"Artificial Intelligence And Economic Development In Ghana: Assessing The Role Of Government Policy And Regulation",
2025
Fordham University
"Artificial Intelligence And Economic Development In Ghana: Assessing The Role Of Government Policy And Regulation", Sebastian Sharma
Senior Theses
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming economies worldwide, with profound implications for economic development in the Global South. Various questions arise regarding whether these changes will positively or negatively impact the economy and individuals worldwide. In this thesis, I examine how Ghana has implemented AI and utilized it to generate economic growth for all members of its society. I argue that through government regulation and framework Ghana was able to maximize the benefits AI has to offer while also minimizing the various risks it may bring. Ghana is a perfect example of how a country in the Global South despite …
Analyzing Immigrant Pay Gaps & The Policies That Influence Them,
2025
Loyola Marymount University
Analyzing Immigrant Pay Gaps & The Policies That Influence Them, Rebeca Perez, Prachi Jain
Honors Thesis
Despite making up 14% of the US population, little research has been done on pay gaps for immigrants, the majority of whom are Latin American immigrants. I analyze the effect of immigration on immigrants’ wages, specifically looking at the effects of region of birth, citizenship, and state immigration policies. I find that even when compared to natives with similar education, Latin American immigrants earn significantly less. Furthermore, while noncitizens earn less than natives and naturalized citizens earn more overall, Latin Americans face a larger penalty for noncitizenship and lower returns to citizenship. Finally, while living in Sanctuary and Anti-Sanctuary States …
Recent U.S. Government Policy Literature On Critical And Strategic Minerals,
2025
Purdue University
Recent U.S. Government Policy Literature On Critical And Strategic Minerals, Bert Chapman
Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research
Critical and strategic minerals have become increasingly important in U.S. government civilian and military policymaking in recent years. This is demonstrated by the heavy use of such minerals in many critical civilian and military infrastructures. This work will discuss how this subject has been addressed in laws, presidential documents, and works by government agencies along with congressional oversight committees and support agencies. It will stress how the United States is heavily dependent on strategic minerals from adversarial foreign countries such as China and will examine U.S. efforts to increase its ability to produce such materials in the United States by …
Public And Private Police And Their Impact On Crime: Evidence From American Universities,
2025
Northern Illinois University
Public And Private Police And Their Impact On Crime: Evidence From American Universities, Cruz K. Marquis
Honors Capstones
This study quantitatively assesses the effect of fully deputized private police (FDPP) on nine measures of crime on 770 American university campuses over thirteen years. Building on the analysis of FDPP found in Stringham (2015), this study offers a public choice analysis of the incentives resulting from private ownership, positing that officers serving in such systems face systemically different incentives than their public counterparts, leading to a more vigilant and consumer-focused security posture. This increases the likelihood that criminals will be apprehended, which thereby reduces the expected utility of criminality, leading to fewer such instances. By building a unique dataset …
Elected To Die: The Effect Of Municipal Assassinations On Remittances In Mexico,
2025
Macalester College
Elected To Die: The Effect Of Municipal Assassinations On Remittances In Mexico, Victor M. Mendez Robles
Latin American Studies Honors Projects
This paper looks at localized violence in Mexico through both a qualitative and quantitative approach. Looking at some motivating factors behind violence against political institutions at the municipal level in Mexico. In addition, this paper looks at the relationship between assassinations of municipal mayors in Mexico to see if their assassination leads to changes in remittances in those municipalities in the following periods. This paper uses various difference in difference models to come to its conclusion. There is suggestive evidence of a relationship between remittance growth in municipalities in the periods following an assassination of a mayor currently in office.
