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Kentucky Annual Economic Report 2011, Kenneth R. Troske, Devanathan Sudharshan, Michael T. Childress

Kentucky Annual Economic Report

No abstract provided.

Nova Southeastern University 2011 Annual Report, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Current Ethiopian Experience, Sahai Redleaf

Whittier Scholars Program

The objective of this project is to understand the causes of growth and development (or lack thereof) that influence nations by examining Ethiopia’s economy and the political dynamics. In this research, Ethiopia’s history highlights major factors that influence tyrannical patterns within political parties, especially within the last few decades. Utilizing an economic approach, the project examined Ethiopia’s growth performance from 1989 to 2007. The Penn World Tables are the primary source of the data used to analyze figures of GDP per capita, adjusted by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP). This allows for prices to be adjusted so that a product in …

An Investigation Into How Greater Financial Stability Can Be Achieved For Portugal’S National Museums Under Management Of The Portuguese Institute Of Museums And Conservation (Imc), Luis Ramos Pinto

MA Theses

The European sovereign debt crisis has led to considerable cuts in public funding for the arts. Portugal, one of the countries most affected by the crisis has recently seen consistent public cuts for its cultural organizations. With the prospect of continued budget cuts, this paper seeks to examine how Portugal's largest public institute for the management of museums and built heritage the IMC (Instituto de Museus e Conservação) can seek to generate more private revenue and lower its costs in order to garner greater financial stability for itself. The research, based primarily on financial information dating up to 2010 looks …

Three Essays On Tax Salience: Market Salience And Political Salience, Darien Shanske, David Gamage

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Honorary Degree, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

Greek Honorary Degree

Department Of Economics Newsletter, V17, January 2011, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Economics.

Department of Economics Newsletter

Inside This Issue:
--Scholarship News
--Alumni News
--Josh Mahoney
--Alumni-in-Residence: Experience of a Lifetime
--Economics Club
--A Note From Ryan
--Economics Club and Chicago Trip Support
--Russia 2010
--Student Writing: Undergraduate Research Program
--Lawrence M. Jepson International Economics Essay Contest
--Commentaries From Faculty
--When Will Employment Recover?
--Economic Lessons
--Competitive Balance in Sports: Break Up the Yankees?
--A Brief Analysis of the Financial Crisis
--Faculty Awards
--Ken Brown Goes to Washington
--Faculty Notes
--From Our Emeritus Faculty
--Clean Fun
--Happenings
--Studies in Economics
--New Faculty
--Applied Economic Analysis
--UNI Economics Department: Connections
--What Economists Do In Their Free Time

Importing Trust: An Experimental Analysis On The Fiscal Behavior Of North Korean Refugees And Indian Citizens, Dane Thorley

Library Research Grants

No abstract provided.

A Theory Of Entangled Political Economy, With Application To Tarp And Nra, Adam Smith

Economics Department Faculty Publications & Research

The recent financial crisis has provoked a raft of contending claims as to whether the cause of the crisis is better attributed to market failure or political failure. Such claims are predicated on a presumption that markets and polities are meaningfully separate entities. To the contrary, we argue that contemporary arrangements create an entangled political economy that renders theorizing based on separation often misleading. Within this alternative framework of entangled political economy, we illuminate both the recent Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and the New Deal’s National Recovery Administration (NRA).

تطوير السياحة ….مدخل للتنمية المستدامة في العراق, Faris Kareeem Buraihi

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تجاوزت السياحة بمفهومها المعاصر من مجرد كونها سفر وفعاليات ترويحية، إلى نوع من الصناعة لها أبعادها الاقتصادية والاجتماعية وضمن إطار نوع من تنظيم العلاقات والمصالح بين دول العالم لذلك تعد التنمية السياحية في الوقت الحاضر أحد أهداف التنمية الاقتصادية والاجتماعية الشاملة لما لها من قدرة على تحسين ميزان المدفوعات وتوفير فرص عمل وخلق فرص مدرة للدخل، فضلا عن المساهمة في تحسبن اسلوب ونمط الحياة الاجتماعية لعموم أفراد المجتمع.وفي العراق، طالما عانى القطاع السياحي في العراق من مشاكل ومعوقات عديدة أبرزها أداء السياسات الحكومية، فضلا عن الحصار الاقتصادي وما تعرض له العراق من حروب ودمار شديدين طالت معظم الأماكن السياحية، وابتعاده …

Historical Foundations Syllabus, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Anwar Shaikh. (2011, Fall). Historical foundations of political economy I: GECO 5104 (syllabus) [Unpublished course syllabus]. Author.

• Shaikh, A. (2010, December). Economics 104: Historical foundations of political economy I (final examination question set) [Unpublished course examination]. Author.

• Shaikh, A. (2011, November 1). GECO 104: Historical foundations of political economy I (midterm examination) [Unpublished course examination]. Author.

