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关键词： Coursera   microeconomics principles   MOOC   retention  

摘要： In this article, the authors describe their Massive Open Online Course in microeconomics principles. Using the Cox proportional hazard model, they analyze the high attrition rate and relate it to demographic data, finding that younger students, U.S. participants, and females are less likely to complete the course. When designing a course, it may be appropriate to put more emphasis on the committed learners, as they have the most to gain from it. The challenge is to develop a flexible course that allows students to choose their pace and yet keeps the sense of community and sufficient structure to help completion.

摘要： This thesis combines three essays in applied microeconomics. The first essay studies hospital responses to price changes and the introduction of DRG reimbursements; using a large administrative data set on all inpatient hospital admissions in Germany from 2005 to 2013, we find that hospitals respond stronger to financial incentives in areas of higher medical discretion. The second essay studies the effect of two UK compulsory schooling law changes; deriving an optimal pooled regression outcome and pooling data across 50 surveys, I show that the two reforms had no measurable impact on a large set of job market outcomes. The third essay studies the benefit of observing more customer data on optimizations of a large online retailer; predicting optimal product display ranks based on smaller data sets than the actually observed data, we estimate the effect of less data on click and order conversion rates.

关键词： 机会成本   柠檬市场   微观经济学  

摘要： 现今生活中,随着思想的日益成熟化和低龄化,恋爱似乎也成为了高中生生活中的"调味剂",有的人会凭借一时的心动和冲动开始一段恋情,其中亦不乏天长地久者,但更多的则是惨淡经营。所以我们更应该从理性的角度分析问题,毕竟恋爱和市场经济学有着千丝万缕的联系。

ISBN: (纸本)9787514162080

关键词： 微观经济学   教学改革   教学质量  

摘要： 微观经济学是目前高校经济管理类专业中普遍开设的核心课程和基础课程。由于微观经济学教学内容繁多、课程学时安排有限、一些专业概念和专业术语过于抽象和难于理解,使得实际课堂教学效果并不理想。因此,要创新教学方法,引导、培养和训练学生创新创造性思维,激发学生积极学习、主动学习的潜能;优化教学内容,将理论学习和现实问题分析紧密结合;注重课程作业设计与考评环节,以不断提高课堂教学质量。

关键词： 微观经济学   教学改革   教学效果  

摘要： 微观经济学是各大高校财经类专业的必修科目之一,这个科目要学习知识点比较多,而且实践性比较强。因此,在教学过程中,如何改进教学方式,提高教学质量是该专业老师所要思考的问题。教学的时候,不仅要让学生掌握微观经济学的相关理论知识,还要利用经济学知识去解决具体的问题。本文主要从微观经济学目前教学中存在的问题,从教学内容、教学方法几个方面进行教学改革。

关键词： face-to-face   online   teaching economics   undergraduate  

摘要： The author uses data from two Principles of Microeconomics courses to examine differences in characteristics and performance of online versus face-to-face students. The analysis indicates that even in a traditional institution, the two delivery modes may be serving students with distinctly different backgrounds and characteristics. In terms of performance, students in the online section on average scored higher on assessments given at different points in the semester. The differential remains when accounting for potential selection bias arising from course choice and when using alternate models and measures of performance.

摘要： Chapter 1 provides descriptive evidence of the large variation in spatial clustering across retail industries, and develops a game-theoretic structural model which can explain this phenomenon. The model is estimated and used to consider how zoning regulations affect retail industries differently. I find that zoning can be as much as twelve times more costly to consumers, in terms of additional travel costs, for industries in which there are low gains to search. Chapter 2 investigates the estimation of models of dynamic discrete-choice games of incomplete information, formulating the maximum-likelihood estimation exercise as a constrained optimization problem which can be solved using state-of-the-art constrained optimization solvers. Monte Carlo experiments are conducted to investigate the numerical performance and finite-sample properties of the constrained optimization approach for computing the maximum-likelihood estimator, the two-step pseudo maximum-likelihood estimator and the nested pseudo-likelihood estimator. Chapter 3 studies the manipulability of stable matching mechanisms and shows that manipulability comparisons are equivalent to preference comparisons: for any agent, a mechanism is more manipulable than another if and only if this agent prefers the latter to the former. It is also shown that generalized median stable matchings exist in many-to-many matching markets when contracts are strong substitutes and satisfy the law of aggregate demand.

摘要： This dissertation consists of three self-contained applied microeconomics essays on topics related to behavioral economics and industrial organization. Chapter 1 studies how sentiment as a result of sports event outcomes affects consumers’ tipping behavior in the presence of social norms. I formulate a model of tipping behavior that captures consumer sentiment following a reference-dependent preference framework and empirically test its relevance using the game outcomes of the NBA and the trip and tipping data on New York City taxicabs. While I find that consumers’ tipping behavior responds to unexpected wins and losses of their home team, particularly in close game outcomes, I do not find evidence for loss aversion. Coupled with the findings on default tipping, my empirical results on the asymmetric tipping responses suggest that while social norms may dominate loss aversion, affect and surprises can result in freedom on the upside of tipping. Chapter 2 utilizes a novel data source of airline entry and exit announcements and examines how the incumbent airlines adjust quality provisions as a response to their competitors’ announcements and the role of timing in such responses. I find no evidence that the incumbents engage in preemptive actions when facing probable entry and exit threats as signaled by the competitors’ announcements in either short term or long term. There is, however, evidence supporting their responses to the competitors’ realized entry or exit. My empirical findings underscore the role of timing in determining preemptive actions and suggest that previous studies may have overestimated how the incumbent airlines respond to entry threats. Chapter 3, which is collaborated with Benjamin Ho, investigates the habit formation of consumers’ thermostat setting behavior, an often implicitly made decision and yet a key determinant of home energy consumption and expenditures. We utilize a high frequency dataset on household thermostat usage and find that whil

关键词： 大学生恋爱   微观经济学   机会成本   均衡理论   信息经济学  

摘要： 当下大学生恋爱现象越来越普遍,俨然成为大学校园的一种常态,对于很多大学生来说,恋爱已经成为自己大学生活中不可或缺的一部分。然而,由大学生引发的社会问题也越来越多,大学生因情感问题而发生的自杀甚至伤害他人的恶性现象屡见不鲜,因此,用经济学尤其是微观经济学对大学生恋爱进行精确和系统地分析很有必要。从机会成本角度来看,大学生在校期间恋爱需要付出时间、精力和经济的代价,机会成本较高。用均衡理论进行分析,大学生在制定自己的择偶标准时往往把握不好需要与供给的关系,不能客观地根据自己的实际情况选择真正适合自己的追求对象。用信息经济学来分析,大学生在追求自己的理想对象时往往盲目冲动,不能全面理性地看待追求对象,恋爱后会由于获得信息不完整、不对称而导致各种问题发生。