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Souza, Menezes Aline Maria. "Essays on empirical political economy." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20066/.

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This thesis studies three channels through which elections and, ultimately, public policy may be interrelated: new media, electoral systems and vote motivation. The media has the fundamental role of providing political information to voters. New media such as the Internet brought about an enormous shift in the availability of political information during elections. Exploiting the timing and geographic variation in the introduction of Internet in Brazil, in the first chapter, I show that municipalities with higher Internet penetration voted more often in candidates who faced legal restrictions
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Ozdemir, Duygu. "Essays on behavioural and organizational economics." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22114/.

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This thesis consists of three self-contained experimental studies focusing on conformity behavior in the leader appointment process, self-group risk preferences of elected leaders and performance feedback mechanisms. In Chapter 1, I investigate discrimination against women in election settings and whether group dynamics undermine women’s chances to become leaders. I conduct a voting experiment which tests the effect of the candidate’s gender on voting behavior, and the role of conformity. Consistent with the predictions of a simple model, subjects tend to vote for candidates who exhibit simila
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Demetriades, Marios. "Essays in economics of science, innovation, policy and growth." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6712/.

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In this thesis we study the effect of scientific research on economic growth of the EU27 countries for 1981-2010, finding that scientific research determines national growth through patents with a ten-year lag. We also study the effect of funding on scientific research output of researchers and find that national competitive funding and other funding are positively and significantly related to research quality. National competitive funding seems to affect positively research quantity. Internal and EU funding matter only in specific scientific fields. We investigate whether past research produc
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Zilio, Federico. "Essays in the microeconometric evaluation of public policies." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21324/.

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Chapter 1 examines the health benefits of the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), an unconditional but labelled cash transfer given to elderly people above the female state pension age with the stated intent of help to deal with heating costs. We exploit the eligibility age cut-off to estimate the causal effect of the WFP on self- reports of chest infection, measured hypertension and biomarkers of infection and inflammation, such as C-reactive protein and fibrinogen. We find a robust reduction in the incidence of high levels of serum fibrinogen and some evidence of reductions in other disease markers t
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Luo, Yiyang. "Essays in family and labour economics." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19425/.

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This thesis explores family and labour economics issues in the context of different countries, the unified motive is to gain policy implication by applying diversified micro-econometric tools into different datasets. The UK has experienced the 1999 Working Family Tax Credit and the 2003 Working and Child Tax Credit reforms. The first chapter provides the first piece of evidence on the effect of single mothers being eligible to income transfer programmes on early childhood outcomes in the Britain. Using the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), various children’s production functions are used to deal
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Sibley, Elissa. "The quality of society : essays on measurement and trust." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16981/.

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Wang, Senyu. "Essays in bank capital structure." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2019. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/40939/.

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This thesis provides an in-depth discussion on banks' capital structure which has drawn very little attention from the literature. It consists of three major empirical essays. The first essay (Chapter III) reviews the major conclusions drawn from the traditional corporate finance literature that has at length examined the capital structures of non-financial firms, while compares their findings with the limited work on the leverage decisions of banking firms. It aims to provide an insight into the factors that actually govern banks' capital choices, cast doubt on whether capital requirements ar
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Arvidsson, Sara. "Essays on asymmetric information in the automobile insurance market." Doctoral thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-12279.

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Tumino, Alberto. "Essays in labour economics : school leaving, unemployment and retirement." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19661/.

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This thesis investigates empirically three topics related, respectively, to school leaving, unemployment and retirement. It consists of three independent research articles, accompanied by a general introduction and a conclusion section. Chapter 1 investigates the extent to which the demand for post-compulsory education of British 16-year-olds responds to local labour market conditions. The findings show that prevailing unemployment rates influence the schooling decisions of students from a less affluent family background, while students from better-off families tend to enrol in post-compulsory
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Herbaux, Denis. "On the economics of interpersonal relationships: three essays on social capital, social norms and social identity." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210211.

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For decades, economic theories have been mostly based on rational choices made by selfish individuals to maximize their utility, while sociology spent a lot of efforts describing the environment of individuals and explaining how this environment shapes theirs decisions. However, the last thirty years have seen many sociological concepts appear in the economic literature. For example, behavioral economics introduces things such as envy or altruism in economic theories. Other notions such as social capital, social norms, trust or community became more and more present in economic papers. The obj
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Bessudnov, Alexey. "Essays in occupational social class and status in post-Soviet Russia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f325c98a-d765-468e-8e5b-74573315d4fe.

