Browsing by Author "Demir, Firat"
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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT TREATIES, INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTES AND DOUBLE TAX TREATIES
Yayi, L. Constant (2017-12-15)Chapter 1 explores the effects of international investment treaties on institutional quality. Capital importing countries use bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as a means to attract foreign investors who see these ... -
Gendered effects of sanctions on manufacturing employment: Evidence from Iran
Demir, Firat; Tabrizy, Saleh S. (2022-08-06)International sanctions have significant economic effects with long-lasting negative consequences for human development. However, academic research on the gendered effects of sanctions is scarce. In fact, most work on ... -
The International Corporate Tax Competition: How Do Countries Interact With Each Other
Xiao, Chengrui (2014)Corporate tax rates have been significantly decreased, especially in the OECD countries in the past thirty years. In 1980, the average federal level corporate top statutory tax rate in the OECD countries was 42.35%, and ... -
Three Essays in Applied Macroeconomics and Financial Economics
Tayebi, Amir (2022-07-28)The first chapter studies the relationship between democratization and production of knowledge. Using bibliographic and patents data, we show that there is a positive and strong impact of democratization on the formation ... -
Three Essays in Political Economy of Development
Soumahoro, Souleymane (2015-05)Chapter 1 exploits the emergence of two de facto states in Côte d’Ivoire during the 2002-2010 political crisis to examine the effects of export tax reduction on the living standards of cocoa farming households. Combining ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Duan, Yi (2017-10)My dissertation chapters focus on economic development and economic growth. Chapter 1 investigates the effects of bilateral FDI flows on host countries’ productivity growth as well as on the productivity gap between host ... -
Three Essays on Economic Development in Developing Countries
Xu, Zhengang (2021-08-05)Chapter 1: This paper studies the economic impact of president Xi Jinping’s Eight Regulations of Austerity and coordinated anti-corruption campaign. Specifically, I examine the effects of this campaign on the pattern of ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH, COUNTRY HETEROGENEITY, AND REGIME-SWITCHING
Lee, Sunhyung (2018-05-11)In the first chapter, we offer a new way of examining the relationship between bilateral FDI flows and economic growth in the long-run using a unique dataset. Moreover, we provide a three-regime analysis under the ... -
Understanding the impacts of environmental, economic, and policy factors on developing economies
Ghirnikar, Tejas (2023-08-04)The first chapter of this dissertation studies the long-term effects of climate conditions during an individual's birth year on their life cycle. Drawing on data from the India Human Development Survey and monthly rainfall ...