An Index Of Macroeconomic Performance, 2013 Trinity College
An Index Of Macroeconomic Performance, Leo L. Liyeung
Senior Theses and Projects
There exists an abundance of economic indicators and ways to interpret macroeconomic data. While the rates of unemployment, inflation, GDP growth, etc all give important insights into the performance of an economy, all these indicators are, at best, incomplete ones that fail to look at the bigger picture of the economy as a whole.
Several macroeconomists have looked into the development of an Index of Macroeconomic Performance (IMP) that provides a comprehensive account of economic performance, the formulation of which allows for straightforward comparisons of macroeconomic performance internationally and intertemporally. Conventional indicators like unemployment, inflation, and GDP growth are taken …
Do Nhl Teams Regard Violence As A Positive Player Attribute And Thus Compensate For Violent Acts?, 2013 University of Northern Iowa
Do Nhl Teams Regard Violence As A Positive Player Attribute And Thus Compensate For Violent Acts?, Mitch Zimmerman
Major Themes in Economics
Hockey has always been a violent sport. Major injuries in sports have made headlines in recent years, so it is important to understand how National Hockey League (NHL) organizations view, use, and sometimes abuse violence. It’s not a secret that some players in the NHL don’t fit the general profile of a skilled hockey player. This paper investigates whether the unofficial title of “enforcer” really exists in the NHL by showing whether teams compensate certain players with non-typical or “enforcer” skill sets. Using a clustering analysis and a regression analysis there is a clear indication that NHL organizations do in …
Designing Affordable Housing For Adaptability: Principles, Practices, & Application, 2013 Pitzer College
Designing Affordable Housing For Adaptability: Principles, Practices, & Application, Micaela R. Danko
Pitzer Senior Theses
While environmental and economic sustainability have been driving factors in the movement towards a more resilient built environment, social sustainability is a factor that has received significantly less attention over the years. Federal support for low-income housing has fallen drastically, and the deficit of available, adequate, affordable homes continues to grow. In this thesis, I explore one way that architects can design affordable housing that is intrinsically sustainable. In the past, subsidized low-income housing has been built as if to provide a short-term solution—as if poverty and lack of affordable housing is a short-term problem. However, I argue that adaptable …
'Clean Energy' At What Cost?, 2013 Pitzer College
'Clean Energy' At What Cost?, Rachel E. Conrad
Pitzer Senior Theses
Ecuador was ‘refounded’ at the turn of the 21st century, with the articulation of progressive and inclusive ideals in a new Constitution. Social movements and leftist intellectuals in Ecuador have expressed that president Rafael Correa has failed to uphold the 2008 Constitution’s goals and values. President Correa and his Alianza PAIS government have utilized the rhetoric of the revolutionary ideals articulated in the Constitution, but in practice, they have continued to implement the status quo Western development model, and a large part of their development strategy involves ‘neo-extractive’ activities. Hydroelectric energy production is contributing to the ‘neo-extractive’ development model …
The Relationship Between Tax Structure And The Lives Of Individuals: Who Wins And Who Loses, 2013 Olivet Nazarene University
The Relationship Between Tax Structure And The Lives Of Individuals: Who Wins And Who Loses, David Werner Parker
Honors Program Projects
This study takes a look at various forms of taxation, as well as how the various options impact households. The current system is examined, and it is compared to two alternatives, which are the flat tax and the consumption tax. The positives and negatives of each option are evaluated. Each option is also applied to a family on the poverty line, a family that makes the average household income, and a wealthy family; calculations are done to determine how much income tax they would have to pay under each of them. The second part of the paper takes a look …
Air Pollution And Procyclical Mortality, 2013 Georgia State University
Air Pollution And Procyclical Mortality, Garth Heutel, Christopher J. Ruhm
ECON Publications
Prior research demonstrates that mortality rates increase during economic booms and decrease during economic busts, but little analysis has been conducted investigating the role of environmental risks as potential mechanisms for this relationship. We investigate the contribution of air pollution to the procyclicality of deaths by combining state-level data on overall, cause-specific, and age-specific mortality rates with state-level measures of ambient concentrations of three types of pollutants and the unemployment rate. After controlling for demographic variables and state and year fixed-effects, we find a significant positive correlation between carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations and mortality rates. Controlling for CO, particulate matter …
What Can We Learn From The Existing Evidence Of The Business Case For Investments In Nursing Care: Importance Of Content, Context, And Policy Environment, 2013 Marquette University
What Can We Learn From The Existing Evidence Of The Business Case For Investments In Nursing Care: Importance Of Content, Context, And Policy Environment, Olga Yakusheva, Douglas Wholey, Kevin D. Frick
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
Decisions of health care institutions to invest in nursing care are often guided by mixed and conflicting evidence of effects of the investments on organizational function and sustainability. This paper uses new evidence generated through Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI)-funded research and published in peer-reviewed journals, to illustrate where the business case for nursing investments stands and to discuss factors that may limit the existing evidence and its transferability into clinical practice. We conclude that there are 3 limiting factors: (1) the existing business case for nursing investments is likely understated due to the inability of most studies to …
Testing Monotonicity In Unobservables With Panel Data, 2013 Singapore Management University
Testing Monotonicity In Unobservables With Panel Data, Liangjun Su, Stefan Hoderlein, Halbert White
Research Collection School Of Economics
Monotonicity in a scalar unobservable is a crucial identifying assumption for an important class of nonparametric structural models accommodating unobserved heterogeneity. Tests for this monotonicity have previously been unavailable. This paper proposes and analyzes tests for scalar monotonicity using panel data for structures with and without time-varying unobservables, either partially or fully nonseparable between observables and unobservables. Our nonparametric tests are computationally straightforward, have well behaved limiting distributions under the null, are consistent against precisely specified alternatives, and have standard local power properties. We provide straightforward bootstrap methods for inference. Some Monte Carlo experiments show that, for empirically relevant sample …
Impact Of Food Inflation On Poverty In The Philippines, 2013 Singapore Management University
Impact Of Food Inflation On Poverty In The Philippines, Tomoki Fujii
Research Collection School Of Economics
We simulate the impact of food inflation between June 2006 and June 2008 on poverty across different areas and between agricultural and non-agricultural households. We explicitly treat the spatial heterogeneity in food inflation and the differences in consumption and production patterns across households by merging household expenditure survey and price datasets at the provincial level or lower. Although some of the poor agricultural households may have escaped poverty, the poorest of the poor, whether they are in an agricultural household or not, are severely and adversely affected by the food inflation.
Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: Quarter 4, 2012, 2013 The University of Montana-Missoula
Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: Quarter 4, 2012, Kara Grau
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
This report examines spending profiles of nonresident travelers to Montana. It displays the average daily expenditures by purpose of trip for different spending categories during the fourth quarter of 2012.
Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: Quarter 2, 2012, 2013 The University of Montana-Missoula
Montana Nonresident Traveler Expenditure Profiles: Quarter 2, 2012, Kara Grau
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
This report examines spending profiles of nonresident travelers to Montana. It displays the average daily expenditures by purpose of trip for different spending categories during the second quarter of 2012.
Local Linear Gmm Estimation Of Functional Coefficient Iv Models With Application To The Estimation Of Rate Of Return To Schooling, 2013 Singapore Management University
Local Linear Gmm Estimation Of Functional Coefficient Iv Models With Application To The Estimation Of Rate Of Return To Schooling, Liangjun Su, Irina Murtazashvili, Aman Ullah
Research Collection School Of Economics
We consider the local linear GMM estimation of functional coe cient models with a mix of discrete and continuous data and in the presence of endogenous regressors. We establish the asymptotic normality of the estimator and derive the optimal instrumental variable that minimizes the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix among the class of all local linear GMM estimators. Data-dependent bandwidth sequences are also allowed for. We propose a nonparametric test for the constancy of the functional coefficients, study its asymptotic properties under the null hypothesis as well as a sequence of local alternatives and global alternatives, and propose a bootstrap version for …
Principles Of Macroeconomics: Activist Vs. Austerity Policies, 2013 University of California, Los Angeles
Principles Of Macroeconomics: Activist Vs. Austerity Policies, Howard Sherman, Mike Meeropol
HOWARD J SHERMAN
This is an economics textbook comparing Neoclassical economic theories with Progressive economic theories, written in extremely accessible prose.
Hungry Capital: The Financialization Of Food, 2013 City University London
Hungry Capital: The Financialization Of Food, Luigi Russi
Luigi Russi
Over the past thirty years, the ability of global finance to affect aspects of everyday life has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The world of food bears vivid testimony to this tendency, through the scars opened by the 2008 world food price crisis, the iron fist of retailing giants that occupy the supply chain and the unsustainable ecological footprint left behind by global production networks. Hungry Capital offers a rigorous analysis of the influence that financial imperatives exert on the food economy at different levels: from the direct use of edible commodities as an object of speculation to the …
Individually Rational Buyback Contracts With Inventory Level Dependent Demand, 2013 Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
Individually Rational Buyback Contracts With Inventory Level Dependent Demand, Lokendra Devagan, R K Amit, Peeyush Mehta, Sanjeev Swami, Kripa Shanker
R K Amit
In this paper, we consider a supply chain coordination problem when demand faced by a retailer is influenced by the amount of inventory displayed on the retail shelf. We assume that shelf space inventory is used as one of the levers to stimulate demand. Our objective in this research is to design individually rational contracts that coordinate the supply chain when the retailer faces inventory-level-dependent demand. We consider a buyback contract where any leftover inventory at the retailer can be returned to the supplier at a pre-specified terms of the buyback contract. The existing buyback contracts in the supply chain …
Cambodia’S Garment Industry: A Case Study In Governance, 2013 Occidental College
Cambodia’S Garment Industry: A Case Study In Governance, Sophal Ear
Sophal Ear
Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis, 2013 Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis, Shatakshee Dhongde, Camelia Minoiu
Shatakshee Dhongde
Múltiplas Camadas Das Relações Internacionais Entre A Diplomacia E A Paradiplomacia, 2013 Federal University of Roraima (UFRR)
Múltiplas Camadas Das Relações Internacionais Entre A Diplomacia E A Paradiplomacia, Prof. Dr. Eloi Martins Senhoras
Elói Martins Senhoras
No abstract provided.
The Economic Situation In Europe, North America And The Cis, 2012-13, 2013 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
The Economic Situation In Europe, North America And The Cis, 2012-13, Robert C. Shelburne
Robert C. Shelburne
Economic report to the UN Economic and Social Council on the economic situation in Europe, North America and the CIS in 2013. Also available in Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, and Chinese on the UN ECOSOC website.
Ii. Safety First, 2013 University of Chicago
Ii. Safety First, Lester G. Telser
Lester G Telser
Abstract Selecting that portfolio which maximizes the expected return such that the probability of disaster is below a prescribed level furnishes a reasonable criterion for choice among risky alternatives although it expresses preferences only among alternatives that satisfy the constraint. Criteria for Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty JEL D81