feeling of dependence on, and calculative commitment to, the service provider. The mediation mechanisms also imply that sunk … costs are more related to dependence or calculative commitment than repurchase intentions, and that dependence or …

previous literature by using copulas to test for dependence in the labor allocation decisions of the operator and spouse …

pattern to change over time without the filtering process injecting a spurious pattern of noise into the filtered series. We … embedded in the return series. The variance is decomposed into the information arrival component and the noise factor component …. This decomposition methodology differs from previous studies in that both the informational variance and the noise variance …

. This dissertation contributes to the existing body of work by focusing on issues related to parameter identification.In the … used to determine the identifiability, and estimate the parameters of such models. I derive conditions for identification … models, as well as for detecting identification problems.In the third essay I develop a methodology for analyzing …

, such as a regression function, and treating it as a conditional expectation is central to its identification and estimation … identification related properties of this model when the unknown function mu* belongs to a linear space. We also investigate … underidentification of mu* along with the identification of its linear functionals. Several examples are provided in order to develop …

equivalence, partial and weak identification problems are widespread and they lead to biased estimates, unreliable t … identification and study how small samples interact with parameters and shock identification. We provide diagnostics and tests to … detect identification failures and apply them to a state-of-the-art model …