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The Economics of Film Distribution 

Byrd, William (2010-10-26)
The film industry, namely Hollywood, is characterized by a pattern of large budget releases during what may be termed peak seasons. The peak seasons are centered on holidays, when demand is high, which in turn leads to ...

Ethanol and Its Effect on the U.S. Corn Market: How the Price of E-85 Influences Equilibrium Corn Prices and Equilibrium Quantity 

Pincin, Jared (2007-08-15)
This study analyzes the impact the market price of E-85 has on equilibrium price and quantity exchanged of corn in the U.S. market. After presenting the political history of federal interest and intervention in the ethanol ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three Essays in Labor Economics 

Newman, Jonathan (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 ...

Three Essays in Labor Economics 

Cowell, Zachary (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 the Application of Second Generation Cointegration Analysis in Time Series Econometrics 

Gueye, Ghislain (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 ...