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U.S. Perceptions Of Economic Mobility Since The Enactment Of Nafta And Their Impact On American Politics And Society, Jairemy Quinton Edwards

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

In this study, I examine how perceptions of NAFTA developed over 20 years since its enactment, measured as perceived economic mobility in 2016, have affected more recent public perceptions leading to increased, controversial tendencies towards nationalism, protectionism, and pessimism about the future of the U.S. economy. I then assess whether and how such perceptions in turn may have affected voter perceptions about Donald Trump, setting the stage for his 2016 election victory. Therein, I have found that among U.S. voters in 2016, those with perceptions of reduced economic mobility since the enactment of NAFTA were significantly more likely to have …

Stock Recommendations In China: Buyer Beware, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

Research analysts have incentives to issue positive recommendations; social ties with fund managers exert considerable influence

The World In 2019, Vaibhav Sahgal

Library Events

The speaker shared the key themes that will shape the world in 2019. Some of the themes include the economics of artificial intelligence (AI), central macroeconomics forecast drivers, country outlooks of important countries in Asia / ASEAN region and major global forecast risk in 2019.

Objetivos De Desarrollo Del Milenio: Éxito Y Desarrollo En El Departamento De Santander, 2000-2015, Juan Sebastián Hoyos García, Brayan Eduardo Mogollón Moncada

Negocios y Relaciones Internacionales

Los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (ODM) son ocho específicos que los Estados Miembros de las Naciones Unidas se comprometieron a cumplir para el año 2015. El presente trabajo de investigación analiza de qué manera con los ODM, el departamento de Santander pudo posicionarse como un caso de éxito a nivel nacional en términos de ejecución y alcance en un período de tiempo entre el 2000-2015. Para ello se aplicó una metodología mixta que incluye el análisis de estadísticas oficiales y el análisis documental. Evidenciando los factores que le permitieron a este departamento posicionarse como sobresaliente en el cumplimiento de …

La Organización Panamericana De La Salud Y Sus Mecanismos De Promoción De Captación De Sangre En Colombia Y Estados Unidos Durante El Periodo 2007-2019, Danna Isabel Espitia Peláez, Jorge Enrique Jiménez Franco

Negocios y Relaciones Internacionales

La Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) es la encargada de proponer los procesos de captación y transfusión de sangre en América, esto, con la finalidad de suplir las necesidades que cada país demanda en cuanto al suministro de sangre nacional. Así, en el caso de Colombia, la OPS trabaja de la mano con el Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), para impulsar la política nacional de sangre la cual establece los lineamientos a seguir en términos de la hemovigilancia. Sin embargo, los modelos de captación utilizados no cumplen el objetivo de suministro totalmente, así que ha sido necesario apelar al …

Influencia Del Proyecto De Ampliación Del Canal En El Pib Panameño: Un Análisis Entre 2016 Y 2018, John Jairo Quintero Oquendo, Julián David Rodríguez Sánchez

Negocios y Relaciones Internacionales

En esta investigación se pretende analizar la contribución hecha por la construcción del tercer juego de esclusas del Canal de Panamá, proyecto inaugurado en 2016, al Producto Interno Bruto de ese país. Para tal fin, se parte de la hipótesis de que la ampliación tiene un impacto positivo en la economía panameña debido a que la actividad canalera es la de más peso dentro de la rama económica Transportes, Storage and Comunicaciones, la cual ha sido, durante los últimos años, una de las más relevantes en la producción panameña según cifras oficiales. Mediante una metodología mixta, se describe el funcionamiento …

Factores Políticos Y Económicos Que Han Influido En El Desarrollo Logístico Y Comercial De La Zona Franca De Bogotá 2012-2017, Angela Dayana Espitia Aguilar, Edna Alexandra León Romero

Negocios y Relaciones Internacionales

La Zona Franca de Bogotá, ubicada en la capital de Colombia, tiene como propósito desarrollar actividades industriales, de bienes y servicios, uniendo en un solo lugar a compañías nacionales e internacionales. De este modo, esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar los factores políticos y económicos que han influenciado en el desarrollo logístico y comercial de la Zona Franca de Bogotá entre 2012 y 2017. Se evidencia que la Ley 1004 de 2005 y la política comercial han sido factores que han aportado a la Inversión Extranjera Directa, a la creación de empleo, impulso del comercio exterior y mejoramiento del sector …

Humanomics: Moral Sentiments And The Wealth Of Nations For The Twenty-First Century, Vernon Smith, Bart J. Wilson

Economics Faculty Books and Book Chapters

Sometime in the last 250 years, economists lost sight of the full range of human feeling, thinking, and knowing in everyday life. Smith and Wilson show how Adam Smith's model of sociality can re-humanize twenty-first century economics by undergirding it with sentiments, fellow feeling, and a sense of propriety - the stuff of which human relationships are built. Integrating insights from The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations into contemporary empirical analysis, this book shapes economic betterment as a science of human beings.

