Essays on Trade Agreements, Agricultural Commodity Prices and Unconditional Quantile Regression

Essays on Trade Agreements, Agricultural Commodity Prices and Unconditional Quantile Regression

My dissertation consists of three essays in three different areas: international trade; agricultural markets; and nonparametric econometrics. The first and third essays are theoretical papers, while the second essay is empirical. In the first essay, I developed a political economy model of trade agr...

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Main Author: Li, Na
Other Authors: Ker, Alan
Language:en
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Trade agreements
political economy
contracting cost
GARCH
volatility
value at risk
normal mixture
out-of-sample
EM algorithm
quantile regression
unconditional quantile
nonparametric regression
additive model
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10214/7741

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