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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 ...
Essays on international economics.
(2001)
The second chapter, "Contagious Asian Crisis: Bank Lending, Herd behavior, and Capital Inflows, " investigates two financial channels, bank lending, and capital inflows to explain the severity of the crisis. First, crises ...
Microeconomic adjustment dynamics in United States coal mining.
(2000)
Finally, the creative destruction process can manifest itself in the growth of an establishment---as measured by changes in employment levels. That is, when sufficient information arrives through productivity signals, ...
An inquiry into the evolution of gender equality in Vietnam.
(2003)
This dissertation is a systematic and holistic examination of the progress or lack thereof of gender equality since the opening of Vietnam's markets under Doi Moi (renovation) in Vietnam. It seeks to test the hypothesis ...
Asymmetries in procurement auctions.
(2002)
This study investigates bidder behavior in road construction procurement auctions held by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) in the period January 1997 to August 2000. The first essay, "An Empirical Analysis ...
Analyzing the effects of demand uncertainty on inventory in six United States retail sectors using multivariate GARCH-M models and life and property-casualty insurance industry comparisons four years after the enactment of GLBA.
(2006)
Chapter 2. Following GLBA of 1999, previous studies recommended that banks enter the life insurance industry rather than property casualty insurance based on their prediction that the combined firm would have a less volatile ...
Analysts' earnings forecast revisions and errors in antidumping (AD) petition investigations.
(2003)
Previous assessments of the value of antidumping (AD) petitions have utilized event studies. These estimate the significance of abnormal returns to security holders of the pertinent firms at important decision dates in the ...
A comparative content analysis of the additions and amendments to the primary treaties of the European Union: Reflecting the manifestation of an evolving shared vision within the European Union.
(2006)
This research focuses on the development of the European Union and on the primary treaties that have been adopted over time and have helped define the goals and structure of the European Union. A comparative content analysis ...
Regional growth disparities in Vietnam.
(2007)
Growth inequality is a pressing issue for Vietnam, one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia. This dissertation examines potential factors contributing to the regional economic growth disparities of Vietnam ...
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 ...