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Creator:: Larmer, Zoe
Abstract:: Persistent racial residential and educational segregation in the United States are major sources of institutional racism and inequality. In this essay I focus on the housing search stage, an intermediary between where people say they want to live and where they ultimately end up living. Past research has explored preferences...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: APPROVED: Carol Tremblay, representing Economics Victor Tremblay

Creator:: Ding, Lin
Abstract:: Global warming is an increasingly serious problem around the world. To mitigate the influence of global warming on people’s lives, the Obama Administration put an emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate global warming. The adoption of energy efficient vehicles, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid vehicles...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: , Professor Victor Tremblay and Professor Alison Johnston for their helpful feedback, encouragement and

Creator:: Liao, Shaoshan
Abstract:: The objective of this study is to identify the variation in health care access and utilization among immigrant and U.S. born citizens in California. It aims at finding the reasons behind the disparity so that U.S. health agencies can make more efforts to improve the availability of health care services...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: APPROVED: Carol Tremblay, Committee Chair Victor Tremblay

Creator:: Getsiv, Kyle J.
Abstract:: This paper analyzes macroeconomic variables to determine their effect on the United States’ trade balance. Data on GDP, exchange rates, money supply and the trade balance are adjusted for inflations to get inflation-adjusted variables. This will lead to a regression with the goal of determining which factors explain the variability...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Victor J. Tremblay, Committee Member, representing Economics

Creator:: Gainutdinova, Olesya
Abstract:: Using a panel data set on the local telecommunications companies reporting to the FCC for 1988-95, this paper investigates the subadditivity of the cost function, as well as technical and allocative inefficiency of the U.S. local telephone industry. The subadditivity test on the estimated translog cost function indicates that certain...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Arthur O'Sullivan, Carlos Martins-Filho, Steve Polasky and Victor Tremblay for their helpful comments

Creator:: Lu, Keyi
Abstract:: High concentration and low efficiency have plagued the Chinese banking industry since the establishment of the national banking system in China. Recently, foreign banks have been allowed to enter the Chinese market, and small and medium-sized commercial banks have expanded their market share. At the same time, Chinese bank efficiency...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: _______________________________________________________________ Victor J

Creator:: Helm, Harold Andrew
Abstract:: This study examines the relation between political parties in the United States and foreign direct investment (FDI) using a panel data gravity model of 42 countries from 1980 to 2006. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party differ on economic platforms, and the changing of relative power in government between...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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