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Two essays in financial markets development and economic growth: An empirical investigation
(2012-07)
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Two essays in applied economics
(2013-07)
I provide two exercises which attempt to arrive at consistent estimates through the utilization of various instrumental variable (IV) and general method of moments (GMM) estimation approaches. My first study asks: is social ...
Essays in regional and urban economics
(2018-05)
My dissertation contains three applied essays. The first essay examines how proximity to higher-tiered centers in the urban hierarchy affects the population growth. The massive population growth in India is not driven by ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
(2015-12)
In the first chapter, the hypothesis that workers are fully compensated in wages for differences in cost of living is tested for four groups of workers with different levels of educational attainment for the years of 2000, ...
US micropolitan area economies in the 1990's
(2012-07)
Scope and Method of the Study: This paper uses a hedonic growth model developed by Glaeser and Tobio (2008) and general dominance analysis to examine the forces contributing to the growth of micropolitan areas during the ...
Essays on family structures, education, health and well-being in old age in China
(2019-12)
The first chapter investigates the health and social impacts of a new pension system in China. China initiated the new rural pension scheme targeting the large rural population in 2009. This new scheme was claimed to be a ...
Two essays on increasing the learning effectiveness of economics education
(2010-07)
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Essays in international economics
(2011-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The first essay explores if depreciation of housing assets leads to changes in household's consumption and asset allocation that are symmetrically opposite to those in response to housing asset ...
Two essays in international macroeconomics
(2015-12)
The first essay re-examines the growth effects of stock market and banking system development for 64 Middle-income (MICs) and High-income (HICs) countries using dynamic panel GMM and traditional system GMM methods. Regression ...
Essays in risk and applied Bayesian econometric modeling
(2011-12)
My dissertation consists of three essays modeling economic agents' optimizing behaviors under various conditions, with special focus on the role of risk and Bayesian prior updating. Each essay combines in a multidisciplinary ...