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The aim of this thesis is to explore several aspects of occupation-based inequality in post-Soviet Russia that have previously been given little attention in the literature. The data sources for statistical analysis are the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) and the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Various statistical techniques have been used, such as regression models with random and fixed effects, nonparametric and semiparametric regression models, survival models and log-multiplicative models for contingency tables. First, the thesis looks at the validity of the app
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Joy, Mark. "Three essays on exchange-rate misalignment." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2601/.

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Theories of exchange-rate determination have generated a vast theoretical and empirical literature. This thesis adds to that body of literature by asking three questions. (i) How do policymakers respond to exchange-rate misalignment? (ii) How does misalignment affect the decisions of financial-market participants? (iii) What do exchange-rate dynamics reveal about the choices of investors in the face of currency risk? These three questions are tackled with studies that offer broad and tractable conclusions and contribute to furthering the current field of research.
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Kadow, Alexander. "Essays in European integration and economic inequalities." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3403/.

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The ongoing process of economic integration in Europe and beyond has already led to profound changes that are likely to manifest themselves further. Within Europe, formerly centrally planned economies have joined the European Union (EU) with the intention to ultimately introduce the common currency. On a more global scale, marginalised farmers in developing countries seek to become integrated in the world trading system to lift themselves out of poverty. However, issues surrounding economic inequalities are no longer exclusively confined to emerging economies. Indeed, awareness of income inequ
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Poupakis, Stavros. "Three essays in applied microeconometrics." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22028/.

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Chapter 1 develops a specification test for a single index binary outcome model in semi-parametric estimation. The semiparametric estimator examined does not rely on any distributional assumption, but it still relies on the single-index assumption. The violation of this assumption creates a source of heteroscedasticity. I extend a set of attractive LM statistics, constructed using auxiliary regressions for the case of logit and probit models, to the semiparametric environment. I derive its asymptotic distribution and show that is has well-behaved finite properties in a Monte Carlo experiment.
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Kang, Young-Kwan. "Essays on monetary and macro-prudential policy in a DSGE model with banking sector." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/63881/.

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The thesis is composed of three chapters which analyze the monetary and macro-prudential policy using a New Keynesian DSGE model with the banking sector. The first chapter evaluates the effectiveness of time-varying macro-prudential tools and their interaction with monetary policy using the model framework of Gertler and Karadi (2011) which emphasizes the role of bank capital and endogenous leverage constraint due to the moral hazard problem. We consider the following three types of countercyclical macro-prudential tools: (i) capital requirements (CAR), (ii) deposit-based reserve requirements
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David, Quentin. "Five essays on human and social capital." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210298.

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Chapter 1: The Determinants of the Production of Research by US Universities<p>Chapter 2: Investment in Vocational and General Human Capital: A Theoretical Approach<p>Chapter 3: Urban Migrations and the Labor Market<p>Chapter 4: Local social capital and geographical mobility<p>Chapter 5: Social Supervision and Electoral Stability on the Geographical Scale in Belgium<br>Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Melissas, Nicolas. "Essays on herding, strategic waiting and cheaptalk." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211821.

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Gotthard, Real Alexander. "Essays in Behavioral Economics." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429818327.

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Reggio, Ojeda Iliana Gabriela. "Essays in applied econometrics." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1693063571&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Geraci, Andrea. "Three essays in microeconometric methods and applications." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19599/.

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This thesis comprises three essays. The first two make use of individual-level data on British workers from the British Household Panel Survey to study different aspects of nonstandard employment. The first essay, co-authored with Mark Bryan, presents estimates of the implicit monetary value that workers attach to non-standard work. We employ and compare two alternative methods to measure workers’ willingness to pay for four non-standard working arrangements: flexitime, part-time, night work, and rotating shifts. The first method is based on job-to-job transitions within a job search framework
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Nyarko, Samuel Anokye. "Essays on the Performance, Subsidization and Internationalization of Social Enterprises." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/304819.

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Social enterprises are hybrid organizations that tackle societal challenges by using conventional business models. Being hybrid organizations means that social enterprises pursue dual objectives: social (developmental) and financial. By taking performance, subsidization and internationalization perspectives, this thesis contributes to understanding the hybridity of social enterprises and how this hybridity drives their general operations and key decisions such as foreign market selection and targeting strategy.<br>Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPubl
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Rialland, P. C. R. P. "Three essays in applied microeconomics." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23688/.

