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The Economics of Water Conservation Regulations in Mining: An Application to Alberta's Lower Athabasca River Region
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-21)Large demands for water by the mining industry are of increasing concern around the world and access to water is seen as a significant constraint on future mine development. Citizens, environmental groups and other ... -
The Effect of Technological Innovations on Economic Activity
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-05)In this PHD dissertation, the nature of technological shocks and their effect on economic activity are examined. The first chapter is dedicated to the analysis of general purpose technologies (GPTs) and their identification ... -
Empirical Essays in Water and Electricity Use
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating the impacts of educational attainment and average income at the community level on water consumption, the effects of different sources of energy on wholesale ... -
Essays in Consumer Debt, Personal Saving Rate, and Household Insolvency in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)This thesis consists of three essays attempting to determine the key determinants of spending-saving behaviour and financial stability of Canadian households from both micro and macro economics. In the first chapter, we ... -
Essays in Earnings, Academic Productivity, and School Competition
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating current issues in earnings, academic productivity, and school competition. The first chapter, coauthored with Anindya Sen, looks at returns to post-secondary ... -
Essays in Risk Management for Crude Oil Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)This thesis consists of three essays on risk management in crude oil markets. In the first essay, the valuation of an oil sands project is studied using real options approach. Oil sands production consumes substantial ... -
Essays in Wealth Effect, Family Structure, and Female Labour Supply
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-27)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating topics in family structure, household wealth, and married women's labour decisions using Canadian data. The twentieth century has seen significant changes ... -
Essays on Empirical likelihood for Heaviness Estimation, Outlier Detection and Clustering
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-24)Empirical likelihood (EL) is a non-parametric likelihood method of inference. There are a large number of studies about the extensions and applications of EL. Most studies discuss the EL ratio for constructing confidence ... -
Essays on Innovation, Patents, and Econometrics
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-03)This thesis investigates the impact of fragmentation in the ownership of complementary patents or patent thickets on firms' market value. This question is motivated by the increase in the patent ownership fragmentation ... -
Essays on Portfolio Selection, Continuous-time Analysis, and Market Incompleteness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-05)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating topics in portfolio selection, continuous-time analysis, and market incompleteness. The two opposing investment strategies, diversification and concentration, ... -
Female Labour Supply with Time Constraints
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)The Italian labour market seems unable to allocate a significant fraction of the working age population efficiently. The gap between the employment rate in Italy and in the other developed economies is foremost attributable ... -
The housing market impacts of wastewater injection induced seismicity risk
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Using data from a county severely affected by the increased seismicity associated with injection wells since 2009 in Oklahoma, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from nearby shale oil and gas development ... -
The Labour Market Integration of Immigration and Their Role on Innovation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-20)This thesis contains three chapters evaluating the role of labour market skills in determining immigrants' labour market integration and Canada's innovation rate. In Chapter 1, I estimate how the impact of entry economic ... -
Modelling the dynamics of commodity prices for investment decisions under uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-27)This thesis consists of three essays on commodity-linked investment decisions under uncertainty. Specifically, the first essay investigates whether a regime switching model of stochastic lumber prices is a better model for ... -
Monetary Policy Analysis and its Contemporary Challenges
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-26)This thesis contains three essays on the empirical analysis of monetary policy. While the subjects are diverse, they all share the goal of providing for a thorough, data-driven analysis of critical policy developments ... -
On Functional Data Analysis: Methodologies and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-04)In economic analyses, the variables of interest are often functions defined on continua such as time or space, though we may only have access to discrete observations -- such type of variables are said to be ``functional'' ... -
Plastic Pollution in the Canadian Great Lakes: Drivers, Barriers and Policy Recommendations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)Plastic pollution is detrimental to the economy, the environment and human health. More research have been conducted on marine plastic pollution than on freshwater plastic pollution, even though rivers and lakes are ... -
Psychological Prices at Retail Gasoline Stations: The Policies of 0-, 5-, and 9-Ending Prices
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-12)Psychological prices are known to impact consumer behaviour and to depend on retailers’ characteristics. Less understood is last digit pricing, especially in the context of retail gasoline stations. We study price endings ... -
The Relative Performance of International Students and Their Academic Program Choices
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new immigrants. In Chapter 1, we examine the relative course grades of international undergraduate students in an ... -
The Role of Institutions on R&D, FDI, and Economic Growth
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)This thesis broadly consists of three essays examining the impact of institutions on firm R&D, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) activity, and economic growth. The focus of each paper is unique in its contribution. The first ...