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The Role Of Affordable Housing In Enhancing Tenants' Economic Stability In Connecticut: A Focus On Income, Employment, And Housing Stability, Osaid Zubi

Dissertations

This study examined the role of affordable housing in promoting economic stability among low- and moderate-income households in Connecticut. Focusing on income security, employment opportunities, and housing retention, this research highlighted the significance of affordable housing as a means to alleviate financial strain, support job retention, and foster community resilience. Utilizing a phenomenological approach, the study gathered insights from tenants, policymakers, and developers through conducting interviews and a focus group. Connecticut was chosen as the study site due to its high cost of living and affordable housing shortage, exacerbated by its proximity to New York City. Findings underscore the economic …

The Use (And Misuse) Of Tariffs In North America: A New Trade War?, Maroula Khraiche, Armando R. Lopez-Velasco, Jean-Baptiste Tondji

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Trade wars may have started. At the time this report was published, the Trump administration had threatened, then paused, a 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods. Before the pause, Mexico and Canada were preparing retaliatory tariffs. After the pause, Trump ordered a 25 percent import tax on all steel and aluminum entering the United States to start in March 2025 and announced a plan for tariffs on US trading partners. In this brief, we document the different perspectives and economic consequences of North American trade wars and beyond.

2nd Place Contest Entry: Aquí Y Ahora: The Role Of Us Spanish-Language Tv News In Financial Vulnerability, Cintya Felix

Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize

This is Cintya Felix's submission for the 2025 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won second place. It contains their essay on using library resources, their bibliography, and a summary of their research project on Spanish-language media’s impact on financial attitudes.

Cintya is a third-year student at Chapman University, majoring in Political Science and Spanish. Their faculty mentor is Dr. Ann Gordon.

2nd Place Research Paper: Aquí Y Ahora: The Role Of Us Spanish-Language Tv News In Financial Vulnerability, Cintya Felix

Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize

In today’s world, the news we watch often does more than inform us; it shapes our perceptions of security and the future. In this paper, I examine the extent to which an individual’s consumption of particular Spanish-speaking TV news channels contribute to their sense of financial vulnerability. Using an original data set of responses to the questions in the 2020 American National Election Studies (ANES), I find a moderately strong relationship between the television news channel Aquí y Ahora, and the degree to which they are worried about their financial situation. While it is true that various factors such …

Improved Biomass Cookstove Use In The Longer Run: Results From A Field Experiment In Rural Ethiopia, Alemu Mekonnen, Abebe D. Beyene, Sahan Dissanayake, Randall Bluffstone, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Daniel Lafave, Peter Martinsson, Michael Toman

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study examines longer-run usage frequency of Mirt improved biomass cookstoves (ICS), one of the most important ICS promoted in Ethiopia. Mirt has been shown to improve childhood health, and reduce fuelwood consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, but to generate those benefits, households must regularly use it over extended periods. Thus, this paper focuses on longer-run use using stove surface temperature data over five time intervals. We find that, close to its estimated lifespan, 63 per cent of households had their stoves in place after more than 3.5 years. Of those who abandoned their stoves, over 80 per cent did …

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 9, Number 4, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Tariff Headaches & 2025 Texas Economic Conditions, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Essays On Empirical Asset Pricing, Qi Fan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

My dissertation consists of three studies on how investor behavior affects the outcomes in financial markets. The first study focuses on the investors’ limited capacity on processing the complicated information transmitted through interconnected firms. The other two studies explore the investor heterogeneity on preferred time of trading, due to their personal traits or irrational judgements on the market conditions.

In Chapter 2, I focus on the return predictability across economically linked firms, due to investor limited attention. I document significant outperformance of stocks whose industry peers currently experience salient (attention-grabbing) gains, especially for those with strong social ties. The long-short …

Essays On Labor And Family Economics, Yutao Wang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation comprises three chapters that investigate the trade-offs between the quantity and quality of children, as well as trade-offs between female labor supply and family formation.

