Forecasting the Effects of Battery Recycling on the Global Cobalt Market
by Elena Cavallero Abstract This paper addresses existing concerns around a potential cobalt supply shortage driven by lithium-ion battery demand. Using econometric simultaneous equations, historical global cobalt supply and demand are estimated using data from 1981 to 2018. Based on the results of a Three-Stage Least Square estimation model of global supply and demand, this […]
Determining NBA Free Agent Salary from Player Performance
By Joshua Rosen NBA teams have the opportunity each offseason to sign free agents to alter their rosters. Using only regular season per game statistics, I examine the best method of calculating a player’s appropriate salary value based upon his contribution to a team’s regular season win percentage. I first determine which statistics most accurately predict team regular season win percentage, […]
Identifying Supply and Demand Elasticities of Iron Ore
By Zhirui Zhu This paper utilizes instrumental variables and joint estimation to construct efficiently identified estimates of supply and demand equations for the world iron ore market under the assumption of perfect competition. With annual data spanning 1960-2010, I found an upward sloping supply curve and a downward sloping demand curve. Both of the supply […]
