This is an in-depth investigation of current fundraising issues for nonprofits of color. The aim is to explore why nonprofit organizations of color (those nonprofits that are headed by a person of color and serve a specific minority group) are not getting as many philanthropic dollars as their...

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...

ABSTRACTMIN, KYUNG-SEOL, An Empirical Investigation of Lending to Small Businesses. (Under the direction of Douglas K. Pearce and Karlyn Mitchell.) This dissertation analyzes lenders' two important decisions (loan approval decision and loan rate decision) in their loan evaluation procedures...

Este documento estima el efecto de la calidad de las instituciones en el patrón de especialización productiva observado en España en el período 1999-2014 a nivel local. La investigación parte de la observación de que la actividad económica en España muestra un fuerte patrón de...

Las decisiones de inversión son generalmente irreversibles y podrían verse afectadas por problemas de cautividad y oportunismo. Un marco de inversión estable necesita, por tanto, de instituciones de ejecución sólidas. Este documento analiza datos a nivel de empresa para estudiar el impacto...

FSU undergraduate Honors Thesis