The first chapter investigates how family size shapes child migration in China, where most rural families have at least two children, and nearly 50% of children have migrant parents. We propose a model showing that, conditional on family size, boys and girls are equally likely to migrate with parents to cities. However, in societies with strong son preference, daughters' migration may still be constrained as they tend to have more siblings, and larger …

Research On The Impact Investment Evaluation System For Photovoltaic Power Generation Projects, Shumeng Tong

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This study aims to put forward a more comprehensive and scientific impact of photovoltaic power generation project investment evaluation system, in order to make up for the inadequacy of existing research, for photovoltaic power generation project investment decision-making to provide a more powerful support. The conclusions and contributions of this study are as follows.

（1）Build impact of photovoltaic power generation project investment evaluation system, can comprehensively reflect more interests related subject of value, makes up for the traditional investment evaluation tend to focus on economic benefit analysis of the defects.

（2）The impact investment evaluation system of this study highlights the …

Flow Experience In Immersive Tourism Performance: Antecedents And Tourists’ Satisfaction, Xiaoli Zhu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

With the deep integration of culture and tourism, immersive tourism performance has emerged as a new form of experiential consumption and has gradually become an essential vehicle for shaping destination branding and enhancing tourists’ cultural identity. By breaking the boundaries of traditional stages and integrating spatial construction, narrative mechanisms, and multidimensional interactive experiences, immersive performances create a sense of presence and immersion for tourists. This study focuses on the mechanism influencing tourists’ flow experience and satisfaction in immersive tourism performances. A theoretical model incorporating authenticity, interactivity, sense of presence, and value congruence was constructed and tested to reveal how multidimensional …

Estimation And Inference In A Possibly Multicointegrated System With A Fixed Number Of Instruments, Yixiao Sun, Peter C. B. Phillips, Igor L. Kheifets

Research Collection School Of Economics

This paper shows that the mixed normal asymptotic limit of the trend IV estimator with a fixed number of deterministic instruments (fTIV) holds in both singular (multicointegrated) and nonsingular cointegration systems, thereby relaxing the exogeneity condition in (Phillips and Kheifets, 2024, Theorem 1(ii)). The mixed normality of the limiting distribution of fTIV allows for asymptotically pivotal F and t tests about the cointegration parameters and for simple efficiency comparisons of the estimators for different numbers K of instruments, as well as comparisons with the trend IV estimator when K→∞ with the sample size.

(Wp 2025-01) Trautwein's Challenge To The History Of Economics, John B. Davis

Economics Working Papers

Hans-Michael Trautwein’s presidential address to the European Society raised provocative questions regarding the nature of current economics that should concern not just historians of economics but economists as well (Trautwein, 2017). Are the processes driving current research in economics creating a greater and greater specialization in subjects and economic thinking that is fragmenting and disunifying the field? Here I discuss Trautwein’s question and his answer to it particularly as bear on the future status and responsibilities of the history of economics as a field within economics. First, I give an account of what is involved in research specialization in science …

Opioid Treatment Matters: An Analysis Of District Attorney Non-Prosecution, Samuel A. Maloney

Senior Theses

Drug use and drug overdose have become an overriding concern both for civic order and due to the raw death toll from the opioid epidemic. One reform push in the late 2010s/early 2020s, county-level District Attorneys signalling that they would not prose- cute drug use and related crimes, aimed to reduce overdose by reducing criminalization and stigma as a barrier to opioid treatment. At its peak, the policy covered between twenty and thirty million Americans. Using hand-collected data on District Attorney policies and Augmented Synthetic Control for causal identification, I estimate null ef- fects of non-prosecution policies on an urban …

Statistical Inference For Noisy Matrix Completion Incorporating Auxiliary Information, Shujie Ma, Po-Yao Niu, Yichong Zhang, Yinchu Zhu

