International marketing is growing in volume and importance for firms. Consequently, the impact of international marketing on society has also taken on additional importance. Distribution through international marketing channels, often referred to as exporting and importing, is the most...

This study deals with the identification of demand for money function in Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela. This is important in the study of monetary policy as a tool for influencing macroeconomic variables in these countries.

As networks improve and new services emerge, questions arise that affect service deployments and network choices. The Internet is arguably a successful example of a network shared by many services. However, combining heterogeneous services on the same network need not always be the right answer,...

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...

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...

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...

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.