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This thesis focuses on three vulnerable groups in Europe that have recently been highlighted both in media and in the economics literature; and that are policy priorities. Chapter 1 is a joint work with Giovanni Mastrobuoni which focuses on prisoners and peer effects in prison. Studies that estimate criminal peer effects need to define the reference group. Researchers usually use the amount of time inmates overlap in prison, sometimes in combination with nationality to define such groups. Yet, there is often little discussion about such assumptions, which could potentially have important effec
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Edet, Samuel Asuquo. "Essays on Innovation Networks and Global Cities." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2022. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/348/1/Edet_phdthesis.pdf.

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In a competitive economy, technological innovation is a core element of economic growth and development, and its accumulation in a rapidly changing technological environment is key to adaptation. This thesis investigates how cities, particularly global cities can develop new technological capabilities to enter new technological fields and become competitive in new technological areas. First, a new geo-referenced patent database is developed to overcome some limitations of the existing international patent repository to make an international comparison of cities feasible. The new database provi
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Mališauskaitė, Gintarė. "East versus West : did Communist regimes matter in the long-run? : essays on the comparative economics of the former Eastern Bloc countries." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/71525/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the strand of research regarding the effects of communist regimes in former Eastern Bloc. We explored the areas that were likely to be affected at the time of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and to test if there are any signs of the impact extending to long-term. This is especially important due to the data scarcity and heavy censorship during the period of the Soviet Union, which does not allow to reliably estimate the contemporaneous effects of the regime. Therefore, the main research questions are: • Did communist regime education polic
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Pinheiro, De Matos Luis. "Essays on fiscal federalism." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/119783/.

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This thesis investigates the effects of pressures brought by increasing capital mobility and interjurisdictional fiscal competition to fiscal policy, focusing particularly on the European Union and the analysis of policy reforms that can be adopted in such contexts. Firstly, the relationship between tax competition and economic growth is re-assessed. In a race to attract mobile capital, jurisdictions compete to offer the highest after-tax rates of return. Governments are driven into the provision of higher levels of productive public goods, and shift their tax structures, towards the taxation
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Tamanni, Luqyan. "Empirical essays on sustainability, portfolio risk, and outreach of Islamic microfinance institutions." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8489/.

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Islamic microfinance is a growing sector that is expected to provide a long-term solution to poverty in the Muslim world, home to more than 600 million poor people. The role of microfinance institutions in poverty alleviation is still debatable, however established literature provides assurance that microfinance does contribute to the development of financial sector and reduction of poverty in developing countries. Nonetheless, the rise of competition in the microfinance sector has forced many microfinance institutions to resort to commercial funding and lending activities, which according to
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Ezer, Mehmet Onur. "Essays in Macroeconomic and Macroprudential Policies." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108089.

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Thesis advisor: Peter Ireland<br>Thesis advisor: Christopher Baum<br>In this dissertation, I focus on macroeconomic and macroprudential policies. In Chapter 1, I study the effectiveness of macroprudential policy tools on bank risk. The findings show that although macroprudential policy tools can stabilize the financial system, under certain conditions, they might have perverse effects. In Chapter 2, I examine monetary aggregates, and show that once measured correctly, they can be useful in gauging the stance of monetary policy. In Chapter 3, by studying the deter- minants of sovereign debt cri
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Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa. "Essays on urban and spatial economics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/455/.

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This thesis is composed of four chapters. The first one investigates the impact of immigration on housing markets. The rest study the effects of transport policy on economic outcomes. Chapter 1 provides causal estimates of the effects of an increase of foreign-born population on house prices. I use data for the Spanish provinces between 2001 and 2010. In order to infer causality I construct an instrument based on past location patterns by immigrant nationality. I find positive effects of the increase in the share of foreign-born population on both rental and purchase prices. The estimated elas
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Genard, Jean Louis. "Essai de réexamen de la sociologie de la morale." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213178.

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Anderson, Chingun. "Essays on institutions, ethnic divisions and poverty." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19954/.

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What is the relationship between ethnic heterogeneity and the ability of the poor to organize and influence democratic governments to improve their welfare? Political scientists and economists have argued that democracies are superior to non-democracies for improving poverty outcomes because they are advantaged with institutional mechanisms such as universal suffrage and majority rule. Yet, there are numerous cases where democracy has done little to help the poor. Through a series of essays, I examine the effects of ethnic heterogeneity of the poor on the effect of democracy and oil revenue on
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Wong, Kai Tim (Douglas). "Essays on international stock markets and real exchange rate dynamics." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2019. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41051/.