Research Collection School Of Economics

This article investigates statistical inference for noisy matrix completion in a semi-supervised model when auxiliary covariates are available. The model consists of two parts. One part is a low-rank matrix induced by unobserved latent factors; the other part models the effects of the observed covariates through a coefficient matrix which is composed of high-dimensional column vectors. We model the observational pattern of the responses through a logistic regression of the covariates, and allow its probability to go to zero as the sample size increases. We apply an iterative least squares (LS) estimation approach in our considered context. The iterative LS …

Trade Data Oecd, International Competetiveness, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• OECD Economics Department. (1993, July). International trade and competitiveness indicators documentation

• OECD Economics Department. (1994, January). International trade and competitiveness indicators data base (ITCI) documentation

• OECD Economics Department. (1994, July). International trade and competitiveness indicators documentation (updated version)

• U.S. Department of Labor. (2002, April). Underlying data for indexes of output per hour, hourly compensation, and unit labor costs in manufacturing, fourteen countries or areas, including data tables for various countries

• U.S. Department of Labor. (2002, April). International comparisons of labor productivity and unit labor costs in manufacturing, 2000 (Report 962)

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (1998, …

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Trade And Competitiveness Indicators, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Notes titled OECD database on international trade and competitiveness indicators (1995, August 17)

• Rosensweig, J. A. (1987). Constructing and using exchange rate indexes. Economic Review (Summer), 4–16

• Durand, M., Simon, J., & Webb, C. (1992). OECD’s indicators of international trade and competitiveness (No. 120). OECD Publishing

• Information sheet about the OECD International Trade and Competitiveness Indicators on PC diskette

• U.S. Department of Labor. (2003, February). Relative trade-weighted indexes, 1979–2001, with associated data tables for various countries

• Handwritten notes on the U.S. Department of Labor document (2007, March 29)

• U.S. Department of Labor. (2007, February). Underlying data …

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Current Paper On Exchange Rate, Rates Of Return, Etc., Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Shaikh, A. (1998). Real exchange rates and the international mobility of capital

• Draft paper titled The effects of a falling rate of profit on the stock market (1999, March 8)

• Testimony titled Explaining the U.S. trade deficit submitted before the Trade Deficit Review Commission (1999, December 10)

• Draft paper titled Competition and rates of return in U.S. manufacturing industries, 1960–1990 (1997, April)

Productivity Monitor Article, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Handwritten notes titled RXR & productivity: Harrod / Ballassa / Samuelson model (2001, August 9)

• Handwritten notes on Canadian RULC and related topics referencing Chen and Rogoff and Arbrano (?) (2002, March 24)

• Email from Andrew Sharpe regarding referee reports on a paper, including referee comments and references (2002, August 26)

• List of references with handwritten annotations

• Handwritten notes on H/M data and comments

• List of references including Amano and Norden (1993) and Andrews (1993)

• Email from Andrew Sharpe with comments on an outline (2002, April 17)

• Pages from a draft article referencing Chen and Rogoff (2002), …

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South Africa Paper, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Handwritten notes on the cover of the file containing equations

• Undated draft article titled Capitalist development and real exchange rates: Evidence from underdeveloped countries

Loose Notes On Trade, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• A graph titled Terms of trade (pm/px) vs. relative import price (pm/py) for the U.S. (1960–2000)

• A document by Ascension Mejorado describing the contents and sources for a database of economic data files (8/1998)

• Handwritten notes outlining Trade deficit theory + practice (5/4/01)

• Handwritten notes titled Eco theory at the crossroads (11/7/01)

• Page 4 of a paper, possibly by Khalid Abu-Ismail, discussing Thirlwall's Law with a graph of export vs. import growth rates (1960–1999) (4/2006)

Bond Rates, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Document titled Bond rate of return.doc (2004-11-18).

• Handwritten notes titled Arbitrage + rate of returns (2004-11-26).

• Document titled Real, bond, and bank sector profit rate equalization (2004-12-03).

• Handwritten notes titled Total var total eq commodity mkts.

• Pages from The theory of interest by Friedrich A. Lutz (1968).

• Handwritten notes titled Financial intermediaries bond market.

