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Economics Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Essays on Real Exchange Rates and Theoretical Monetary Aggregation
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This dissertation is a collection of three essays focused on real exchange rates and theoretical monetary aggregation. The first essay focused on the convergence of real exchange rates' idiosyncratic effects after isolating ... -
Essays on the Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth and Welfare: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)This study examines the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows on economic growth and welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Following the growing consensus among scholars that the effects of FDI on growth in ... -
The Genesis of the Silver Dollar
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Our National Banking System
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Institutions, Natural Resources, and Economic Development in the MENA Countries
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of institutions and natural resource on per capita income in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The study answers the following questions: Do institutions and natural ... -
The Effects of the Fiscal Policy on Economic Activity in Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The fiscal policy has been studied extensively, but only as a one shot deal and with emphasis on developed economies. The study of fiscal policy as a trajectory and of its consequences, also, as trajectory has been pioneered ... -
Essays on International Trade
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)As the world progresses and countries continue to compete for dominance, economic development has become the key criterion in assessing of a country's strength. International trade is a catalyst of growth and the study of ... -
Bifurcation Analysis of Endogenous Growth Models
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)It is important to recognize that bifurcation boundaries do not necessarily separate stable from unstable solution domains. Bifurcation boundaries can separate one kind of unstable dynamics domain from another kind of ... -
UNCOVERING BASIC WANTS USING THE ROTTERDAM AND AIDS MODELS: THE US HOUSEHOLD ENERGY CONSUMPTION CASE
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Economists inflate the explanatory power of measurable variables such as price and income to explain demand. Using only quantifiable variables is very attractive since it makes it easy to construct mathematically consistent ... -
Three Essays on Stock Market Dynamics
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)This dissertation aims to understand the comovements of international stock markets, financial contagion, and the relationship between international stock market comovements and macroeconomic factors. It contains three ... -
Essays on Broad Divisia Monetary Aggregates: Admissibility and Practice
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)The assumption of weak separability of goods and services in the utility function is ubiquitous in macroeconomic modeling. If the goods and services are weakly separable, they can be combined into an "admissible" aggregate. ... -
Essays on Return and Volatility on World Stock Markets
(University of Kansas, 2013-08-31)This research is mainly focused on investigating volatility dynamics of world stock returns. More specifically, the main goal is to capture co-movements and analyze dynamic transmission mechanisms of volatility of stock ... -
A Study of the Effect of Warm-Up on Certain Physiological Parameters During Exercise and Recovery
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A Description and Analysis of a Reflective Study of Three Science Units
(The University of Kansas, 1936) -
A Study of the Writing Interests of a Group of Fourth Grade Children
(The University of Kansas, 1967) -
Nonlinear Analysis and Dynamic Structure in the Energy Market
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This research assesses the dynamic structure of the energy sector of the aggregate economy in the context of nonlinear mechanisms. Earlier studies have focused mainly on the price of the energy products when detecting ... -
Essays on Asset Pricing and Political Risk
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)Some financial assets experience higher average returns than others. Asset-pricing theory suggests that this is due to the amount of systematic risk of that particular asset: the riskier the asset, the higher the average ... -
Returns on Real Estate Investment in the Case-Shiller Composite Cities
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)In this paper we estimate the housing services dividend in eight major U.S. cities using data from the U.S. Census. We then construct quarterly time series of housing investment total returns using the Case-Shiller house ... -
Shifting Preferences and Time-Varying Parameters in Demand Analysis: A Monte Carlo Study
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)Using Monte Carlo experiments, I address two issues in demand analysis. The first relates to the performance of local flexible functional forms in recovering the time-varying elasticities of a true model, and in correctly ... -
Three essays on empirical macroeconomics and financial markets
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-21)This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical macroeconomics and financial markets in the United States. Although they can be considered as three independent essays, their findings are connected with each other ...