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Economics: Recent submissions
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UNCOVERING BASIC WANTS USING THE ROTTERDAM AND AIDS MODELS: THE US HOUSEHOLD ENERGY CONSUMPTION CASE
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Economists inflate the explanatory power of measurable variables such as price and income to explain demand. Using only quantifiable variables is very attractive since it makes it easy to construct mathematically consistent ... -
Three Essays on Stock Market Dynamics
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This dissertation aims to understand the comovements of international stock markets, financial contagion, and the relationship between international stock market comovements and macroeconomic factors. It contains three ... -
Essays on Broad Divisia Monetary Aggregates: Admissibility and Practice
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)The assumption of weak separability of goods and services in the utility function is ubiquitous in macroeconomic modeling. If the goods and services are weakly separable, they can be combined into an "admissible" aggregate. ... -
Essays on Return and Volatility on World Stock Markets
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)This research is mainly focused on investigating volatility dynamics of world stock returns. More specifically, the main goal is to capture co-movements and analyze dynamic transmission mechanisms of volatility of stock ... -
A Study of the Effect of Warm-Up on Certain Physiological Parameters During Exercise and Recovery
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A Description and Analysis of a Reflective Study of Three Science Units
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A Study of the Writing Interests of a Group of Fourth Grade Children
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Nonlinear Analysis and Dynamic Structure in the Energy Market
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This research assesses the dynamic structure of the energy sector of the aggregate economy in the context of nonlinear mechanisms. Earlier studies have focused mainly on the price of the energy products when detecting ... -
Essays on Asset Pricing and Political Risk
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)Some financial assets experience higher average returns than others. Asset-pricing theory suggests that this is due to the amount of systematic risk of that particular asset: the riskier the asset, the higher the average ... -
Returns on Real Estate Investment in the Case-Shiller Composite Cities
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)In this paper we estimate the housing services dividend in eight major U.S. cities using data from the U.S. Census. We then construct quarterly time series of housing investment total returns using the Case-Shiller house ... -
Shifting Preferences and Time-Varying Parameters in Demand Analysis: A Monte Carlo Study
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)Using Monte Carlo experiments, I address two issues in demand analysis. The first relates to the performance of local flexible functional forms in recovering the time-varying elasticities of a true model, and in correctly ... -
Three essays on empirical macroeconomics and financial markets
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-21)This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical macroeconomics and financial markets in the United States. Although they can be considered as three independent essays, their findings are connected with each other ... -
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
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On the Allocative Efficiency of Competitive Prices in Economies with Incomplete Markets
(2003-09)A new measure of constrained efficiency for application in economies with incomplete markets is presented. This measure --- termed Allais- Malinvaud efficiency --- can be viewed as adjusting for market incompleteness not ... -
A Consistent Firm Objective When Markets are Incomplete: Profit Maximization
(Econometric Society, 2004-08-11)In economies with private firm ownership, when markets are incomplete, and firm shareholders change over time, there is no broad agreement on what ought to be a firm's objective. It is shown that ex-post, profit maximization ... -
Bankruptcy in general equilibrium
(Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2000)In this paper, I construct a model of an exchange economy in which bankruptcy arises in a manner similar to what we observe. This model is a more realistic representation of some markets in which intertemporal assets are ... -
A Simple Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theories of Consumer Bankruptcy
(2012-04-18)A test of adverse events and strategic timing theories can be conducted by determining whether some relevant financial decision variables, such as financial benefit from filing for bankruptcy, or debt discharged in bankruptcy ... -
Large stores and contracting for mall locations
(2012-04-18)We analyze the contracting problem between a shopping mall and potential anchors (large stores) in a market where consumers with high search costs must choose shopping destinations prior to learning prices. Our model ... -
Personal Bankruptcy: Reconciling Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Hypotheses Using Heterogeneity in Filing Types
(2012-04-18)The strategic timing and adverse events hypotheses of personal bankruptcy have received particular attention. Existing research focuses on proving or disproving either hypothesis, using a strict interpretation of the role ...