Investigation into the relations between market fundamentals and US natural gas prices is carried out in the regime-switching framework. To test the hypothesis that US natural gas market may switch between two states of market: bullish market and bearish market, a 2-state regime-switching model...

This dissertation analyzes pricing under uncertainty focusing on the U.S. airlineindustry. It sets to test theories of price dispersion driven by uncertainty in the demandby taking advantage of very detailed information about the dynamics of airlineprices and inventory levels as the flight date...

My research focuses on the reasons for banking crises and the corresponding policy rulesthat could help prevent such crises. This abstract briefly reviews the two essays in mydissertation. The first essay focuses on the optimal mechanism design of the depositinsurance system while the second...

On the basis of the previous researches and the ecological footprint theory, we use the cross-sectional data of Chinese energy consumption in 2007 to calculate the regional differences of energy consumption footprint of 30 provinces in China; by using the method of EEF calculation method, we...

In this dissertation, I examine individual decisions in occupational choice, labor supply, and health care utilization. Occupational choice decisions of female college graduates on whether to teach or not are analyzed to understand the role of fertility and relative wages using a panel...

In this dissertation, two questions concerning monetary policy under the Taylor rule have been addressed. The first question is on, under the Taylor rule, whether a central bank should be responsible for both bank supervision and monetary policy or whether the two tasks should be exercised by...

This dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the possibleasymmetric response of gasoline prices to crude oil price changes using an errorcorrection model with GARCH errors. Recent papers have looked at this issue. Some ofthese papers estimate a form of error correction model,...