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Economics Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SIMPLE SUM AND DIVISIA MONETARY AGGREGATION: A COMPARISON OF THEIR PREDICTIVE POWER REGARDING PRICES AND OUTPUT IN TURKEY
(University of Kansas, 2009-05-04)If there is one thing economists agree on, probably it is that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Money also is thought to be related to the output level of the economy. The consensus among economists, however, does not ... -
Three Essays on Industrial Organization
(University of Kansas, 2008-12-18)The dissertation discusses issues in the field of industrial organization. When the government provides better infrastructure to competing firms for innovation, private firms' R&D expenditures are affected. When the ... -
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics: Applications to the GCC Monetary Union
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-01)With the introduction of the monetary union and the single currency in the Gulf Cooperation Council by 2010, the prospective supernational monetary agency will conduct a single and indivisible monetary and exchange policy. ... -
Do U.S. tariff reductions explain rising wage inequality?: The case of U.S. tariffs on imports from countries having free trade agreements with the U.S.
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-28)The wage gap between skilled workers and unskilled workers expanded in the U.S. Based on the essential idea of Stolper and Samuelson (1941) and following the mandated wage method of Haskel and Slaughter (2003), this ... -
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP: NONPARAMETRIC TESTS OF WEAK SEPARABILITY AND ITS MONTE CARLO STUDIES
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-19)There have not been clear conclusions of the nonparametric weak separability tests over a wide range of parameter settings and with the generated data with measurement errors. With the Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference, ... -
Contributions to Intertemporal Models in Financial Economics
(University of Kansas, 2008-08-15)Investors in financial markets face several restrictions apart from wealth constraints. The first attempt to understand these restrictions in a general competitive equilibrium framework can be traced back to Radner (1972). ... -
Essays in Macroeconomic Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2008-07-31)This dissertation consists of four essays concerning the analysis of dynamic fluctuations in various U.S. macroeconomic aggregates with particular attention to the links between real private investment, real private ... -
Three Essays in Applied Econometrics
(University of Kansas, 2008-01-07)This dissertation includes three essays in Applied Econometrics. Each essay explores an interesting and important question in the real economic world. In the course of investigating the nature of each question, appropriate ... -
An Empirical Microeconomic Study of the Entrepreneur
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-03)Entrepreneurs are an important segment of the economy, particularly in terms of economic development (Baumol, et al. 2007). However, the study of entrepreneurs and how they create firms is still an open question (Venkataraman ...