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Title: A Dynamic Approach to Optimizing Interventions and Mitigating Contagion Impacts in Financial Networks
Author: Farthing, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics, Finance, Economics
Description: While modern financial networks are so large, complex, and dynamic that the interactions between their members are impossible to model in their entirety, mathematical models with some simplifying assumptions allow for effective study of network dy...

Title: AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOAD REDUCTION EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYED IN DEMAND RESPONSE (DR) PROGRAMS OFFERED TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Economics
Description: In current electricity market, demand side buys power indirectly through electric utilities, and it makes the demand side inelastic to market's price volatility and significantly affects the efficiency of the market. To fix the problem, it is esse...

Title: AUTOMOTIVE AND LOGISTICS CLUSTERS TO DRIVE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS IN JAVA, INDONESIA
Author: Anggoro, Yudo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This study assesses the competitiveness of logistics and automotive industry clusters in Java economic corridor, Indonesia. The need for competitive industry clusters in Indonesia has emerged especially after the government launched its Master Pla...

Title: Durability, Indirect Bankruptcy Costs, and Capital Structure
Author: Shah, Dhara
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: I contribute to the literature by formally modeling the indirect bankruptcy costs for a firm that sells durable goods. Consumers concerned about warranties or future product services penalize the distressed firm by putting off purchases or leaving...

Title: EPIDEMIOLOGY, COSTS, AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF LOAD-BEARING SURFACE CHOICE IN PRIMARY TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY: CERAMIC-ON-POLYETHYLENE VS. METAL-ON-POLYETHYLENE
Author: Carnes, Keith
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: In an age of cost-consciousness in health care, it is essential that we seek to understand the ramifications of the choices where costs and expected clinical performance differ. When the cost differences are evolving and performance differences ar...

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: 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: 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: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...

Title: NONPARAMETRIC PREDICTIVE REGRESSION
Author: Yu, Xintian
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Finance, Economics
Description: In ﬁnancial time series nonlinear eﬀects and time-varying eﬀects are observed. In this dissertation we propose a predictive regression model with time varying coeﬃcients and functional coeﬃcients. It allows for nonstationary predictors. We establi...

Title: Neoliberalism, Gender, and Frontline COVID-19 Nurses
Author: Robbins, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Ethnology, Economics, Women's studies
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses have risen as well. Narratives around ...

Title: Nutrition and health among low-income children: Estimating the association with SNAP using a quasi-experimental approach
Author: Hudak, Katelin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Government policy, Economics
Description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s largest federal food assistance program. The goal of the program is to help low-income families afford a healthy diet. However, several studies have found that participation in S...

Title: PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR PATIENTS WITH SELECT DISEASES USING SPECIALTY MEDICATIONS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION TO TOTAL HEALTHCARE COSTS
Author: Rozario, Nigel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Economics, Pharmacy--Research
Description: Specialty medications are medications that require special manufacturing and distribution processes and usually for the treatment of rare diseases and conditions. As a result of the low volume of use and high overhead associated with manufacturing...

Title: QUANTIFYING LIGHT RAIL’S EFFECT ON INTRAURBAN DISTRIBUTION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMUTING PATTERNS
Author: Khabazi, Maryam
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Geography, Economics
Description: This dissertation consists of two consecutive parts. The first part examines the impact of light rail transit (LRT) investment on the type of jobs (i.e., industrial and wage composition) in neighborhoods adjacent to rail transit stations using Cha...

Title: REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, POPULATION GROWTH AND LOCAL SPENDING IN U.S. MICROPOLITAN AREAS, 2002-2014
Author: McShane, Chuck
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Economics, Demography
Description: The following dissertation adds to the literature on income convergence and population growth in the United States. It also expands knowledge on the relatively underexplored geography – the American micropolitan area. The study identifies determin...

Title: SPATIAL COMPETITION BASED ON CUSTOMERS' CHOICE HISTORIES: A STUDY OF TRADE FLOWS
Author: Kashiha, Mona
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Economics, Area studies
Description: In a world of differentiated firms, customers with the same observable characteristics reveal different choice behaviors. This research contributes to the modeling of competition in a market characterized by spatially differentiated firms and sign...

Title: STRATEGIES, INCENTIVES, AND DECISIONS: ILLICIT CROP CONTROL IN COLOMBIA
Author: Davalos Alvarez, Eleonora
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This dissertation examines three aspects of coca cultivation in Colombia. Fist, I evaluate how social investment in conjunction with eradication affects new coca crops. The results suggest that aerial spraying is effective in deterring farmers fro...

Title: Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
Author: Nelson, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Economics
Description: From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...

Title: THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL CHANGE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SOCCER TEAMS – AN EVENT STUDY ON THE TWO TOP TIER SWEDISH DIVISIONS
Author: Roskors, Andre
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This research examines the impact of managerial changes on Swedish soccer teams from the first and second Swedish soccer league. The research is conducted similar to an event study and regression analysis is employed to investigate the impact of t...