To overcome the recovery challenge of nanoscale photocatalysts, great endeavor has been paid to explore effective nano-TiO2 immobilization approaches, but comprehensive comparison between these methods is still lacking. Herein, four approaches, namely impregnation-calcination, sol-gel,...

In the standard data analysis framework, data is first collected (once for all), and then data analysis is carried out. Moreover, the data-generating process is typically assumed to be exogenous. This approach is natural when the data analyst has no impact on how the data is generated. The...

This dissertation studies the US real estate investment trust (REIT) market to empirically examine several conditions of the noise trader model (NTM) — a behavioral theory that purports to explain departures of listed property share prices from their net asset values (NAV spreads). First, we...

In this paper, we study endogeneity problems in algorithmic decision-making where data and actions are interdependent. When there are endogenous covariates in a contextual multi-armed bandit model, a novel bias (self-fulfilling bias) arises because the endogeneity of the covariates spills over...