Unintended Consequences: How Direct Cash Payments To Families Experiencing Poverty Lowered Child Poverty Rates In The United States,
2025
California State University, San Bernardino
Unintended Consequences: How Direct Cash Payments To Families Experiencing Poverty Lowered Child Poverty Rates In The United States, Wayne Dunn
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Child poverty has adverse effects for the children who experience it and it has long term social and economic consequences into adulthood. This policy analysis looks at the policy choices America has made in addressing child poverty and what effects, if any, those policies have had. After reviewing traditional in-kind policy options for addressing child poverty, this article focuses on the decreases in the child poverty rate that occurred with the passage of pandemic era legislation that provided direct cash assistance to all Americans. Because the assistance programs only happened in two consecutive years and were terminated at the end …
The Influence Of Political Uncertainty On Financial Markets During U.S. Elections: A Comprehensive Analysis,
2025
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Influence Of Political Uncertainty On Financial Markets During U.S. Elections: A Comprehensive Analysis, Ryan Hale
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis examines the impact of U.S. presidential elections on financial market performance, focusing on volatility, investor behavior, and market returns. Political uncertainty during election years often triggers market fluctuations, influencing investor confidence, policy expectations, and sector-specific reactions. By analyzing historical election-year data, this study identifies consistent patterns of increased volatility, shifts in investor sentiment, and post-election market stabilization. Findings suggest that while short-term uncertainty affects market behavior, long-term investment strategies should prioritize broader economic trends over election-driven fluctuations. These insights provide practical guidance for investors navigating politically uncertain environments.
The People's Ledger: Reform Or Revolution?,
2025
Buffalo State College
The People's Ledger: Reform Or Revolution?, Kostantinos R. Grigoras
Applied Economics Theses
The ramifications of the 2007-08 financial crisis, the later Covid-19 pandemic, and the technological developments surrounding cryptocurrencies and digital ledgers have led to increasingly explicit political views on banking apart from dominant mainstream economic narratives. As such, a widening range of authors from varying perspectives have sought to contribute a “programmatic vision” to the set of changes they assert as necessary in the current financial system. Saule T. Omarova’s (2021) controversial article, “The People’s Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy,” and the resulting political reaction to its goal of advancing such a programmatic vision in order to …
Cares Act And Income Inequality In The Long Run,
2025
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Cares Act And Income Inequality In The Long Run, Kathleen Washington
Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)
In this paper, I will be looking at how the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a revolutionary public policy, led to income inequality decreasing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the US. Additionally, from the data available, the CARES Act seems to not have had any long run effects on income inequality in the US. Although, I would recommend more research on the CARES Act’s long-run effects when more data become available as time passes.
Almost Last Again? Mississippi's Labor Force Participation Rate: Causes And Solutions,
2025
Mississippi State University
Almost Last Again? Mississippi's Labor Force Participation Rate: Causes And Solutions, John Martin Fox
Honors Theses
Mississippi is currently ranked second to last in labor force participation rate in the country. This is the latest damning statistic inhibiting the state from growing and becoming a more nationally recognized state with higher economic output. This thesis examines how Mississippi arrived at this bleak labor force participation rate and what is currently ongoing to alleviate it. It also examines some possible proposed solutions to accelerate those efforts. Through extensive research and numerous interviews with officials from public and private sector employees directly dealing with this predicament, this thesis has assembled a thorough and comprehensive picture of how the …
Climate Change Adaptation Through Economic Democracy,
2025
Wright State University
Climate Change Adaptation Through Economic Democracy, Shriraksha Mohan
Best Integrated Writing
Mohan investigates and combines three different areas of literature and social movements to discuss the problem of climate change and economic adaptation. The value of this work is that it can be used to communicate among three independent types of social movements and inquiries. This can strengthen and connect dispersed yet overlapping efforts in addressing work issues, resource utilization, economic governance and participation, and ecological problems economies face today.
