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A reassesment of minimum wage impacts with pooled synthetic control.
(2018-04-30)I analyze state minimum wage increases with pooled synthetic control. State minimum wages are deferentially binding depending on the level of the federal minimum wage. These results are consistent with but more robust than ... -
Antidumping tariff : the case of certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.
(2010-06-23)In 2003, certain catfish fillets from Vietnam were claimed as having been dumped into the United States market, causing material injuries to domestic producers, and were assessed antidumping duties in the range of 37 to ... -
A baseline admissions prediction model with textual analysis and confidence interval estimations.
(, 2014-09-05)Essays submitted out individuals applying to Baylor University may contain hidden information that would assist the admissions department in their decision to accept the appicant. Through textual analysis, this paper ... -
Capital Regulation, Heterogeneous Monitoring Costs, and Aggregate Loan Quality
(2005-08-13)This paper develops a banking-sector framework with heterogeneous loan monitoring costs. Banks are exposed to the moral hazard behavior of borrowers and endogenously choose whether to monitor their loans to eliminate this ... -
Collaborating for good : building a virtual reality simulation to improve health outcomes in the urban slums of India.
(2018-04-25)This research studies a cross-discipline, cross-cultural, and cross-sector collaborative process used to build a virtual reality simulation (VRS). The VRS is part of a social innovation collaboration (SIC) project to improve ... -
Could sub-debts of banks be potential tools for supervision? Empirical study with data set 1999-2007.
(2008-06-11)Most previous research has discussed how spreads of sub-debts could be tools to signal the risks of banks. However, studies have focused on data preceding 1999, when the Financial Modernization Act (FMA) has not yet been ... -
The determinants of Chinese housing price inflation.
(, 2013-05-15)Housing prices in major Chinese cities have been soaring since 2003. Some economists believe that this represents a dangerous speculative bubble while others argue that Chinese housing price inflation is a normal consequence ... -
Determinants of faculty salaries at elite liberal arts colleges.
(2011-01-05)In this paper we focus on the determinants of faculty salary levels at elite liberal arts colleges for specific years over the past decade. We address the role regional personal income per capita and endowment play in ... -
Do We Really Understand Home Ownership Rates? An International Study
(2005-08-13)This paper attempts to fill two gaps in the homeownership literature identified by Dietz and Haurin (2003): homeownership in less developed countries and the effects of race, ethnicity and income on tenure choice. We use ... -
Does Consumer Search Matter for Firm Markups?
(2005-08-13)This study investigates the relationship between consumer search costs, inflation, and firm markups in retail trade by employing actual measures of search cost. Consistent with theory, results indicate that markups can be ... -
Does Medicare increase opioid drug usage? A regression discontinuity study.
(2018-04-22)Recently, the overuse of opioid medications in the United States has garnered national attention, spurring many leaders to declare it a national epidemic. Medicare Part D provides prescription drug coverage for various ... -
Dollarization and growth : a synthetic control approach to Ecuador and El Salvador’s cases.
(2016-04-21)This thesis examines the impact of full dollarization on economic growth in Ecuador and El Salvador by employing the synthetic control method. We find that, relative to the counterfactual built, these currency substitutions ... -
Effects of debt relief under the enhanced HIPC Initiative and the MDRI on developing countries using a time-shifted difference-in differences strategy.
(2017-06-28)The IMF and World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in 1996 to alleviate the debt overhang problem in developing countries. They amended the program to the Enhanced HIPC Initiative in 1999 ... -
Existence of Equilibriuim in Welfare-enhancing Free Trade Areas
(2005-08-13)Proving the existence of equilibrium having specified properties is often synonymous with proving the result in trade theory. The Grandmont-McFadden proposition that any autarkic allocation can be replaced by a Pareto ... -
Exploring the impacts of development methodologies on the collective action of information systems development project teams.
(2017-08-25)Information systems development (ISD) constitutes the largest proportion of capital expenditures in most medium to large organizations globally, yet delays and budget overruns are commonplace. ISD methodologies, such as ... -
Export sophistication and catching up.
(2010-10-08)The catching up model predicts that countries who continue to increase technology through economic policies will experience sustained growth and success in closing the gap between themselves and the current technology ... -
Global Patent Protection: Channels of North & South Welfare Gain
(2005-08-13)Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ... -
Hispanic assimilation to American health insurance.
(2006-10-26)Policy makers, insurance companies, physicians, healthcare administrators, and especially patients have acknowledged the need for healthcare reform. Some economists speculate high healthcare costs arise from charging ... -
How has the effect of the WTO on bilateral trade changed over time?
(2018-05-01)Using the most recent data set on bilateral trade from 1962 to 2015 and a Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator with and without country-pair fixed effects, this thesis shows the overall effect of WTO/GATT ... -
Impact of childhood exposure to family problem gambling on adult gambling pathology.
(, 2014-06-11)Does the apple fall far from the tree? Proverbs 22:6 says: "Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." One theory from the social sciences termed Social Learning Theory would ...