Cross-Cultural Risk Behavior In Financial Decisions And The Cushion Hypothesis, Jin Tan

CMC Senior Theses

92 students from a Southern California liberal arts college and two Beijing universities participated in an online questionnaire. Their cultural tendencies (i.e. level of collectivism and perception of family support) and responses to hypothetical investment scenarios were observed. Participants were asked to provide the amount they would invest in each scenario as well as a risk safety rating. The Chinese respondents reported higher cushion and collectivism scores than the Americans. Furthermore, the Chinese sample offered more money for the three riskiest scenarios; they also rated three scenarios safer than the Americans did. The cushion and collectivism scores were not found …

Estimating The Effects Of Integrated Film Production On Box-Office Performance: Do Inhouse Effects Influence Studio Moguls?, Daniel M. Polyakov

CMC Senior Theses

Each year well over one billion movie tickets are sold to an audience who knows very little about what they are getting themselves into. Why is it that despite the uncertainty, people return to the theaters to see what Hollywood has in store for them? In efforts to provide answers regarding the driving forces behind Hollywood’s blockbuster hits, this study takes into account the integration levels of the studios. Specifically, does a movie produced in-house at a large studio have a better chance of being a blockbuster hit than one which is outsourced to an independent production company? Further, I …

Do Nba Fans Discriminate Against Race Or Nationality?, Peter Meyer

CMC Senior Theses

Previous work found evidence that the racial composition of NBA teams was positively correlated with the racial composition of their metropolitan market areas during the 1990s. This paper finds continued evidence of this relationship in the 2000s, with an accompanying attendance boost from the incorporation of white players on teams located in whiter areas. There is also evidence that white players receive a salary premium relative to black players of equal performance quality. An examination of player performance indicates that demand for foreign players with the skill set of a forward or center is higher than demand for players of …

Predicting Enrollment Decisions Of Students Admitted To Claremont Mckenna College, Michael Zaytsev

CMC Senior Theses

College admission has become increasingly competitive in the internet era. This is especially true for the highest caliber of students and institutions. College admission is a process filled with asymmetric information. One of the biggest asymmetries occurs when schools admit students not knowing whether or not students will actually enroll. This uncertainty is economically costly to schools. As national rankings become more and more influential, schools are more sensitive to their rank and the statistics that determine them. One of these is yield, the percentage of admitted students who enroll. This paper examines data on admitted students to Claremont McKenna …

A New Experiment On Rational Behavior, Myles R. Macdonald

CMC Senior Theses

Behavioral economics is widely recognized as a rising field in economics, one whose discoveries and implications are not yet completed or understood. At the same time, economic theory plays an enormous role in our governmental and legal system. In particular, the Coase Theorem and its implications have affected nearly every area in the field of law and economics. This paper proposes a experimental test of Coasean bargaining in situations using two competitive players whose payoffs depend on minimizing their costs of mitigating the externality. A rational player’s action can be predicted ahead of time, and the rationality of the game’s …

Executive Minority Employment And Compensation Gap In The S&P500: Is Compensation Disparity More Prevalent In Certain Industries?, Jason W. Toney

CMC Senior Theses

Minorities hold a significantly smaller percentage of executive positions in companies within the S&P500. However, whether these minorities are under compensated relative to their non-minority counterparts has not been previously investigated. Using Compustat data, this paper documents the differences in compensation between minorities and non-minorities as a whole, minority and non-minority CEOs, and the differences in compensation for minorities and non-minorities within industries. I show that there is no minority/white wage gap overall, and in some cases, minorities earn a premium compared to non-minorities.

Economic Development Under Dominant-Party Regimes, Christopher J. Gorud

Honors Theses

Case studies of economic development in Japan, Mexico, India, and Kenya examine the relationship between dominant-party regimes and developmental outcomes. This paper studies the variables of bureaucratic coherence and cohesion, corporatism, labor relations, and national developmentism as contributing factors to developmental success or failure in these states.

Keeping Nuclear Programs From Becoming Nuclear Weapons: A Game Theoretic And Econometric Analysis, Benjamin Guy Ogden

Honors Theses

There are currently only nine countries which possess nuclear weapons, but twenty-four countries have pursued the requisite technology. The question remains as to why nations ceased their programs, and whether the policies of the international community had anything to do with that decision. This paper uses both a game theoretic and a probit model with limited assumptions to attempt to uncover: a) what are the determinants of a country shuttering their nuclear weapon program, b) when "sticks and carrots" can be credible (subgame perfect), and c) how large of a role they play in the potential nuclear country's decision-making. I …

Inconsistent Var Regression With Common Explosive Roots, Peter C.B. Phillips, Tassos Magdalinos

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Nielsen (2009) shows that vector autoregression is inconsistent when there are common explosive roots with geometric multiplicity greater than unity. This paper discusses that result, provides a co-explosive system extension and an illustrative example that helps to explain the finding, gives a consistent instrumental variable procedure, and reports some simulations. Some exact limit distribution theory is derived and a useful new reverse martingale central limit theorem is proved.