Browsing OU - Dissertations by Title
Now showing items 8785-8804 of 9426
-
THREE ESSAYS ON CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC POLICIES
(2011)This study analyzes construction procurement auctions conducted by Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) focusing on mechanism design and its impact on functioning of the market. First we investigate a recent policy ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC POLICIES
(2011)This study analyzes construction procurement auctions conducted by Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) focusing on mechanism design and its impact on functioning of the market. First we investigate a recent policy ... -
Three Essays on Contract Renegotiation
(2014-05-09)This dissertation is a collection of three essays investigating renegotiation of procurement auctions in the road construction industry. The empirical analysis uses contracts procured by the Vermont Agency of Transportation ... -
Three Essays on Credit Market
(2015-05-08)My dissertation focuses primarily on credit markets from a corporate finance perspective, with a concentration on corporate bonds and security offerings. My dissertation consists of three essays. Essay One is titled ... -
Three essays on currency crises.
(2005)Chapter three empirically tests the effectiveness of interest rate defenses against speculative attacks. It is shown that previous empirical studies on this issue suffer a classic sample selection problem by restricting ... -
Three essays on development and labor economics
(2022-05-13)Chapter 1 examines the causal relationship between family size and upstream intergenerational transfers. Successful family planning policies in China not only led to a dramatic decrease in fertility rate but also raised ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Three essays on economics of language
(2020-07-30)My dissertation chapters examine the Economic returns to the proficiency on language use in different contexts. The first chapter challenges some of the standard assumptions imposed in the linear ordinary least model and ... -
Three Essays on Energy Finance
(2023-08-04)The field of energy finance is currently confronted with new challenges in the ever-evolving global landscape, characterized by dynamic changes in fundamental factors and shifting economic conditions. Understanding the ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON EXCHANGE RATE POLICY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS RECOVERY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL METHODS APPROACH
(2015-05-08)My research explores the effect of monetary systems on how quickly developing countries recover from economic crises. Existing research typically assumes that countries that do not take on a given policy are an appropriate ... -
Three Essays on Perceived Overqualification
(2020-05-08)Perceived overqualification (POQ), which refers to a situation wherein individuals possess more qualifications than those required by the job, has been commonplace in the world. Previous research on the effects of POQ on ... -
Three Essays on Pricing and Subcontracting in the U.S. Airline Industry
(2020-05-08)My dissertation chapters study carriers' pricing and subcontracting strategies in the U.S. airline industry. The first chapter is a joint paper with my advisor Dr. Qihong Liu and committee member Dr. Myongjin Kim. It focuses ... -
Three Essays on the Chinese Steel Industry
(2013)The first chapter takes an overview of the Chinese steel industry. The intermediate -
THREE ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS AND THE STRATEGY OF TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE FRAMEWORK
(2009)The main purpose of this study is to investigate the optimal strategy and the welfare effects of technology improvements in the open economy. The first essay, "Hicks Theorem: Effects of Technological Improvement in the ... -
Three Essays on the Ideal Worker
(2024-05-10)This dissertation comprises three interrelated (yet encapsulated) essays that seek to synthesize and expand knowledge regarding the ideal worker construct, as shown in Appendix A. The term “ideal worker” has origins in ... -
Three Essays on the Political Economy of Development
(2012)In Chapter 1: Research has shown that government spending can affect GDP growth rates, yet there is no comprehensive study that looks at how a country's choice of political institutions affects government spending. Using ... -
THREE ESSAYS ON THE U.S. AIRLINE INDUSTRY
(2016)My research uses cutting-edge econometric techniques to isolate and identify the impact of various changes in the U.S. airline industry, whether coming from an endogenous change in the market structure such as merger, or ...