APPROXIMATION FOR THE INTEGRABILITY PROBLEM AND THE MEASURE OF WELFARE CHANGES, AND ITS APPLICATIONS
(University of Kansas, 2012-01-01)This dissertation mainly studied on numerical approximation methods as a solution of the integrability problem and the measure of welfare changes, and demonstrated how numerical algorithms can be applied in empirical studies ... -
The Causes, Sources, and General Characteristics of the Immigration to Kansas Prior to 1890
(The University of Kansas, 1911) -
The Development of Agriculture In The Great Plains, As Typified By Its Growth in Kansas
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The Efficiency of Some Industrial Combinations in the United States
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The Guaranty of Bank Deposits
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Transcontinental Rates
(University of Kansas, 1913) -
The Sherman Anti-Trust Law: in its Relation to the Economic Welfare of The United Stats
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Freer Trade Relations Between the United States and Canada
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The Final Utility of Speculation on the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade
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The CAPM and the High Frequency Trading: Will the CAPM hold good under the impact of high-frequency trading?
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship between the Capital Asset Pricing Model - CAPM and the prevailing High Frequency Trading (HFT) method of stocks trading and to explain the relationship ... -
Some Proposed Experiments Relating to Taxation
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An Evaluation of Skilled Immigration in the United States
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-22)This dissertation examines skilled immigration in the context of labor and health economics. The research focuses on the high-skilled labor market, whereas previous studies either treat all immigrants as a homogeneous group ... -
Bifurcation Analysis of Open Economy New Keynesian Models
(University of Kansas, 2011-03-09)In this study, we first review the bifurcation phenomena in dynamic economic systems and point out the importance of bifurcations together with a summary of the common types of bifurcations which have been encountered in ... -
Bifurcation Analysis of Zellner's Marshallian Macroeconomic Model
(University of Kansas, 2011-02-03)The Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM) developed by Veloce and Zellner (1985} provides a novel way to study sectoral dynamics of an economy in the presence of a dynamic entry/exit equation. Later extended by Zellner and ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON CHILD HEALTH AND SKILL FORMATION
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-27)This dissertation attempts to add to the scholarly literature on parental investments in children. In particular, these essays study a number of ways in which children use their time, and the potential influence of such ... -
Pricing Kernel Specification for User Cost of Monetary Assets
(University of Kansas, 2007-04-27)This paper studies the nonlinear asset pricing kernel approximation by using orthonormal polynomials of state variables in which the pricing kernel specification is restricted by preference theory. We approximate the true ... -
The Theory of Functional Forms of the Consumer Demand System and its Application
(University of Kansas, 2010-01-25)This dissertation studies the consumer demand system focusing on its functional forms in the theoretical aspect and the empirical aspect. The theoretical part investigates the regularity property of the consumer demand ... -
Financial Economies With Restricted Participation
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-18)An abundant literature is concerned with the existence of equilibrium in incomplete markets where participation to financial markets is not restricted. To mention a few, Cass (1984), Werner (1985), Geanakoplos and Polemarchakis ... -
NONLINEARITY AND MARKET EFFICIENCY IN GCC STOCK MARKETS
(University of Kansas, 2009-07-31)Significant prediction of asset prices is of a great importance in financial economics. When studying economic and financial phenomena, it is essential to correctly specify the model. If the true dynamics are nonlinear, ... -
LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR TECHNIQUES FOR ESTIMATING THE MONEY DEMAND FUNCTION: THE CASE OF SAUDI ARABIA
(University of Kansas, 2009-07-31)This research is intended to apply linear and non-linear techniques to estimate the money demand function of Saudi Arabia under two alternative approaches using two different measures of monetary aggregates (Divisia and ...