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Thomas Randolph (1605-1635) :
(1982)The difference between shows and plays, especially at the universities, and the nature of the revels for which most university drama was written before 1640, are examined here to put Randolph's shows and plays into their ... -
THREAT, MODELING AND MISCONCEPTIONS: A COORIENTATIONAL STUDY OF CITIZEN PHOTOJOURNALISTS' AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOJOURNALISTS' VALUES
(2013)With the onset of digital technologies and the active audience it allots, professional photojournalists find themselves in competition with citizen photojournalists. The ability of citizens to create and publish their own ... -
Three applied essays on Chinese households
(2020-07-30)My dissertation chapters focus on Chinese households decision making under specific government policies. The first chapter is a collaborative work with my advisor Dr. Gregory Burge. It focuses on a public healthcare program ... -
Three Dimensional Thermo-poroelastic Modeling of Fluid Injection and Induced Microseismicity in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
(2018)Interests in naturally fractured reservoirs have grown rapidly in recent years due to the increasing energy needs. Understanding the behavior of naturally fractured reservoirs would be beneficial for a variety of engineering ... -
Three Diverse Works for Trumpet by Japanese Composers: a Study of the Lives and Works of Toru Takemitsu, Marcel Kentsubitsch, and Hisato Ozawa
(2015-05-08)Currently, band is one of the most popular extracurricular activities in Japanese schools, and many people enjoy playing the trumpet not only as professionals but also as a hobby. As band players, trumpeters in Japan ... -
A Three Essay Dissertation on Social Movements and Social Media
(2014-05)Users of social media are now empowered to self-organize in new ways. In particular, participants of social movements have used social media to spread their message, organize their activities, and recruit others. For ... -
Three Essays Conceptually Exploring Implications for Artificial Intelligence in Marketing
(2023-05-12)This dissertation comprises three essays that conceptually explore the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing. AI is increasingly becoming integrated into every facet of marketing. As AI reshapes marketing ... -
Three Essays in Applied Macroeconomics and Financial Economics
(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 corporate bond liquidity
(2020-05-08)This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, using proxies for conversion cost parameters in conjunction with a special set of default free corporate bonds, I empirically establish that the term ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
(2020-05-08)This dissertation comprises of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 1) looks at the incidence of sexual harassment in U.S. S&P 500 firms, and its relationship to shareholder value. The second essay (Chapter 2) is an ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance
(2022-05-13)This dissertation comprises of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 1) examines the short- and long-term stock market reactions to the Made in China 2025 industrial policy both in China and the United States. The second ... -
Three Essays in Corporate Finance: Examining the Influence of Government Ownership and Evaluating Crude Oil Arbitrage
(2013)The aim of this dissertation is twofold: first, to evaluate how governments influence firms in which they invest (chapters one and two), and second, to examine arbitrage in the crude oil market by investigating the ... -
THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT & APPLIED MICRO
(2018-07-26)Chapter 1: China’s National Poor Counties (NPCs) program represents one of the largest anti-poverty efforts ever undertaken in a developing country. In spite of this, no causal analysis has been undertaken to examine whether ... -
Three Essays in Development and Applied Micro
(2018-05)Chapter 1: We explore what effect horizontal communication technologies, like mobile phones and the internet, had on levels of violence in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. We exploit a quasi-experiment within the civil war, where ... -
THREE ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH
(2016-05-13)My research explores important issues associated with development and growth. Chapter 1 aims to obtain an accurate estimate of China's intergenerational income mobility and to present evidence on its distributional pattern. ... -
Three Essays in Economics of Innovation and Industrial Organization
(2018-08-02)My dissertation studies economics of innovation and industrial organization. In the first chapter, I analyze the effect of geographic proximity on knowledge flows by estimating the impact of travel time on patent citation ... -
Three Essays in Financial Economics
(2019-05-10)This dissertation comprises three essays. The first reports a macro-economic application of the synthetic control method developed in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003) to assess the economic implications of the institutionalization ... -
Three Essays in Local Public Finance
(2015-05)This dissertation targets three questions relating to local public finance. Given the importance of local public finance on the average person's everyday life (consider the state of local roads and schools), understanding ... -
Three Essays in Political Economy of Development
(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 citizenship crafting
(2020-07-30)This dissertation contains three essays that develop and test a new construct, citizenship crafting. Citizenship crafting describes employee-initiated behaviors and cognitions that seek to enhance/continue or diminish/eliminate ...