Economics
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Economics .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Conspicuous Consumption and Inequality
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-27)My research is centered around understanding consumption behavior and its relationship with inequality. In Chapter 1, I study how consumption inequality in the United States has evolved over time, with a particular ... -
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, ... -
An Analysis of Optimal Agricultural Fertilizer Application Decisions in the Presence of Market and Weather Uncertainties and Nutrient Pollution
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-12)This thesis addresses the questions of how uncertain corn market and weather factors affect optimal fertilizer application decisions of the farmer and the social planner, and what factors drive the divergence between the ... -
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 ... -
A theoretical and empirical investigation into the economic relationship between forested watersheds and water treatment costs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-13)Forests around the world are believed to perform important chemical and nutrient retention functions. Chemical concentration levels have been found to be lower in surface water bodies located in areas with a higher forest ... -
The time-use of Canadian immigrant families: differences in time inputs on child raising
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)This thesis contains three chapters in cultural effects and integration experienced by parents born abroad and their Canadian-born children empirically measured using daily time diary records. Immigration policy introduced ... -
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 ... -
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'' ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Three Essays In Policy Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-20)This thesis consists of three chapters that study the effect of public policy on several economic and environmental outcomes. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of a change in tax policy affecting cars on car ... -
The Economics of Waste Clean-Up from Resource Extraction Projects: Environmental Bonds versus Strict Liability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)This thesis contains three essays spanning the fields of environmental economics and investment in a non-renewable resource under uncertainty. All essays relate to the analysis of the clean-up of hazardous waste resulting ... -
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 ... -
Commodity Prices, Stock Prices and Economic Activity in a Small Open Economy
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-10)This thesis is comprised of three papers which jointly examine the role of commodity prices as well as other asset prices in influencing the evolution of economic activity in a small-open economy (SOE). Using Canada as the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Three Essays on the Economics of Innovation as Adaptation to Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-11)This thesis consists of three chapters on technological innovation as adaptation to climate change. The first chapter adopts a non-cooperative game theory model to investigate the relationship between adaptation technology ... -
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 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 ...
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