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Purpose: This study sets out to employ a cross-cultural perspective to explore alternative explanations in the development of the online repurchase intentions model. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed constructs of alternative models deal with key online consumer behavior variables such...

Chapters one and two of the dissertation investigate the effects of political disagreement on macroeconomic outcomes. I introduce a model of governments with heterogeneous preferences over the composition of consumption between private and public goods alternating in power. Unable to commit to...

Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...

This dissertation consists of two essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes.The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2011. Major:Economics. Advisor: Patrick Kehoe. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 119 pages, appendices A-B.

This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...