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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 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 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 ...
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 the Pine Straw Industry in a Georgia Community
(2007-12-15)
This dissertation examines the pine straw industry and its interaction with labor, local communities and land in a community in Georgia. As a relatively new industry within the forest products sector, the pine straw ...
Three Essays on the Valuation of Natural Resources in Recreation and Tourism
(2011-04-29)
This dissertation examines the demand behavior of recreational participants, their preference for resource attributes and their valuations of nature-based outdoor activities and related natural resources. The results are ...
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 ...
Three essays on toxic chemical releases, house values, health and labor productivity
(2007-08-15)
The Toxics Release Inventory is a public access database established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) to protect public health, safety and the environment from toxic chemical hazards. ...
Three Essays on Wildland Fire Economics
(2012-05-07)
This dissertation consists of three manuscripts examining different aspects of wildland fire economics, with a specific focus on prescribed burning and expenditures made by the USDA Forest Service on wildland fire suppression. ...