This dissertation consists of three essays which apply the tools of economic analysis to the professional baseball industry. The first essay analyzes the effect of minority status on the survival of Major League Baseball managers. Using survival time analysis based on data from 1985 to 2006 it...

This dissertation is focused on topics in information diffusion and regulation, and consists of three independent essays, which correspond to the first three chapters. In the first chapter, I provide a signaling-game theoretical foundation, upon which an updated empirical framework is proposed,...

This thesis tackles the question of how organizational structure affects organizational performance from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. From the theoretical standpoint, I develop a closed-form mathematical model that builds on prior work by Sah and Stiglitz (1986) on...

One of the most important aspects in analyzing economic time series is to specify whether the observed series is generated by a stationary or non-stationary process, since most macroeconomic variables could be generated by a unit autoregressive root process. This determination as to whether or...

The recent closure of the National Textiles plant in Newcastle has again brought the issue of plant closure in the textiles clothing and footwear (TcF) industries into the public arena. While National Textiles struggled to survive during the 1990s, many other TeF firms failed. This article...

Industry Commission inquiries into the passenger motor vehicle and textiles clothing and footwear (TCF) industries have focused attention on the employment prospects of workers who are displaced as a result of structural change. The fact that older and less skilled workers face considerable...

This paper reports experiments on the possibility of formulating operational models of adaptive/evolutionary non-convex general equilibrium systems to be adoptable as a framework for social choice to implement a socially optimal growth and climate change program. To perform this task, this paper...

Currently, traditional development issues such as economic stagnation, poverty, hunger, and illness as well as newer challenges like environmental degradation and globalisation demand attention. Sustainable development, including its economic, environmental and social elements, is a key goal of...

Valuation and portfolio choice of stocks are interrelated via optimal risk management. Investors use valuation models in determining and evaluating stock values. Portfolio theory enables an optimal risk combination of the stock selected through valuation process. The portfolio optimisation...

The HOGLEX demand system (Tran Van Hoa (1983, 1985)) is integrable and flexible in the sense that it is based on utility maximization and encompasses most other well-known demand systems (e.g., LINEX, AIDS) in the literature on consumer behaviour (Laitinen et al. (1983)). HOGLEX studies to date...