This thesis consists of three essays: Essay Nr. 1 (Kolmogorov-Wiener Filters for Finite Time-Series) describes a framework to implement optimally linear filters in the context of finite time series. The filters under consideration have the property that they minimize the mean squared error compared to some ideal hypothetical filter. It is shown in examples that three commonly used filters, the ...

This paper investigates the relative importance of confidence in public institutions to explain cross-country differences severity coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We find that a 1 SD increase (e.g., actual difference between United States and Finland) is associated with 56.3% fewer predicted deaths per million inhabitants. Confidence one most important predictors attributed COVID-...

The loss of California population to domestic migration has undergone significant changes over the last fifteen years. While traditionally the outflow has been seen as "white or middle class flight," recently a new underlying dynamic has begun to assert itself: Hispanic out-migration. Having spent some time in California, both newly-arrived and later generation Hispanics are subsequently migrat...

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on Journal blog. The irreversible losses of critical ecosystems and increasingly noticeable changes to social-ecological systems have ignited public awareness nature conservation garnered support both dampening global environmental change (Bernstein et al., 2008; Chan 2020; Leiserowitz 2019) generating more equitable policies that govern use...

This paper reviews random utility theory (RUT) based stated preference elicitation methods, discusses types of elicitation procedures and data consistent with RUT and how one can use RUT as a basis for establishing a level playing field on which to compare and test alternative elicitation procedures with one another and with behaviour in real markets. RUT provides a sound, behavioural-theoretic...