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Essays on economic development and international economics.
(2003)
The third essay, "Infrastructure as a Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, " attempts to investigate the role of infrastructure on foreign direct investment inflows. A comprehensive physical and governance ...
The structure of cost and demand in the United States telecommunications industry.
(2002)
This dissertation provides an analysis of cost and demand structures in the U.S. telecommunications industry from 1960--1999. The research is primarily concerned with the effects of deregulation, competition and technology ...
Two essays on international economics.
(2006)
Developing countries in the past three decades embraced capital account liberalization as a way of attracting international capital flows in hope of boosting economic growth. But the outcomes of the policy across countries ...
An empirical analysis of taxation and state economic growth.
(2003)
The problem addressed mostly in my study is the endogeneity of tax variables in the growth model. Further, the efforts to find instruments for tax variable are very crucial. I find that demographic, economic, and political ...
The effects of financial development on the income inequality, economic growth, and financial system in Taiwan.
(2002)
In the past several decades, there has been a resurging interest in the study of the interactions between economic growth, income inequality, and financial development. Since the introduction of Kuznets's (1955) hypothesis, ...
Essays in auctions and information.
(2005)
This dissertation investigates the impact of information release in auctions and the change in auction organization on participant behavior. The first two essays examine how the release of information affects the aggressiveness ...
An econometric analysis of the twin deficits hypothesis.
(2007)
In the end I also extend similar analysis to five OECD countries and show that, in all five selected OECD countries, there is a fairly tenuous connection between the current account balance and the government budget balance ...
A reevaluation and extention of previous research on state and local taxes and economic development.
(2002)
This study is a reevaluation of five studies that have had an impact of the way we think about state and local taxes. This study has four phases. In the first phase, I independently replicate the original studies. In the ...
Applied papers in public policy.
(2005)
Safer hurricanes and the role of mitigation: Analyzing population growth and damage in coastal counties. The rising cost of hurricanes and other natural hazards has long been a concern to policy makers and insurance industry ...
Corporate diversification and performance: Evidence from Korea.
(2002)
This dissertation examines a sample of firms from the 70 largest Korean conglomerates, or chaebols, in order to determine the motivation behind their diversification strategies and to identify the effects of diversification ...