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Essays on economic development and international economics.
(2003)
The third essay, "Infrastructure as a Determinant of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows, " attempts to investigate the role of infrastructure on foreign direct investment inflows. A comprehensive physical and governance ...
The structure of cost and demand in the United States telecommunications industry.
(2002)
This dissertation provides an analysis of cost and demand structures in the U.S. telecommunications industry from 1960--1999. The research is primarily concerned with the effects of deregulation, competition and technology ...
An Analysis of State and Local Public Expenditure and Output-Maximizing Spending Optimums
(2008)
Much academic literature exists surrounding the relationship between government size and economic output at the federal level, yet only a few studies investigate such a relationship at the sub-federal level. This work ...
A psychometric analysis of an employee satisfaction index.
(2005)
This study examines responses to an employee satisfaction survey to ascertain the ability of the instrument to provide leadership with pertinent information relative to the employee attitudes at the workplace. The study ...
Two essays on international economics.
(2006)
Developing countries in the past three decades embraced capital account liberalization as a way of attracting international capital flows in hope of boosting economic growth. But the outcomes of the policy across countries ...
An empirical analysis of taxation and state economic growth.
(2003)
The problem addressed mostly in my study is the endogeneity of tax variables in the growth model. Further, the efforts to find instruments for tax variable are very crucial. I find that demographic, economic, and political ...
The effects of financial development on the income inequality, economic growth, and financial system in Taiwan.
(2002)
In the past several decades, there has been a resurging interest in the study of the interactions between economic growth, income inequality, and financial development. Since the introduction of Kuznets's (1955) hypothesis, ...
An analysis of the work and family structure incentives generated by Oklahoma's tax and transfer system.
(2001)
This study also calculates the family structure incentives present in welfare policy. Contrary to previous work, the author assumes that a couple has three potential family structures: marriage, cohabitation reported to ...
Do sales below cost laws protect small businesses?
(2006)
This paper examines whether state laws to prevent below cost sales provide protection for small businesses beyond the protection afforded by the federal antitrust laws. The paper first identifies the theoretical implications ...
Essays in auctions and information.
(2005)
This dissertation investigates the impact of information release in auctions and the change in auction organization on participant behavior. The first two essays examine how the release of information affects the aggressiveness ...