Profit Shifting And Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Us Multinational Enterprises,
2025
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Profit Shifting And Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Us Multinational Enterprises, Dimitris Giakoulas, Kostas Gemenis, Nikolaos Daskalakis
The Journal of Economics and Politics
In this paper, we investigate tax avoidance of MNEs through profit shifting to tax havens. Using macro data from US MNEs, we analyze at the host country level where US affiliates book their profits and where their actual production activities take place. We find that the effect of the corporate tax on excess profits is conditional on whether the host country is considered to be a tax haven. Among tax haven host countries, a difference of 1% in the corporate tax is associated with a change of 8-15% in excess profits, while the relationship between corporate tax and excess profits …
Cash Or Credit: A Collection Of Short Essays About Economic Philosophy And The Trajectory Of Political Economy,
2025
Gettysburg College
Cash Or Credit: A Collection Of Short Essays About Economic Philosophy And The Trajectory Of Political Economy, Jackson C. Dusart
Student Publications
From John Locke to Herbert Marcuse, discussions about economics and societies have dominated the philosophical battleground. While Adam Smith waged a war against mercantilism, men like Karl Marx and John Stuart Mill, two ideological enemies, were both writing to address the same problems they saw in society. Each one of these men has contributed to a different part of the discussion. In understanding their differences, and their common ground, these essays examine a hypothetical four-hundred-dollar jacket, stolen from the author at Gettysburg College. Each one of these philosophers, each writing at different times and in different circumstances, will attempt to …
The World Is A Wasteland: Living In An Age Of Diminishing Expectations,
2025
Federal University of Minas Gerais
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 …
Democracy And Foreign Aid: How Democratic Institutions Affect Aid Effectiveness,
2025
Old Dominion University
Democracy And Foreign Aid: How Democratic Institutions Affect Aid Effectiveness, Jonas Bensah
Graduate Research Conference (GSIS)
This research paper examines the comparative effectiveness of foreign aid in Ghana and Zimbabwe, highlighting the critical role of political regimes and democratic institutions. The study underscores that while democratic governance, characterized by transparency, accountability, and citizen participation, significantly enhances aid effectiveness. Ghana’s stable democracy and robust institutions have facilitated the effective use of aid, leading to significant improvements in economic growth, education, healthcare, and infrastructure. In contrast, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian regime, marked by corruption and political repression, has hindered the efficient utilization of aid, exacerbating the country's socio-economic challenges. Policy recommendations for donors emphasize the need for promoting democratic governance, …
The Theoretical Consequences Of Mr. Churchill Gold Standard Policy And The ‘Long Struggle Of Escape’,
2025
Redlands University
The Theoretical Consequences Of Mr. Churchill Gold Standard Policy And The ‘Long Struggle Of Escape’, Nathaniel Cline, Matias Vernengo
Working Papers
No abstract provided.
The Market Value Of Partisan Balance,
2025
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
The Market Value Of Partisan Balance, Brian D. Feinstein, Daniel J. Hemel
Northwestern University Law Review
For the past century, Delaware’s constitution has provided that no more than a bare majority of judges on the state’s courts may hail from the same political party. Some scholars and jurists theorize that Delaware’s commitment to a politically balanced judiciary increases the state’s attractiveness to out-of-state corporations and adds value to Delaware-chartered firms. These claims echo a larger literature in law and the social sciences positing that ideological diversity improves decisional quality. Recently, a series of federal court decisions in the case of Adams v. Carney put these claims to the test. In December 2017, a federal district court …
Partisanship And The Social Construction Of Deservingness In The United States,
2025
Bucknell University
Partisanship And The Social Construction Of Deservingness In The United States, Christopher Ellis, Chris Faricy
Working Papers
No abstract provided.
International Monetary Adjustment With And Without A Global Fiscal Authority,
2025
Redlands University
International Monetary Adjustment With And Without A Global Fiscal Authority, Nathaniel Cline, David Fields, Matias Vernengo
Working Papers
No abstract provided.
Forgive Me Not? Racial And Institutional Disparities In The Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness,
2025
Illinois State University
Forgive Me Not? Racial And Institutional Disparities In The Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness, Vladimir Kotomin, Wyatt Frere, Ruby Morr
Faculty Publications – Finance, Insurance, and Law
Existing research establishes that minority borrowers, particularly Black small business owners, faced significant challenges in accessing funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), especially in its early stages. We find that institutional and racial disparities persist during the PPP loan forgiveness stage. Controlling for various loan- and borrower-level characteristics, we demonstrate that relationship lenders – community banks, credit unions, and farm credit institutions – are associated with higher rates of PPP loan forgiveness. In contrast, automated lenders – fintechs and fintech banks – exhibit the lowest forgiveness rates. Black borrowers experience the poorest outcomes, except for loans issued by non-depository …
