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Universal Healthcare: Understanding Why America Needs Healthcare Reform And Analyzing Its Effect On Labor Markets, Quentin Lyle Healey Jan 2020

Universal Healthcare: Understanding Why America Needs Healthcare Reform And Analyzing Its Effect On Labor Markets, Quentin Lyle Healey

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Harmonizing The Disjointed: Economic Integration And Risk Sharing, Samuel Acheampong Jan 2020

Harmonizing The Disjointed: Economic Integration And Risk Sharing, Samuel Acheampong

Theses and Dissertations--Economics

This dissertation consists of three essays examining the role of risk diversification in European markets. At the economy level the first two essays seek to identify whether economic integration efforts among European countries result in sharing risks to consumption with regional neighbors, as opposed to global partners. At the firm level, the third essay seeks to understand whether managers of large companies in the United Kingdom choose less financial leverage if they are specifically compensated with more cash bonus as opposed to other forms of performance incentives.

In Essay 1, I assess the extent to which European countries diversify consumption …