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The dissertation studies three seemly independent topics on environmental economics, but they share the same theme: the reactions of local governments and firms on promotional incentives and environmental regulations in China.The first chapter examines whether China’s Two Control Zone policy...
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the world earning a positive net investment income. To rationalize this phenomenon, I propose a different theory about the … dollar exchange rate. In the model, world financial intermediaries demand US safe assets for their convenience value, but US … intermediaries do not demand foreign safe assets. Under an aggregate symmetric financial shock, the rest of the world buys more safe …
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This dissertation lies at the intersection of environmental economics and development economics. It includes three essays that empirically examine the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on agriculture in both developed and developing countries.The first essay explores how the...
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1. I develop a two-city model to explain a new stylized fact: high-income cities specialize in income-elastic sectors. The model has heterogeneous income elasticities and mobile agents, and either heterogeneous fundamental productivities or heterogeneous amenities generate the specialization...
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matters for policymaking. But this research has focused on OECD countries and devoted much less attention to most of world … institutions should curtail or extinguish any effect of governments’ ideologies in the rest of the world. My dissertation overcomes … less from the rest of the world as often presumed and that a lack of state capacity and democracy does not extinguish the …
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In this dissertation, I study the changes in external liabilities and assets of emerging market economies since the early-2000s and the following implications of the changes for the financial stability and the optimal policies of the economies. In chapter 1, I construct a dataset, which measures...
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the world. …
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During industry change, managers and entrepreneurs often must make strategic investment decisions well in advance of knowing when and how new technologies and business models would reshape the industry landscape. Scholars have emphasized the important role of managers’ forward-looking...
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This dissertation advances research on the role of states in shaping the global financial network. The relationship between states and financial globalization is complex and multifaceted. States employ various economic tools, such as secondary sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), and...
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