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PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION WITH TECHNOLOGY AND ALLOCATION OF COMMON POOL RESOURCES
(2012)
This dissertation consists of three essays that examine product differentiation with new technology and allocation of water. The first article present a theoretical model that analyzes the effect of the introduction of ...
ESSAYS ON ACADEMIC LABOR MARKET AND FAMILY PLANNING
(2015)
This dissertation consists of three independent papers. The first paper analyzes the impact of work-life policies on representation of female faculty in economics department of U.S. doctoral granting institutions. In ...
EMPIRICAL MODELS OF ECONOMIC CHOICE PROCESSES
(2012)
The first chapter provides the first empirical attempt in using the new maximum likelihood-minimum power divergence (ML-MPD) binary response estimator. This nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator is used to model the ...
THREE ESSAYS ON TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY, AND SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE ECONOMICS
(2019)
This dissertation contains three independent chapters in the field of transportation, energy and
supply chain finance Economics. The first paper applies an ordered probit model to examine how
the availability of commercial ...
Intertemporal Dynamics of Market and Production Charactoristics
(2012)
This dissertation consists of three independent but related papers through the examination of intertemporal dynamics. The first paper develops a model of the Washington fresh asparagus industry accounting for intertemporal ...
THREE ESSAYS IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS: PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION, CONSUMER PREFERENCE AND REPUTATION
(2012)
My dissertation consists of three independent papers in microeconomics. The purpose of this dissertation includes investigating how government policy affects firms' decision and consumer behavior in the presence of product ...
ESSAYS ON HOP PRICE FORMATION AND THE BREWING INDUSTRY
(2014)
This dissertation consists of four papers analyzing export price formation of U.S. hops, consumers' willingness to pay for sensory attributes in beer, beer extrinsic attributes that affect consumers' choice of beer, and ...
Essays on Consumer Choice and Public Policy
(2019)
This dissertation consists of three chapters on consumer choice and public policy.
The first chapter re-evaluates the realized efficacy of increasing block pricing (IBP). IBP is expected to give a positive social benefit, ...
Three Essays on Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics
(2017)
This dissertation consists of three papers on industrial organization and environmental economics. The first paper analyzes a two-stage sequential-move model of location and pricing to identify firm's location, output, and ...
Policies, Politics, and Polities
(2019)
This dissertation addresses applied causal effect estimation concerning three topics in public choice and political economics. Chapter One studies the effect of prison privatization and public official corruption on how ...