Over 400 cities around the world have deployed or have plans to deploy a bike sharing
system. However, the factors that drive their usage and the amount of rebalancing they …

We propose in this paper a spatial random coefficients flexible multivariate count model to
examine, at the spatial level of a census tract, the number of pedestrian injuries by injury …

This paper proposes a new spatial generalized ordered response model with skew-normal
kernel error terms and an associated estimation method. It contributes to the spatial analysis …

This paper adopts a spatial probit approach to explain interaction effects among cross‐
sectional units when the dependent variable takes the form of a binary response variable …

Historically, transportation planning relied on aggregate, trip-based procedures, namely,
four-step modeling, for modeling travel demand. The aggregate approaches served well …

In the recent years, multiple discrete continuous (MDC) models have emerged as a popular
framework to simultaneously model the choice of multiple goods (that are imperfect …

This thesis comprises three essays on monetary and international economics. The first
essay studies two issues of countries' exchange rate regime (ERR) choices: why countries …