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Does consumer behavior exhibit time inconsistency? This is an essential, yet difficult question to answer. This dissertation attempts to answer this question based on a large-scale randomized experiment in the credit card market… Author: shui, haiyan Source: University of Maryland Download Link:
In the modern information society, there is now sea change in information generation, distribution and access. Print media is superseded by multimedia. It can be said the authoring or information generation has increased and multiformatted and the demand for access to it
My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment over the business cycle. I am interested in understanding the “over-qualification” of workers that occurs during periods of high unemployment, as increased congestion in the
My dissertation consists of two papers covering distinct topics within Microeconomic Theory. The first chapter is drawn from Matching Theory. One of the oldest but least understood matching problems is Gale and Shapley’s (1962) “roommates problem”: is there a stable way to
This dissertation contains three essays. In Chapter 2, I investigate the causal factors of the soft budget constraint (SBC) problem. Based on a panel dataset from a survey of Chinese enterprises, the test results support the policy burden hypothesis but not the
It seems that the term, which is nowadays in most use, in the literary world, is Knowledge Management. No domain has remained untouched by this new revolution. All business firms, companies, non-profit organizations, profit-making organizations, governmental institutions, academic organizations, research institutes, corporate,
One of the key argument advanced in support of entry into the EMU by hesitant countries is the expected increase in trade volumes. Previous work on measuring the impact of EMU membership on trade has usually captured the effect using the Gravity
A rapid process of income convergence or catch-up of per capita income occurred in the industrialized group of countries in the post-war years. The process was limited to the rich group of nations, to a “convergence” club, and developing countries did not
This thesis studies two related issues that have gained relevance as a consequence of several of the major currency crises of the 1990s. The first is the impact that devaluations have on investment when domestic firms have currency mismatches, i.e., debt denominated
In an attempt to capture the complexity of the economic system many economists were led to the formulation of complex nonlinear rational expectations models that in many cases can not be solved analytically. In such cases, numerical methods need to be employed…