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This thesis aims to examine the long-run determinants of the real exchange rate, and to identify the sources of real exchange rate and relative stock price short-run fluctuations. In chapter 1, I incorporate the relative stock prices into the Dornbusch's Mundell-Fleming Real Exchange Rate Model in order to investigate the long-run relationship between the money, goods and stock markets. In chapter 2, I build on the work of Dornbusch (1976), Clarida and Gali (1994), Malliaropulos (1998) and Hoffmann and MacDonald (2000) in order to form the sticky-price equilibrium solution for identifying the
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She, Powen. "Essays on career mobility in the UK labour market." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19955/.

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This thesis consists of three substantial chapters on topics related to occupational and industrial mobility. Using quarterly data of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from 1992 to 2013, Chapter 2 documents the mobility across occupations and industries (referred to as career change). The findings suggest that occupational and industrial mobility are surprisingly high. Both occupational and industrial mobility are procyclical. The majority of instances of career change are associated with wage growth. During an expansion, a career changer's wage grows more than someone who stays in their career. H
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Liu, Yanxu. "Three Essays on the Economics of Controlling Invasive Species." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2190.

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This dissertation addresses issues pertinent to the control of an invasive species, issues that pertain both to a species’ introduction at a country’s international border and its spread within the country’s border. In the first essay, tariffs and inspections are examined as a joint border control mechanism. In a deterministic setting, where the invasive species level is functionally related to a foreign (i.e., exporting) country’s shipment size, a traditional tariff can be optimal for the home (i.e., importing) country in the short run, but distorts the entry condition for foreign firms and r
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Huang, Jilei. "Essays on estimating and calibrating the effects of macroeconomic policy over the business cycle." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2495/.

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This thesis consists of three chapters on post-reform Chinese business cycles and alternative methods for solving non-linear rational expectations models. Using quarterly data for the period 1980-2009, Chapter 1 examines the effects of aggregate demand and supply shocks on aggregate fluctuations in China. It further decomposes demand shocks into money supply, money demand and fiscal shocks as in the IS-LM-PC model by applying both long- and short-run restrictions in the context of the structural VAR proposed by Galí (1992). The results show that the estimated impulse responses, in terms of the
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Goss, Line Valerie. "Two Essays in Financial Economics." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1920.

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Chapter 1 of this study investigates the link between a firm’s capital structure and their industry competitive behavior. Given the competitive behavior in certain markets, Cournot or Bertrand, we investigate if there are any inborn characteristics of these markets’ competitive behavior that would create an incentive for Cournot firms to have a different strategic debt level than Bertrand firms. Related theories argue that any industry’s competitive behavior, whether it is Bertrand or Cournot would typically consist of a certain type of debt and pursue a certain type of competitive strategy, b
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Pourroy, Marc. "Essays in monetary politic in emerging economies." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00984303.

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This PhD dissertation is made of four papers on central banking in inflation-targeting emerging economies. The first part of the dissertation is dedicated to two empirical works, based on the experiences of the 19 emerging economies that have adopted an inflation-targeting framework. I examine what exchange rate arrangement these economies are implementing together with the inflation targeting strategy, and what can explain their choice. ln the first chapter, I propose a new method to build up taxonomies of exchange-rate regimes. My approach is based on Gaussian mixture estimates. ln the secon
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Dieye, Rokhaya. "Three essays on social interactions and education : theory and application." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26041.

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L’objectif principal de cette thèse est de proposer des méthodes d’identification des effets qui découlent des interactions sociales dans le contexte éducatif. La pertinence de ma recherche se trouve à trois niveaux : 1) elle nous aide à mieux mesurer l’impact du réseau social sur les comportements individuels ; 2) elle améliore notre compréhension de phénomènes sociaux négatifs tels que l’obésité ou le décrochage scolaire ; 3) elle permet de proposer des politiques publiques adaptées, qui permettent d’exploiter au mieux les effets qui découlent de ces interactions sociales en milieu scolaire.
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Pruschak, Gernot Verfasser], Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] [Hopp, and Frank T. [Akademischer Betreuer] Piller. "Ethical and responsible behavior in applied empirical research: four essays on academic practices in the social sciences / Gernot Pruschak ; Christian Hopp, Frank Thomas Piller." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1231911751/34.

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Adams, Abigail. "The nonparametric approach to demand analysis : essays in revealed preference theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d2a548aa-e720-4975-802b-e55d08dec9e6.

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This thesis comprises three principal essays, each of which provides a contribution to the literature on the nonparametric approach to demand analysis. In each essay, I develop novel techniques that follow in the revealed preference tradition, and apply them to tackle a series of questions that concern the mechanisms underlying consumer spending decisions. Each technique developed is tightly linked to a particular nonparametric theory of choice behaviour and is explicitly designed for use with a finite set of observations. My work draws heavily upon results from finite mathematics, into which
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Noury, Abdul Ghafar. "Essays on Economics of political Behavior." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211488.

