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Three Essays on Financial Institutions and Markets
(2019-04-26)
In chapter 1, given the financial troubles facing state pension plans in recent years, we examine determinants of the ratio of assets to liabilities, or the funded ratio, based on data for 153 pension plans from 2001 to ...
Three Essays on Fish Demand Analysis
(2018-02-21)
The first chapter is themed around the catfish dispute between Vietnamese pangasius and U.S catfish. Vietnamese pangasius frozen fillets were accused of having depressing effect on U.S catfish prices, which in turn leads ...
Three Essays on Household Residential Sorting
(2016-07-08)
This dissertation includes three essays that analyze factors affect residential sorting across neighborhood. Chapter 1 estimates the effect of crime on household location choice using a two-stage residential sorting model ...
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 International Trade
(2011-05-06)
This dissertation is composed of three essays. The first essay assesses the impact of agricultural support policies on refined sugar exports. A theoretically consistent gravity model is extended to include the spatial ...
Three Essays on International Trade
(2018-04-24)
Chapter 1 investigates how tetracycline affects beef trade survival. We use United Nations Commodities Trade Statistics (UNComtrade): Harmonized System (HS) 020130 six-digit level of beef trade includes bovine cuts boneless, ...
Three Essays on Market and Non-Market Factors Affecting International Seafood Trade
(2011-03-25)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate essays investigating market and non-market factors affecting international seafood trade. The first essay analyzes the impact of food safety standards and management systems ...
Three Essays on Market Efficiency and Corporate Payout Policy
(2019-04-29)
Chapters 1 and 2 of this dissertation discuss a special form of regulation, soft intervention, in China. Securities Laws in China are administered by the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The CSRC has great ...
Three Essays on Non-Market Valuation Applications
(2015-12-10)
This dissertation is organized into three topics using nonmarket valuation applications. The first topic examines the demand behavior of recreational participants to the coastal counties in Alabama and Mississippi and ...
Three Essays on Pine Straw in Alabama: Needlefall Yields, Market Demands, and Landowner Interest in Harvesting
(2012-05-07)
Forestry in the South is undergoing a paradigm shift in which timber production is not necessarily the major ownership objective for landowners. As pulp and other forest products markets wane and smallholders are increasingly ...
Three Essays on Real Estate, Environmental, and Urban Economics Using the Hedonic Price Model Technique
(2006-05-15)
This dissertation is organized into three different topics in the fields of real estate economics, environmental economics, and urban economics, all of them linked by a common econometric technique. The first topic determines ...
Three Essays on Silvopasture in the Southeastern U.S.: Landowner and Community Assets, Natural Resource Professionals’ Perceptions, and Landowner Engagement
(2016-05-05)
Today’s natural resource professionals (NRP) support landowners in pursuit of multiple
objectives, including recreation, income, long-term value creation, and responsibly managing
natural resources for future generations. ...
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 Chinese Housing Market: Amenities, Environment, and Policies
(2016-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of amenities, environmental change, and development policy on the Chinese housing market. Chapter 1 examines the impact of the city water system improvement ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Climate Impacts on Agriculture
(2013-05-15)
Global warming has been a hot issue lately all around world not only because it has been in increasing trend since 1980s but also affects many economic sectors as well as different aspect of human life. The three essays ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Crime
(2019-07-30)
This dissertation consists of three essays on economics of crime. The first chapter
investigates the extent to which variations in temperature affect crime rates in the southeastern
states within a typical empirical ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water Quality
(2006-05-15)
Studies in natural resources economics apply different models ranging from a simple linear regression models to much more complex models requiring advance skills in Geographic Information Systems, statistics and computer ...
Three Essays on the Gender Wage Gap and Residential Water Demand
(2017-07-22)
This dissertation includes two essays that analyze the wage gap in twelve developing countries, and another essay focuses on residential water demand in China. Chapter 1 decomposes the gender wage differentials in twelve ...
Three Essays on the Impact of Automobile Production on Alabama’s Economy
(2012-01-03)
The Alabama state government has expanded economic incentives to attract auto industry in order to create additional employment and generate personal income for its citizens. As a result, large automobile firms and its ...
Three Essays on the International Economic Development
(2016-12-10)
This dissertation contains three essays as three chapters. The equilibrium displacement model (EDM) is employed to investigate the issues associated with the economic development in different context.
Chapter 1 ...