Browsing by Author "Beil, Richard"

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Cartel Monitoring and NCAA Football

Makofske, Matthew (2012-01-06)

In the last twenty-five years, economists have developed and tested the hypothesis that the member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association behave as a cartel and contrive market power in the sports of ...

Consumption and Welfare Effects of Taxes on "Sin"

Reeder, Ryan (2011-04-12)

An Indirect Translog System and Linear Expenditure System are applied to Consumer Expenditure Survey data to estimate the effects of “sin taxes” on tobacco, alcohol, and food consumed away from home. Own-price elasticities ...

Economic Impacts of Gold Production in South Africa

Kinyua, Peter (2011-08-03)

The causes of rising demand pull inflation in South Africa are examined with an eye on the international price of gold given the importance of gold mining in the country. Effects of the money supply, exchange rate, foreign ...

Essays on South Africa: Exchange Rates, Bilateral Trade and Inflation

Kinyua, Peter (2012-04-20)

South Africa shows how natural resources can be harnessed to build a successful economy. This success gives rise to peculiar macroeconomic issues that warrant analysis. Chapter one of this dissertation investigates the ...

The Ethanol Market: An Econometric Inquiry into the Market for E85

Tatum, Shaun (2007-12-15)

This study analyzes the ethanol market in order to determine if E85 can replace gasoline as the United States primary fuel. After presenting the history of the ethanol market, past literature on ethanol, and legislation ...

An Evaluation of the Effects of the Housing Bubble on Consumer Preferences in the Housing Market: A Hedonic Pricing Model

Blair, Robert (2010-11-17)

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the effects of the recent housing bubble on consumer preferences across the entire United States along with individual census regions. A hedonic pricing model is used to analyze ...

Examining a Contractionary Monetary Policy Shock over Two Regimes

Otto, Daniel (2010-12-01)

The goal of this thesis is to improve on the work done by Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles Evans in the 1996 article “The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks: Evidence from the Flow of Funds”. In order ...

The Impact Of Right-To-Work Laws On Interstate Cost Of Living

Edenfield, Karin (2010-08-09)

The impact of right-to-work laws on cost of living differentials is a highly controversial topic due to its possible political implications. This study seeks to investigate the determinants of geographic cost of living ...

Impact of the Dialysis Industry on Kidney Transplants

Lawson, Thomas (2009-12-15)

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of the kidney dialysis industry on the kidney transplants, both cadaveric and living. This particular topic has not been addressed in formal research dealing with the organ ...

Inflationary Effects of Oil Price Fluctuations in the United States and Canada

Vick, Christopher (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 ...

Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform: Effects on the Death Rate, a 2004 Cross-Sectional Analysis

Gibson, James (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

Pirouz, Kian (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. ...

Rising Health Care Costs and the Two Price Market: The Impact of Third-Party Payers

Robinson, Joshua (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 ...