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Economics Of Covid-19 Reading List, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

Reading list for The Economics of COVID-19, taught in Fall 2020

Economics Of Covid-19 Reading List, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

Reading list for The Economics of COVID-19, taught in Fall 2020

Economics Of Covid-19 Syllabus, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This is the syllabus for the course, The Economics of COVID-19, taught in the Fall of 2020

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 1 Macroeconomics, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This is the first project from The Economics of COVID-19, taught in fall 2020. It focuses on macroeconomics.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 1 Macroeconomics, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This is the first project from The Economics of COVID-19, taught in fall 2020. It focuses on macroeconomics.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 2 Policy, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 2 Policy, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Voluntary Simplicity: An Exploration Through Text Analysis, Apollo Demierel

Barowsky School of Business | Faculty Scholarship

Overconsumption poses severe ethical problems and causes harm to the environment. Today many individuals change their consumption practices and actively limit their overall consumption due to ethical and environmental concerns. This article focuses on voluntary simplicity, a sustainable lifestyle phenomenon that comprises environment-friendly consumption practices as an innate characteristic. This paper offers a fresh and nuanced understanding of voluntary simplicity through the lens of social cognitive theory (SCT) and by examining textual content generated by voluntary simplifiers on Facebook. Five thousand three hundred thirty-six Facebook posts and comments were scrapped and examined using sentiment analysis, associative networks and cluster analysis. …

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 3 Interview And Industry Analysis, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the third project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020. The project involves an interview and industry analysis.

Economics Of Covid-19 Project 3 Interview And Industry Analysis, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the third project for The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020. The project involves an interview and industry analysis.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 1 Macroeconomic Data, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the first in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

When Vertical Is Horizontal: How Vertical Mergers Lead To Increases In “Effective Concentration”, Serge Moresi, Steven C. Salop

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article explains the inherent loss of an indirect competitor and reduction in competition when a vertical merger raises input foreclosure concerns. We then calculate a measure of the effective increase in the HHI measure of concentration for the downstream market, and we refer to this “proxy” measure as the “dHHI.” We derive the dHHI measure by comparing the pricing incentives and associated upward pricing pressure (“UPP”) involved in two alternative types of acquisitions: (i) vertical mergers that raise unilateral input foreclosure concerns (and the associated vertical GUPPI measures), and (ii) horizontal acquisitions of partial ownership interests among …

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 2 Recession Dating, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 2 Recession Dating, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 2 Recession Dating, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the second in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 4 Cares Act Preview, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fourth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 4 Cares Act Preview, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fourth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 4 Cares Act Preview, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fourth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Nebraska Monthly Economic Indicators: December 23, 2020, Eric Thompson

Leading Economic Indicator Reports

The LEI-N rose by 0.61% during November 2020. The rising indicator suggests that the Nebraska economy will expand over the next 6 months. Five of the six components of the leading indicator improved during November. Manufacturing hours-worked and building permits for single-family homes both rose. Business expectations also were positive, with respondents to the November Survey of Nebraska Business reporting plans to increase employment. The value of the U.S. dollar also declined in November, which will improve competitive conditions for agricultural producers, manufacturers, and other Nebraska businesses which export. Airline passenger enplanements were the only component to decline during November.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 5 Other Country, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the fifth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

The Conservatism Principle And Asymmetric Preferences Over Reporting Errors, Jivas Chakravarthy, Timothy W. Shields

ESI Working Papers

At present, accounting conservatism is generally viewed from a measurement or reporting perspective. In contrast, we consider whether it relates to a moral rule of conduct. Conservatism has been described as deriving from a preference for reporting errors to be in the direction of understatement rather than overstatement. We experimentally pair Reporters who provide information with Users who rely on the information. We posit that under misaligned incentives that motivate aggressive reporting, Users view an aggressive report as reflecting Reporters’ exploitative intent and expect that a social norm prohibiting aggressive reporting applies. We predict that Users use noisy reporting errors …

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 6 Fiscal Policy, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the sixth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 6 Fiscal Policy, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the sixth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Credit Cards, Credit Utilization, And Consumption, Scott Fulford, Scott Schuh

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Credit bureau data show remarkably stable consumer utilization of unsecured debt over the business cycle, life cycle, and individually quarter-to-quarter, despite massive variation in available credit. To explain these new findings, we propose a life-cycle consumption model with heterogeneous preferences, endogenous payment choice, and the option to revolve debt for consumption smoothing. Using diary data to identify payment use, the estimated model matches consumption and credit use at every frequency and suggests that around half the population has an endogenously high marginal propensity to consume. The results suggest understanding credit availability and heterogeneous use may lead to richer counter-cyclical policies.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 7 Covid-19 And Gender, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the seventh in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Organic Production Of Livestock And Livestock Products In Nebraska, Elliott James Dennis

Extension Farm and Ranch Management News

First paragraph:

USDA “Certified Organic” is a form of production that has received considerable public attention in the last 10 years, particularly among small, beginning and/or minority farmers. Spiking retail prices for red meat and poultry have seemingly accelerated consumer’s interest in organic locally produced products. Consumers demonstrate their desire for these products by paying premiums when purchasing meat products. Producers receive premiums by either directly marketing live animals to consumers that are custom harvested or marketing animals to meat wholesalers. The primary difference is the way premiums are captured. Producers doing custom harvesting capture the full premium whereas producers …

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 8 Covid-19 And Race Part 1, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the eighth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Economics Of Covid-19 In Class Work 8 Covid-19 And Race Part 1, Sara Gundersen

Economics Faculty Publications

This contains the eighth in class handout from The Economics of COVID-19, which was taught in fall 2020.

Stock Market Correlations To Economic Indicators, Anthony K. Quandt

Honors Theses

For this project, I researched how representative the S&P 500 (a common index of choice to represent the market) is of the economic well-being of the US. I found that stock market data can be used an as indicator of the economic well-being of the U.S.. The results do not indicate that the stock market leads to recovery, but it does suggest that it is correlated with recovery. In my analysis, I compared the S&P 500 performance to four different economic indicators: Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), The Consumer Price Index (CPI), Average Weekly Private Wages, and Unemployment Rate. A …

Firms, Jobs, And Gender Disparities In Top Incomes: Evidence From Brazil, Felipe Benguria

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper studies the gender disparities among top incomes in Brazil during the period 1994-2013 using administrative data on the universe of formal-sector job spells and detailed information on educational attainment, employers, and occupations performed. Over these two decades, differences in pay and participation between genders have narrowed, yet the process has been slow and women are still severely underrepresented, especially within the very top percentiles of the earnings distribution. The following findings highlight the role of firms and occupations in explaining these patterns. At the start of the period, women in the top percentile of the distribution owe a …