• Handwritten notes on arbitrage.

• Handwritten notes on financial intermediaries (2007-07-13).

• Pages discussing term structure of interest rates.

• Handwritten notes titled Bond market arbitrage (2007-07-13).

• Chapter 9: Competition, finance, and interest rates (2007-07-12).

• Handwritten notes comparing theories of interest and rates of …

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Marx On The Interest Rate, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Article: Lapavitsas, C. (2000). On Marx’s analysis of money hoarding in the turnover of capital. Review of Political Economy, 12, 219–236.

• Document titled Interest rate Marx Cippolla 1997.doc by Francisco Paulo Cipolla (1997-07).

• Chapter: Plasmeijer, H. W. (1998). Marx on the natural rate of interest: Did Marx hold a monetary theory of income distribution? In R. Bellofiore (Ed.), Marxian economics: A reappraisal.

• Notes on Marx’s interest rate and bond market.

The World Is A Wasteland: Living In An Age Of Diminishing Expectations, Thiago Canettieri

Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis

Building on Hu Bo´s film “An elephant sitting still”, this paper examines a specific condition in contemporary society, in which expectations about the future are declining. This situation is interpreted as a consequence of the progressive collapse of modernisation. The diminishing expectations, I claim, are related to capital´s internal crisis, which erodes the very fabric of social mediation; in its place, arise all kinds of atavistic forms of violent desocialisation. I intend to recognize and examine a new condition of historicity in which time is no longer productive. Society experiences history as a dead time of dilated presentism. With this …

Forward Selection Fama-Macbeth Regression With Higher-Order Asset Pricing Factors, Nicola Borri, Denis Chetverikov, Yukun Liu, Aleh Tsyvinski

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We show that the higher-orders and their interactions of the common sparse linear factors can effectively subsume the factor zoo. To this extend, we propose a forward selection Fama-MacBeth procedure as a method to estimate a high-dimensional stochastic discount factor model, isolating the most relevant higher-order factors. Applying this approach to terms derived from six widely used factors (the Fama-French five-factor model and the momentum factor), we show that the resulting higher-order model with only a small number of selected higher-order terms significantly outperforms traditional benchmarks both in-sample and out-of-sample. Moreover, it effectively subsumes a majority of the factors from …

The Bullwhip: Time-To-Build And Sectoral Fluctuations, Yan Leng, Ernest Liu, Yifei Ren, Tsyvinski Aleh

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

We develop a theory of sectoral fluctuations driven by the propagation of demand shocks along supply chains with heterogeneous time-to-build production. We solve the model in closed form. Downstream producers respond directly to current demand. Upstream producers, due to time-to-build delays, respond to anticipated future demand. Consequently, hump-shaped demand shocks to downstream goods propagate and amplify along the supply chain, generating pronounced volatility in upstream sectors and creating the bullwhip effect. Empirically and quantitatively, we show that the bullwhip is significant across downstream sectors that are important for final consumption.

Review Of Ordinary Whites In Apartheid Society: Social Histories Of Accommodation, Gary Prevost

The Journal of Social Encounters

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Age Of Insecurity: Coming Together As Things Fall Apart, Michael Mclaughlin

The Journal of Social Encounters

No abstract provided.

Christian Ethics And Business Leadership, Jon Armajani

The Journal of Social Encounters

This essay discusses the ethical principles of listening, community, stewardship, and interreligious and intercultural understanding with respect to business leadership. It opens by discussing definitions of ethics and their relevance to businesses and business leaders. It continues by providing a description of the consulting company Accenture’s ethical principles and practices, as positive examples. The essay provides Arthur Andersen and its work with Enron and WorldCom, both of which went bankrupt in the early 2000s, as examples of the failures that occur when ethical principles are not practiced. Then, the essay states that Christianity and the Benedictine tradition constitute a basis …

Peter Maurin As The New St. Benedict: A Review Essay, William J. Collinge

The Journal of Social Encounters

No abstract provided.