New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Program Assessment 2019, Thomas Edison State University, Pel Analytics, Anderson Economic Group, The John S. Watson Institute For Public Policy

Urban Mayors Policy Center

In 2019, the State of New Jersey sought an evaluation of its Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) Program to determine the program’s economic impact and make recommendations for the program’s future. The John S. Watson Institute of Public Policy of Thomas Edison State University joined with PEL Analytics and Anderson Economic Group to produce the following study. The main recommendation of this analysis is to retain the UEZ Program while instituting various changes to make it stronger. Recommended changes in brief include reinstating some form of Zone Assistance Funds (ZAFs), creating a better system to collect data and track outcomes, assisting …

Introducing The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2018, Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Khandkher Wahedur Rahman

Economics & Political Science Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Arab Inequality Puzzle: The Role Of Income Sources In Egypt And Tunisia, Caroline Krafft, Elizabeth Davis

Economics & Political Science Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Who's Affected By A $15 Minimum Wage?, David A. Macpherson, W. E. Even

Economics Faculty Research

In 2015, the federal minimum wage was $7.25 and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report that, of the 78.2 million workers aged 16 and older in the U.S. that were paid hourly rates, 870,000 were paid a wage of exactly $7.25 per hour. Another 1.7 million hourly workers were paid wages below the federal minimum. In total, these 2.6 million workers made up 3.3 percent of all hourly workers in the U.S.

This chapter considers the history of the number of workers paid the minimum wage and projects how the landscape would change if the minimum wage were increased …

If You're Not Cheating, You're Not Trying: An Economic Analysis Of The Financial Futility Of Ncaa Sanctions, Travis Freytag

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The front page of sports news for the past few years has been filled with a cycle of recruiting and academic scandals from universities all over the country. Despite the repercussions that schools face from the NCAA for cheating, they continue to break the rules to obtain the top high school recruits in men’s basketball and football. Why has this become the common culture across college sports? In this study, we used data from a variety of sources, including the NCAA Legislative Database and the US Department of Education, to estimate the relationship between a university’s athletics revenue and the …

Study Of The Impact Of The Great Recession On The Relation Between Earnings Surprises And Stock Returns, Benjamin Anderson, Stoyu Ivanov

Faculty Publications

This paper examines the impact of the Great Recession on the relation between earnings surprises and stock returns and examines the role that informed and uninformed investors play in the formation of the post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD). We use quarterly earnings surprises (SUE), firms' standardized unexpected returns, calculated as actual earnings minus expected earnings, scaled by stock price one day prior to the earnings announcement, and one-year future stock returns, the subsequent twelve-month abnormal stock returns, calculated as the difference between the firm's buy-and-hold return and the value-weighted market buy-and-hold return, to test whether the Great Recession had an impact …

2019-1 Trading Motives In Asset Markets, Zijian Wang

Department of Economics Research Reports

I study how trading motives in asset markets affect equilibrium outcomes and welfare. I focus on two types of trading motives – informational and allocational. I show that while a fully separating equilibrium is the unique equilibrium when trading motives are known, multiple equilibria exist when trading motives are unknown. Moreover, forcing traders to reveal their trading motives may harm welfare. I also use this model to study how an asset market may exit a fire sale equilibrium and how government programs may eliminate private information and improve agents’ welfare.

2019-4 Assessing Misspecification And Aggregation For Structured Preferences, Roy Allen, John Rehbeck

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2019-5 Revealed Statistical Consumer Theory, Roy Allen, Pawel Dziewulski, John Rehbeck

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Learning Effects Of The Flipped Classroom In A Principles Of Microeconomics Course Running Header: Flipped Principles Of Micro, Erik Craft, Maia K. Linask

Economics Faculty Publications

The authors of this article estimate the learning effects of the flipped classroom format using data from 16 sections of principles of microeconomics over a 4-year period. The experimental design is unique in that two treatment and two control sections were taught during the fall semester in four consecutive years. Further, the instructor switched the time of day when the treatment and control sections were taught each year. Controlling for gender, ACT score, a normed high school GPA, Pell Grant award, time of day, and initial knowledge of economics, the authors find no evidence of increased learning using end-of-semester measures …

Setting An Agenda For The Future, Sam Allgood, Kimmarie Mcgoldrick

Economics Faculty Publications

Anniversaries are a time for reflection and planning for the future. The fiftieth year of the Journal of Economic Education motivated us to invite those who have been intimately involved with the Journal to provide reflections, which appear within this symposium. In addition to providing a wealth of information about the past, they set the stage for initiatives that support the path forward.

Switching Majors – Into And Out Of Economics, Tisha L. N. Emerson, Kimmarie Mcgoldrick

Economics Faculty Publications

Using student transcripts from six institutions over a 23-year timespan, the authors investigate the movement of students into and out of the economics major. Considerable movement between majors occurs with 83 percent of economics graduates switching in after their first principles course. These eventual majors come from a variety of sources, but primarily from business, engineering, science & math. In an absolute sense, weaker students (as measured by cumulative GPA) switch into economics. However, students appear to move to disciplines of relative academic strength (as indicated by relative grades). While females from other majors are less likely to switch into …