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This dissertation introduces three novel approaches for the econometric evaluation of heterogeneous treatment effects. The proposed methods consider the effects of a binary treatment on different characteristics of the outcome distribution.Section 1 proposes an estimation method for various...
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This dissertaion is comprised of two essays on econometric evaluation of models of commodity futures prices. The first essay develops a frequency- domain volatility bound approach that can be used to evaluate possibly mis-specified models. The proposed method allows us to detect model failures...
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depend on robustness properties of the solution concepts adopted. Chapter 1 discusses recent results in this research area … attention in the literature (namely, the distinction between knowledge and certainty), raising novel questions of robustness …
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essential. The robustness of such inferences is dependent on sample size. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of …
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This dissertation studies models for locating facilities in time varying demandenvironments. We describe the characteristics of the time varying demand that motivatethe analysis of our location models in terms of total demand and the changein value and location of the demand of each customer....
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the policy that maximizes robustness to unstructured uncertainty. …
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robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance against extreme outcomes, ordinarily is not the only desideratum in … the risk of a successful attack by inspecting more vessels, we show that robustness against the failure to guarantee a … minimum level of expected utility might not be monotonic. Robustness modeling based on expected utility and incorporating …
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reveal about design robustness is demonstrated, and practical limitations to its use are revealed. Second, a new mathematical … technique is presented that expands capabilities for analyzing robustness to multiple info-gap uncertainties simultaneously. The …
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A methodology for the conceptual design phase risk assessment of an aerospace system was proposed. The method was designed to examine political, social, and economic risk over a systems lifecycle through the use of future scenarios to bound uncertainty. A decision support framework was developed...
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Often in the early stages of the engineering design process, a decision maker lacks the information needed to represent uncertainty in the input parameters of a performance model. In one particular form of severely deficient information, a nominal estimate is available for an input parameter,...
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