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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 ... -
Three Essays Unpacking the Role of Cross-Cultural Experience on Entrepreneurship
(2019)This dissertation comprises three essays probing the underlying mechanisms in the relationship between cross-cultural experience and entrepreneurship. Decades of research across multiple disciplines have provided evidence ... -
"The Three Hermits": Study of an opera by Stephen H. Paulus.
(2003)Stephen Harrison Paulus is one of today's leading American composers. A versatile and prolific composer of many genres, Paulus finds himself equally at home with works ranging from orchestral music to art songs. His current ... -
Three Papers in Applied Macro Policy
(2015-05-08)The purpose of any applied macroeconomics study should be to provide actionable information to world governments on policy questions. This dissertation addresses two policies: the first chapter addressed the effects of a ... -
Three-Dimensional Bone Tissue Engineering Strategies Using Polymeric Scaffolds
(2013)Bone tissue engineering has emerged due to a lack in effective and convenient bone graft alternatives to treat skeletal defects. This has lead to research into materials and methods with the goal of producing viable bone ... -
Three-Dimensional FEM Modeling of Geothermal Reservoir Stimulation Using Stochastic Fracture Networks and Continuum Damage Mechanics
(2014-08)Unconventional reservoirs are gaining more and more attention in recently years. Pore pressure and temperature variations in unconventional reservoirs during stimulation are of great importance in reservoir exploration and ... -
Three-dimensional finite element modeling of two-phase fluid flow in deformable naturally fractured reservoirs.
(1998)The developed theoretical formulation and numerical model are validated against several cases where the analytical solutions or other model results are readily available. The performance of the numerical code is tested ... -
Three-dimensional fully coupled geomechanical modeling of the response of Oklahoma faults to saltwater disposal
(2021-08-05)In the last decade, parts of the Central United States experienced marked increase in the number of small to moderate-sized earthquakes. Among all states, Oklahoma has experi-enced the most increase in the number of ... -
Three-dimensional fully coupled thermoporomechanical modelling of fractured reservoir rock
(2019-05-10)The coupled behaviors of fluid flow, heat transport and geomechanics in fractured porous media are studied. Emphasis is placed on the coupled hydro-mechanical processes involved in hydraulic fracture propagation, thermal ... -
THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF HYDRAULIC AND NATURAL FRACTURE INTERACTIONS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN RESERVOIR STIMULATION
(2020)The ultralow permeability of the unconventional and geothermal reservoirs can be increased for economic production by hydraulic fracturing. Natural fractures and other discontinuities are inseparable elements of unconventional ... -
Three-Dimensional Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Understanding Science Learning in the Next Generation of Science Education
(2018-08-02)This study focused on examining the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of teachers focused on transitioning to phenomena-driven, three-dimensional Learning as outlined in A Framework for K-12 Science Education (NRC, 2012) ...