Christian Baker and Richard W Evans, Economics Introduction In this project we develop a big data computational technique to solve optimal policy problems and use this method to perform an analysis of optimal sales taxation. This approach provides for the consideration of a much richer sales tax schedule than current theoretical models allow. These same […]
Can Uncorrelated Shocks Generate Aggregate Autocorrelation?: Business Cycle Persistence in a Model with Endogenous Growth and Fluctuations
Chase Coleman and Dr. Kerk Phillips, Economics My project pertained to a field of macroeconomics known as Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) modeling. DSGE modeling is where an economist builds a model based in economic theory and associates a series of mathematic equations that describe this theory with the model. The key element that makes […]
The Role of Sleep in Accounting for Racial Gaps in Educational Achievement
Jonathan Stevens and Dr. Eric R. Eide, Department of Economics Research has clearly shown that there is a gap in educational achievement between black and white middle and high school students. Thus far studies have focused primarily on family background and school inputs in explaining the achievement gap, however, the role of racial health differences […]
Quasi-maximum Likelihood Methods in Truncated Models
Patrick Turley and Dr. James B. McDonald, Department of Economics Data truncation is the source of econometric problems in many economic datasets. Truncation occurs when all observations below or above a certain threshold are systematically removed or are unavailable. For example, campaign contributions below a certain level are not usually publicly available, so any contribution […]
An Analysis Of NAFTA’s Effects On The Us And Mexican Apparel Trade
John F. Yoder and Dr. Scott Bradford, Economics Prior to the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, critics predicted NAFTA would harm the US economy. Even proponents of NAFTA admitted that free trade between the US, Canada, and Mexico would shift low-skilled jobs to Mexico where such work could be done more cheaply. […]
Does Becker Know Best?
Matthew Butler and Dr. Eric Eide, Economics Most economists contend that racial discrimination cannot exist in a “free” labor market because competition will drive any firm that discriminates to bankruptcy. This contention is presented, perhaps most famously, in Gary Becker’s book the “Economics of Discrimination.” The question of whether Becker, and all economists, knows best […]
Research Project Results: An Economic Comparison Of Two Rural Chilean Towns
Wade O. Bean and Dr. Darren Timothy, Economics, with special thanks to Delworth Gardner, Economics Rural areas in developing countries are often the breeding ground as well as the testing ground for economic theory. Two rural towns near Santiago, Chile became of particular interest to me, as they were very similar in many aspects of […]
MEDICALIZING AMERICA: AN ETIOlOGY OF U.S. HEALTH-CARE EXPENDITURES, 1948-91
Bradley L. Stoker, Department of Economics In the 1990s, runaway health care expenditures have worried U.S.!awmakers and citizens alike. According to data in the 1995 Economic Report of the President, real per-capita health care consumption (in 1994 dollars) grew an average of 4.7 percent annually between 1948 and 1991, versus a real average NNP growth […]
THE CIVIL WAR: A “POOR MAN’S FIGHT?”
David Blood, Economics Introduction The Civil War has often been described as a “rich man’s war-poor man’s fight,” suggesting that the war was waged with disproportionate human losses to the lower class. The losses suffered by the nation were huge, but the charge that such losses were disproportionately born by the poor or the immigrants […]
THE VALUE OF LIFE: A CONTINGENT VALUATION STUDY OF RISK AVOIDANCE AND UTAH COUNTY AIR POLLUTION
Christopher Michael Lee, Economics Introduction While prices established in competitive markets provide the most traditional and widely accepted valuation of goods and services, many commodities cannot be valued with price studies because no competitive market exists for those commodities. Economist have developed some methods by which valuations for non-marketed commodities can be estimated. These non-market […]
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