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Tacharoen, Kitjawat. "Essays on effects of skill mix on productivity and determinants of foreign ownership in developing countries." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/563/.

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The first chapter is titled "Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China”. Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This chapter develops a model to explain firm labour demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions of workers and wages. Firm technologies which best match regional labour markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and
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Goldsmith, Glenn Fraser. "Essays in the economics of subjective well-being." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0106206d-80b7-45f9-9850-cd8e7d5c0e97.

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This thesis explores three major issues in the burgeoning empirical literature on the determinants of subjective well-being (SWB). While economic theory assumes that it is current consumption that matters to SWB, empirical work has focused almost exclusively on the effect of income. In Part 1, we use household panel data from Russia and Britain to show that neither the standard theoretical account, nor the standard empirical practice may be adequate. Consumption, income, and wealth each contribute separately to SWB, in particular via perceptions of status and anticipation of the future; and om
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Ibhagui, Oyakhilome Wallace. "Essays in empirical international finance and growth : a closer look at Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/66699/.

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The thesis, comprising three chapters in empirical international finance and growth, with a focus on SubSaharan Africa, examines the growth impact of foreign direct investment in the first chapter, the existence of a transfer problem and the effects of financial liberalisation on real exchange rate in the second chapter, and whether monetary fundamentals explain nominal exchange rate movements in SSA in ways consistent with the monetary model of exchange rate in the third chapter. The contribution of the thesis to knowledge is mainly empirical - it consists of using a broad range of existing e
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Brendon, Charles Frederick. "Essays in normative macroeconomics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f4531e94-54bf-43f6-843f-5d37054476f1.

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This thesis is divided into two main parts. The first provides a novel analysis of dynamic optimal taxation under the assumption that individuals in an economy have ‘hidden’ idiosyncratic productivity levels. Specifically, it shows how to derive a complete set of optimality conditions characterising the solution to a problem of this kind. The method relies on constructing perturbations to the consumption-output allocations of agents in a manner that preserves all relevant incentive compatibility restrictions. We are able to use it to generalise the ‘inverse Euler condition’ to cases in which p
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Popa, Nicoleta-Laura. "Romanian teachers of the gifted : empathy and accuracy in perceiving students' characteristics : a scientific essay in social sciences /." Nijmegen : Quickprint, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40218305h.

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Morando, Greta. "Essays on the economics of education and labour." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19999/.

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Chapter 1 provides the first evaluation of a recent educational reform in England which reduced the content of the mathematics module studied by pupils aged 16-18. Using the National Pupil Database we look at the reform's impact on the probability that secondary school students will choose mathematics, and their attainment. We use information on previous academic achievement and other individual characteristics to understand which students have been mostly affected. We show that this reform sheds new light on one of the most important questions in education research: why women are less represe
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Andersson, Mats. "Empirical Essays on Railway Infrastructure Costs in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4398.

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Baghaei, Lakeh Arash. "Essays on Utilizing Data Analytics and Dynamic Modeling to Inform Complex Science and Innovation Policies." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/95009.

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In many ways, science represents a complex system which involves technical, social, and economic aspects. An analysis of such a system requires employing and combining different methodological perspectives and incorporation of different sources of data. In this dissertation, we use a variety of methods to analyze large sets of data in order to examine the effects of various domestic and institutional factors on scientific activities. First, we evaluate how the contributions of behavioral and social sciences to studies of health have evolved over time. We use data analytics to conduct a textual
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Kang, Lili. "Essays on human capital and productivity analysis in China." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3241/.

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This thesis examines the Chinese economy by focusing on the specialized human capital themes of production processes, regional productivity disparities and convergence, cost competitiveness comparisons and private returns to education from 1978 to 2009. Chapter 2 reviews the growth accounting model and measurement methods of its components such as capital services, labour inputs, labour composition index and Total Factor Productivity index. China’s spectacular economic growth is from unequal performance of provinces and regions. Thus, chapter 3 examines effects of the physical and human capita
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Berlin, Noemi. "Four essays on the psychological determinants of risk-taking, education and economic performance." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00984291.

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This thesis contributes to the experimental literature on the role played by psychological factors in educational choices implying risk-taking and performance. Using psychological insights to study economic behaviors has become a discipline on its own. Its main goal is to explain most of the mechanisms involved in the process of decision making process. The reason for introducing concepts of psychology into economic theory is mainly because "classic" economic models are often questioned on the decision-making process they propose. Even though these models are a first step for the elaboration o
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