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Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF CUSTOMER BASELINE (CBL) CALCULATION ON PEAK TIME REBATE PROGRAM
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Power resources
Description: In this thesis, the impact of customer baseline (CBL) accuracy on the Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program is investigated. In a hypothetical case, PTR is offered to the residential customers and its economic performance is evaluated with respect to the...

Title: Analysis of tanking in the National Football League
Author: Nance, William
Date Created: 2016
Description: Sports economics literature has recently explored the idea that there is an incentive to intentionally lose games in some professional sports leagues. This process is known as "tanking" and is largely related to a league’s amateur draft policies. ...

Title: Analysis of tanking in the National Football League
Author: Nance, William
Date Created: 2016
Description: Sports economics literature has recently explored the idea that there is an incentive to intentionally lose games in some professional sports leagues. This process is known as "tanking" and is largely related to a league’s amateur draft policies. ...

Title: CONCEALED CARRY LAWS AND THEIR EFFECT ON MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
Author: Bowles, Nicholas
Date Created: 2016
Description: Mass shootings frequently provoke discussion around the adequacy of firearm legislation, and what can be done to prevent future attacks. Previous literature examining the relationship between concealed handgun laws and mass shootings provides cont...

Title: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF MACRO ECONOMIC VARIABLES ON INFLATION AND FORECASTING INFLATION
Author: Pandey, Rachana
Date Created: 2016
Description: The objective of the current study is to empirically determine whether certain macroeconomic variables play a significant role in influencing inflation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and also to forecast inflation. The study...

Title: EXCHANGE RATE, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FDI: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Author: Wu, Linxi
Date Created: 2016
Description: In this paper we investigate the dynamic relationships among international trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate of China. The analysis is based on a vector auto-regression (VAR) model using historical data. The empirical res...

Title: EXCHANGE RATE, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FDI: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
Author: Wu, Linxi
Date Created: 2016
Description: In this paper we investigate the dynamic relationships among international trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate of China. The analysis is based on a vector auto-regression (VAR) model using historical data. The empirical res...

Title: Economic Implications of Decriminalization
Author: Viars, Shanyn
Date Created: 2016
Description: Contrary to federal government policy in the United States toward illegal drug use, ten states enacted legislation to decriminalize marijuana during the 1970’s. The War on Drugs campaign of the 1980’s-1990’s halted state marijuana reform policy un...

Title: FBS CONFERENCE SIZE AND ITS EFFECT ON PROFITABILITY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Author: Moore, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Description: Previous studies have explored the dynamic between member schools and the conferences to which they belong, particularly regarding optimal alignment and profit maximization. Conference members have to decide whether switching is worthwhile, and as...

Title: FBS CONFERENCE SIZE AND ITS EFFECT ON PROFITABILITY IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Author: Moore, Christopher
Date Created: 2016
Description: Previous studies have explored the dynamic between member schools and the conferences to which they belong, particularly regarding optimal alignment and profit maximization. Conference members have to decide whether switching is worthwhile, and as...

Title: GAS PRICES, CLIMATE, AND THE POWERBALL JACKPOT: IMPACTS ON U.S. CONVENIENCE STORE NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES
Author: McNeill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Description: This paper examines the effects that gasoline prices, climatic conditions, and the Powerball jackpot size have on weekly scanned-data results of NA beverage sales (unit and dollar sales) at U.S. convenience stores from 2010-2016:Q1. The results in...

Title: GAS PRICES, CLIMATE, AND THE POWERBALL JACKPOT: IMPACTS ON U.S. CONVENIENCE STORE NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SALES
Author: McNeill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Description: This paper examines the effects that gasoline prices, climatic conditions, and the Powerball jackpot size have on weekly scanned-data results of NA beverage sales (unit and dollar sales) at U.S. convenience stores from 2010-2016:Q1. The results in...

Title: Hedonic Price Valuation of Vintage Ferraris
Author: Spadaro, Paul
Date Created: 2016
Description: This paper provides an econometric analysis of vintage Ferrari sales from automobile auctions between July 2002 and January 2016. Although Enzo Ferrari made race cars earlier, the first Ferrari badged car was produced in 1947. The "Enzo" era, was ...

Title: Incentivizing Farmland and Investments: Expanding on an Evaluation of Portfolio Performance When Incorporating Agricultural Investments
Author: Morrill, Matthew
Date Created: 2016
Description: ABSTRACTMATTHEW MORRILL. Incentivizing farmland investments: expanding on an evaluation of portfolio performance when incorporating agricultural investments. (Under the direction of DR. CRAIG DEPKEN)Farmland investments have shown to have remarkab...

Title: Income volatility and county size: a study of North Carolina county population size and per capita personal income volatility
Author: Carman, Allison
Date Created: 2016
Description: This investigates the relationship between North Carolina counties and patterns in per capita personal income volatility over various samples ranging from 1969 to 2014. The overarching hypothesis is that people in smaller counties experience incre...

Title: Introducing Non-Linearities and Interaction Terms in a Conditional Asset Pricing Model
Author: Rask, Kristoffer
Date Created: 2016
Description: Throughout history of the conditional asset pricing literature the goal has been to find the best possible model to explain what determines a firm’s expected stock return. In Dickson (2015) the variables that prove to be best at explaining a firm’...

Title: Introducing Non-Linearities and Interaction Terms in a Conditional Asset Pricing Model
Author: Rask, Kristoffer
Date Created: 2016
Description: Throughout history of the conditional asset pricing literature the goal has been to find the best possible model to explain what determines a firm’s expected stock return. In Dickson (2015) the variables that prove to be best at explaining a firm’...

Title: Peer Effects In the Professional Golf Association
Author: Couch, Preston
Date Created: 2016
Description: In this analysis I will determine the execution of professional golfers in the final two rounds of a four round tournament. This paper investigates if a player’s performance influences another player’s performance using tee shots on par three hole...