Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Economics"
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Income and Price Elasticity: Econometric Model of Paper Product
(2012-05-22)
This thesis is about income and price elasticity of paper products. It is a panel data model which combines time-series data and cross-section data. The pooled data are based on twenty-three major forest consumed counties ...
Inflationary Effects of Oil Price Fluctuations in the United States and Canada
(2011-04-18)
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the inflationary effects of shocks in oil prices with a specific interest in commodity currency markets. The model includes a comparison between the United States and Canada. The ...
The Influence of the Currency-Banking Debate on Early Viennese Monetary Theory
(2010-10-05)
This thesis seeks to examine the intellectual heritage of the debate between the Currency School and the Banking School of 19th-century England on three Viennese economists: Rudolf Hilferding, Ludwig von Mises, and Joseph ...
An Intervention Analysis Model Examining the Effects of the Capital Purchase & Targeted Investment Programs on the Stock Prices of U.S. Banking Institutions
(2012-01-24)
This thesis uses an Intervention Analysis as an econometric procedure to determine what effect, if any, government capital injection had on stock prices. More specifically, we look at the effect that the initiation of the ...
Investigating Health Determinants in OECD Countries: A Random Effects Analysis
(2008-12-15)
In previous literature, there has been contradicting results regarding what indicators serve as determinants of health. This paper re-examines the health production function by using the economic theory of production to ...
Is There a Gap of Banking Efficiency Between Accession and Non-accession Countries in Central and Eastern Europe
(2006-12-15)
This thesis divides the Central and Eastern European countries into two groups: accession countries which have or will attend Europe Union and non-accession countries which are not willing to attend Europe Union. The ...
Lag Order and Critical Values for the RMA Based Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test
(2010-07-06)
This thesis examines the validity of asymptotic critical values for a Recursive Mean Adjustment (RMA) based Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test. Cheung and Lai show that critical values for the Ordinary least ...
Legislated Incentives and Expectations
(2013-04-23)
The United States Congress passes several pieces of legislation with the intent to improve the overall livelihood of Americans and assist other nations toward economic development. This collection of essays identifies ...
Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform: Effects on the Death Rate, a 2004 Cross-Sectional Analysis
(2009-07-30)
This thesis scrutinizes the effects that tort reform, health expenditures per capita, and the median malpractice payment per state has on the age-adjusted death rate. The data is from 2004 and was collected for each state. ...
Obesity as a Function of the Efficient Allocation of Time and Optimality in Consumption: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination
(2005-08-15)
The goal of this thesis is to examine the relationship between economic conditions, such as allocative efficiency, utility maximization and time costs, and obesity. A theory is developed and two empirical models tested. ...
On the Relationship between Criminal History and Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets: Evidence from the Field
(2013-07-23)
It has been shown in the literature that any contact at all with the criminal justice system presents an individual with a significant challenge in obtaining employment. It has also been shown that African-Americans are ...
Party Polarization: Congressional Divergence on Environmental Policy from 1970-2008
(2012-04-17)
We investigate empirically the importance of a conjectured linkage between economic conditions and increasing party divergence with respect to national-level environmental policy in the United States. Using data from ...
Prescription Drug Prices and the United States' Health Care Market, A Cross-Sectional Analysis
(2009-11-20)
This thesis is an analysis of the United States health care market and what factors most significantly influence spending habits. The data obtained for this study is from 2004 and was collected for each state through various ...
A Reexamination of the Structure of Scientific Revolution and Application: The Rise of Mathematical Economics
(2006-05-15)
I propose to reexamine the works of History of Science writers, especially Thomas S. Kuhn. Kuhn's theory is susceptible to contradiction when applied to itself. Is ""The Structure of Scientific Revolution"" nothing more ...
Rising Health Care Costs and the Two Price Market: The Impact of Third-Party Payers
(2007-12-15)
Martin Feldstein wrote several important papers in the 1970s concerning the reciprocal growth of health care inflation and insurance levels. This paper attempts to develop a new theoretical model based on a two-price ...
Terrorism's Effect on Tourism: Developed vs. Developing Countries
(2008-08-15)
This thesis studies the effect terrorism has on the tourism industry highlighting differences between developed and developing countries.
Third Country Effects of the European Union on the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate News
(2006-05-15)
This thesis investigates third country effects in the monetary model of exchange rate news. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether the country chosen as the third country makes a difference. US variables as the ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconometrics
(2022-07-27)
For the first chapter, past literature has shown that 1970 amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) led to significant reduction in air pollution early 1970s, and that it had positive infant health consequences for the cohorts ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2023-04-25)
These three essays relate to various areas of microeconomics, including labor, health, and education economics. In Chapter One, we investigate the relationship between primary care clinic performance and managerial turnover. ...
Three Essays in Labor Economics
(2016-05-04)
The three present essays approach education, human capital signaling, and wage theories, and as such, fit squarely in the field of labor economics. Labor, as one of the three factors of production, has unique and important ...