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Creator:: Khan, Muhammad Salar
Abstract:: Tax incidence involves the study of the pass-through rate of a tax. For example, does a 1 percent increase in a sales tax on a commodity cause the consumer price to go up by exactly 1 percent (full-shifting), less than 1 percent (under-shifting), or more than 1 percent (over-shifting). Theoretical...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: Member Qinglai Meng Committee Member Brent S. Steel, School of Public

Creator:: Murzeau, Claire
Abstract:: Though research on EU law compliance is extensive, the question as to why some policy entrepreneurs are more successful than others, and why some countries comply better than others, remains largely disputed. Using a case study design of France, this thesis focuses on the type of domestic institutions that make...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Choi, Jangho
Abstract:: The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Weerasooriya, Senal A.
Abstract:: The vast majority of U.S. farm bill spending goes to nutrition assistance, on the one hand, and farm safety net programs, on the other. Although these programs are a major part of federal government expenditures, controversial and governed by a common bill, they have rarely been quantitatively analyzed together. To...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee members Dr. Bruce Weber, Dr. Qinglai Meng, Dr. Yong Chen, Dr. Robin Cross and Dr. Jimmy Yang for

Creator:: Zheng, Xiaojuan
Abstract:: Many important policy problems entail linkages among multiple economic sectors, and require the use of a general equilibrium economic modeling framework. This economic approach is appropriate when the market for any one good or service is linked to numerous other goods and services, and back to fundamental inputs such as...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee members Dr. Penelope Diebel, Dr. Qinglai Meng, Dr. Bruce Weber, and Dr. Jimmy Yang for their

Creator:: Algursan, Assem S.
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the behavior of security returns around certain events that occurred in the Saudi stock market. In the first study, we measure and analyze the reaction of security returns around a major horizontal merger that occurred in the banking industry in Saudi Arabia. The objective of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Tremblay, Dr. Rolf Färe, Dr. Qinglai Meng, Dr. Patrick Emerson, and Dr. Donald Neubaum for their

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