Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Economics"
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Three Essays in Labor Economics
(2023-04-24)
I focus on the task content of work and its effects on labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I estimate the impact of an individual’s occupational tasks on decisions to claim disability insurance. I show that changes in the ...
Three Essays on Economics of the Parliaments
(2020-04-22)
I focus on the economics of the Turkish Parliament. In Chapter One, I estimate the impact of one additional Member of Parliament (MP) representing a province on that province’s economic growth: an extra MP increases the ...
Three Essays On India’s Economic Development Under The British Raj
(2022-07-28)
“Why isn’t the whole world developed?” is a vital question posed by Richard A. Easterlin in regard to the divergent patterns of growth and development across nations. While addressing the causes of economic underdevelopment ...
Three Essays on Public Economics and Economic History
(2024-05-02)
How do government regulatory policies shape economic output and consumer welfare? What are the costs and benefits of government regulations? These two fundamental inquiries are at the core of my research. In this dissertation, ...
Three Essays on the Application of Second Generation Cointegration Analysis in Time Series Econometrics
(2017-07-31)
Frank (2009) constructed a comprehensive panel of state-level income inequality measures using individual tax filing data from the Internal Revenue Service. Employing an array of cointegration exercises for the data, he ...
Three Essays on the Macroeconomic Effect of Fiscal Policy in the U.S.
(2017-05-01)
Over the past few years, debates among economists on the magnitude of fiscal expansion effects on the economy have seen something of a resurgence in the economics literature. On the one hand, New Keynesian researchers find ...
Three Essays on Time Series Econometrics Analysis and Financial Market Applications
(2015-08-06)
This dissertation rst revisits the mean reversion properties of relative stock prices when
the US and the UK sever as reference countries. We present strong evidence of nonlinear
mean reversion of the stock price indices ...
Three Essays on Time Series Forecasting with Big Data
(2020-07-16)
In the first chapter, we propose factor-based out of sample forecasting models for US dollar real exchange rates. We estimate latent common factors employing an array of data dimensionality reduction approaches that include ...
Understanding Eating Behavior: How to improve it
(2022-04-20)
The relation between education and health has been well established in the literature, especially as it pertains to chronic diseases like obesity. But, due to data limitations, most extant research lacks a direct explanation ...
The United States Government Provided Insurance, a Time-Series Analysis
(2012-04-19)
This thesis analyses the United States’ health care market, with particular attention given to the effect of the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid on U.S health care expenditure. Econometric analysis was conducted for ...
What Determines The Foreign Ownership Share of A Country's Banking Assets?
(2008-12-15)
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is an important new element in the international framework that affects the regulation of the financial sector of every World Trade Organization (WTO) member and all potential ...