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Title: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF MACRO ECONOMIC VARIABLES ON INFLATION AND FORECASTING INFLATION
Author: Pandey, Rachana
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The objective of the current study is to empirically determine whether certain macroeconomic variables play a significant role in influencing inflation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and also to forecast inflation. The study...

Title: EXCHANGE RATE REGIMES, FX LIQUIDITY RISK, AND CARRY TRADE RETURNS
Author: Abankwa, Samuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Industrial management, Economics
Description: The dissertation consists of three related topics: FX market-wide liquidity measure and individual currency-pair liquidity co-movements, FX liquidity risk and carry trade returns, and the forward premium puzzle in foreign exchange markets. This is...

Title: EXCHANGE RATE, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FDI: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Author: Wu, Linxi
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: In this paper we investigate the dynamic relationships among international trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate of China. The analysis is based on a vector auto-regression (VAR) model using historical data. The empirical res...

Title: Econometric Determinants of Residential Solar Development in the United States
Author: Thomas, Micah
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Renewable energy sources
Description: I perform a comprehensive econometric analysis of the demographic determinants of residential solar installations in the contiguous United States. The exponential growth of residential solar in the United States has been aided by declining compone...

Title: Economic Implications of Decriminalization
Author: Viars, Shanyn
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics, Law
Description: Contrary to federal government policy in the United States toward illegal drug use, ten states enacted legislation to decriminalize marijuana during the 1970’s. The War on Drugs campaign of the 1980’s-1990’s halted state marijuana reform policy un...

Title: Effects of Hunting Activities on Deer Vehicle Collisions
Author: Ma, Yunhe
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Deer-related vehicle crashes are a serious traffic safety hazard in the state of North Carolina, and number of DVCs spikes during hunting seasons. This paper provides an econometric analysis of the relationship between hunting activities and deer-...

Title: Estimation Of Preference-Based Measures Of Health From Disease-Specific Clinical Outcome Measures For Total Hip And Knee Arthroplasty Patients
Author: Odum, Susan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: Transfer to utility (TTU) or mapping methodology allows researchers to estimate a health utility from a disease-specific measure and calculate quality adjusted life years for economic evaluations. The purpose of this study was to develop regressio...

Title: Examining Policy, Enabler And Access Factor Effects On U.S State Medicaid Pharmaceutical Utilization And Expenditures
Author: EGHAN, EMMANUEL
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Health services administration, Industrial management
Description: Prescription drug expenditures and utilization are the fastest growing and most widely varying expenditures within Medicaid programs across US states. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the subsequent Medicaid state expansion...

Title: FBS CONFERENCE SIZE AND ITS EFFECT ON PROFITABILITY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Author: Moore, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Previous studies have explored the dynamic between member schools and the conferences to which they belong, particularly regarding optimal alignment and profit maximization. Conference members have to decide whether switching is worthwhile, and as...

Title: Forecasting Inflation - An Empirical Study on Predictive Power of Various Time-Series Models
Author: Zhao, Peng
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: In this thesis, I investigate the background and causes of major inflation in recent history and empirically study forecasting of future quarterly inflation rates for three typical countries and regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...

Title: GAS PRICES, CLIMATE, AND THE POWERBALL JACKPOT: IMPACTS ON U.S. CONVENIENCE STORE NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES
Author: McNeill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper examines the effects that gasoline prices, climatic conditions, and the Powerball jackpot size have on weekly scanned-data results of NA beverage sales (unit and dollar sales) at U.S. convenience stores from 2010-2016:Q1. The results in...

Title: HAS THE SHRIMPING INDUSTRY BOUNCED BACK SINCE DEEPWATER HORIZON?
Author: BROWNSTEIN, JONATHAN
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Nearly fifteen months after the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill of April 20, 2010, later characterized as one of the largest accidental oil spills in United States history, BP submitted findings showing that the Gulf economy reached pre-spill act...

Title: HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES TRANSITIONED SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA.
Author: Amrelle, Kevin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Since 1989, significant mortgage finance innovation and federal policies with the intent of increasing homeownership participation particularly amongst minorities were implemented until the 2007 recession. This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Fi...

Title: Hedonic Price Valuation of Vintage Ferraris
Author: Spadaro, Paul
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper provides an econometric analysis of vintage Ferrari sales from automobile auctions between July 2002 and January 2016. Although Enzo Ferrari made race cars earlier, the first Ferrari badged car was produced in 1947. The "Enzo" era, was ...

Title: How High School Location Affects Your Odds to Make it to the NBA
Author: Chopra, Rajat
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Some states or metropolitan statistical areas produce more professional athletes when compared to their representation in the population whereas some areas produce less than their represented population. Figure 1 shows the geographical distributio...

Title: How the Brewing Industry Can Support a Circular Economy in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Hendren, Heather
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Civil engineering, Economics
Description: This research investigates beer production in Mecklenburg County and its impact on water demand, and waste production, with a specific focus on how beer production fits into Charlotte’s public strategy of a Circular Economy. Charlotte adopted a Ci...

Title: If You Win, They Will Come: Major League Baseball and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis
Author: Pouler, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Sports administration
Description: ABSTRACTThis paper extends the Knowles et al. (1992) paper titled "The Demand for Major League Baseball: A Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis." The main research question is to replicate, and improve, the original paper using data from ...

Title: Improvement of Customer Baseline Calculation Methodologies of Demand Response using Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform
Author: Opadere, Johnson
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Demand response is a reduction in electricity consumption designed to prevent system emergencies stemming from demand spikes during peak periods. While demand response has been embraced as a cheaper alternative than adding peaking generation, the ...

Title: Incentivizing Farmland and Investments: Expanding on an Evaluation of Portfolio Performance When Incorporating Agricultural Investments
Author: Morrill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Agriculture--Economic aspects
Description: ABSTRACTMATTHEW MORRILL. Incentivizing farmland investments: expanding on an evaluation of portfolio performance when incorporating agricultural investments. (Under the direction of DR. CRAIG DEPKEN)Farmland investments have shown to have remarkab...

Title: Income volatility and county size: a study of North Carolina county population size and per capita personal income volatility
Author: Carman, Allison
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This investigates the relationship between North Carolina counties and patterns in per capita personal income volatility over various samples ranging from 1969 to 2014. The overarching hypothesis is that people in smaller counties experience incre...