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Essays in international finance and search theory.

Wicas, Nelson Walter - 1992

This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real interest rate and commodity price shocks. Using an optimal stopping framework, the debtor country's optimal...

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Role Model Performance Effects on Development of Entrepreneurial Career Preference

Scherer, Robert F.; Adams, Janet S.; Carley, Susan; … - 1989

Critics of the trait approach to the study of entrepreneurship have called for adaptation of theory from other … entrepreneurial career preference is developed. Social Learning Theory was used to investigate the link between a parent role model …

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Exchange rate pass-through: Theoretical and empirical issues

Bishop, Paul Charles - 1994

This dissertation examines several theoretical and empirical issues associated with exchange rate pass-through, defined as the percentage change in import prices for a one percent change in the exchange rate. The theoretical sections of this study posit a conjectural variations model of...

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Essays on differential information economies

Hahn, Guangsug - 1996

In the first essay, we analyze the necessary and sufficient conditions for coalitional Bayesian Nash implementation. A mechanism coalitionally implements a social choice set if any outcome of the social choice set can be achieved as a coalitional Bayesian Nash equilibrium of a mechanism and vice...

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Three essays on increasing returns to scale and international trade theory

Tang, Min - 1989

In this thesis, we consider the trading world economy with some firms exhibiting increasing returns to scale technology. We focus on the problems of existence of equilibrium, gains from trade and the effects of increasing returns in developing countries.

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The role of fiscal policy in inertially inflated Argentina

Arce M., Daniel G. - 1992

of the social conflict theory of inflation and creates cyclical indices of fiscal stance for developing countries …In the second essay a game-theoretic model is presented which formalizes the role of deficits in the conflict theory of … theory of inflation. Estimates are made for a hybrid of the cyclically neutral budget which reflects a macroeconomic target …

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Sources of differential relative price variability: An examination of the microfoundations of inflation

Jaggi, Arvind - 1991

The central issue dividing neoclassical and Keynesian economists is how markets react to perturbations to longrun equilibria. The standard resolution of this controversy is that neoclassical responses are appropriate to competitive markets, while Keynesian responses better describe oligopolistic...

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Existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria with public goods

Hamano, Tadashi - 1989

We examine the existence of marginal cost pricing equilibria under non-convex technology. We formalize marginal cost prices in terms of Clarke's normal cone.

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Sequential analysis of duration data with application to "reemployment bonus" experiments

Bilias, Yannis - 1995

Suitable methodology and an asymptotic theory for the sequential analysis of time-to-event (duration) data is developed … on martingale theory. Instead a modern empirical process theory is used to deal with the underlying two …-dimensional character of the problem. A very general treatment of the large sample theory with minimum technicalities is made developed. …

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Tax evasion and the demand for currency in developing countries: A panel study of African countries

Koyame, Mungbalemwe - 1996

The purpose of this dissertation is to empirically analyze the relationship between tax rates and tax evasion and to measure the magnitude of tax evasion in several African countries. I build a taxpayer behavioral model based on income tax evasion by combining the utility maximization approach...

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