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Three Essays in Investments and Corporate Finance
(2023-07-14)
Mutual funds traditionally focus their investments on the public markets. However, there has been a dramatic increase in mutual fund investment in private firms recently. The first essay examines whether mutual funds’ ...
Three Essays in Labor Economics
(2016-05-04)
The three present essays approach education, human capital signaling, and wage theories, and as such, fit squarely in the field of labor economics. Labor, as one of the three factors of production, has unique and important ...
Three Essays in Labor Economics
(2023-04-24)
I focus on the task content of work and its effects on labor market outcomes. In Chapter 1, I estimate the impact of an individual’s occupational tasks on decisions to claim disability insurance. I show that changes in the ...
Three Essays in Natural Risks and Environmental Policy Analysis
(2015-04-29)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of natural risks and environmental policy on natural resources and economic development. Chapter 1 examines the impacts of economic and flood risk ...
Three Essays in Tourism, Trade, and Economic Growth
(2009-08-13)
This dissertation consists of three chapters in tourism, trade, and economic growth. Chapter one investigates the short and long run effects of the change in the nominal exchange rate on the US tourism trade balance, ...
Three Essays on Agribusiness and Food Economics
(2018-11-16)
Energy security and food security are global challenges for people across the world. Research
examining land use for bioenergy crops is critical because it pertains to issues of food-fuel
competition. This dissertation ...
Three Essays on Agricultural Prices, Markets, and Trade
(2015-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays to address price analysis, market response as well as trade effects of the agricultural commodities, in both China and U.S. The first chapter examines the demand impacts following a ...
Three Essays on Antidumping Duties and Risk Factors Affecting International Seafood Trade
(2011-11-08)
This dissertation includes three essays to address influences of the antidumping policy, price risk, and exchange risk in the US seafood import market. In the first chapter, I attempt to evaluate the effect of trade diversion ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2011-04-29)
This dissertation consists of three essays in housing, trade, and time series econometrics. The first essay empirically investigates cointegrating relation between housing prices and economic fundamental variables in the ...
Three Essays on Applied Economics
(2019-07-23)
This dissertation is composed of three chapters examining the wage inequality in developing countries, and the effect of insurance subsidy on land use allocation.
Chapter 1 is about the distributional decomposition of ...
Three Essays on Applied International Trade Analysis
(2016-07-26)
This research which addresses factors that impact the global fish market in terms of price and trade flows is presented through three chapters. The first chapter determines the effects of income and population growth on ...
Three Essays on Asset Management and Financial Institutions
(2019-07-18)
In Chapter 1, we investigate the role of mutual fund flows in incorporating market sentiment into asset prices. We show that retail investors adjust their investments among mutual fund categories in response to changes in ...
Three Essays on Banking, Digital Finance, and Financial Inclusion.
(2021-07-12)
The first essay examines how financial literacy affects household choice as being banked only, underbanked, or unbanked. Also, the relationship between financial literacy and household use and frequency of use of different ...
Three Essays on Big Data Adoption and Its Impact on Business Value Creation
(2017-11-30)
Characterized by volume, variety and velocity (3Vs), big data has received much attention from firm executives, government officials, and academic scholars in the last few years. The emerging era of big data offers firms ...
Three Essays on CGE Modeling, Education Economics and Energy Economics
(2012-08-03)
This dissertation consists of three essays in economics on CGE modeling, education economics and energy economics.
The first essay focuses on quantifying the economic contribution of the automotive industry to ...
Three Essays on China's Agricultural Trade
(2015-07-27)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the context of the appreciation pressure that is faced by the Chinese currency (Renminbi, RMB) in recent years, using an Equilibrium Displacement Model, Chapter 1 studies ...
Three Essays on Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
(2019-06-12)
In the first chapter, we evaluate the effects of climate change on Vietnam’s rice market. Results suggest that under a low-emission scenario and without interventions, rice production would drop by as much as 18% by 2030 ...
Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Institutional Investors
(2019-07-02)
In chapter 1, we investigate the effects of activist investors on firms’ mergers and acquisitions. Using a comprehensive data set, we find that 138 out of 1,301 acquirers have activist investors comprising both hedge fund ...
Three Essays on Economics of the Parliaments
(2020-04-22)
I focus on the economics of the Turkish Parliament. In Chapter One, I estimate the impact of one additional Member of Parliament (MP) representing a province on that province’s economic growth: an extra MP increases the ...
Three Essays on Energy Economics
(2012-07-25)
This dissertation consists of three essays in applied energy economics focusing on
interfuel substitution in the electric power industry, the linkages among energy consumption,
emissions and economic growth, and the price ...