Economists have been paying increasing attention to the study of the shadow economy in many developed and developing countries in recent years. This attention is due to the consequences and the policy implications related ...

The main purpose of the dissertation is to provide the decision makers in local governments in Colorado with a information regarding the economic characteristics of industries and firms they need to attract to their regions ...

My research examines the moral hazard phenomenon under Taiwan's National Health Insurance system theoretically as well as empirically. The objective is to investigate the effects of universal health insurance on individual ...

The economic effects of immigration have been well studied, but the majority of this research has not attempted to isolate the effects of undocumented immigration. Isolating this effect is a difficult task because dearth ...

This dissertation is comprised of five chapters discussing the importance of the measurement of household carbon dioxide emissions and the demographic determinants of those emissions in developing an understanding of ...

This dissertation explores the theory and seemingly paradoxical results between the economic literatures of contingent valuation method and risk aversion and the interdisciplinary literature of perceptions of risk, ...

This thesis analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth across US cities within a formal production function approach. Like previous analyses of economic growth--but unlike many studies of entrepreneurship--economic ...

A new method of evaluating vehicle emission standards is developed and applied to US 2007 heavy-duty diesel emission standards. The method is closely related to lifecycle analyses because it relies on the calculation of ...

Bird damage is a common and costly problem for fruit producers, who try to limit damage by using control techniques. This analysis used a survey presented to producers in five states to estimate the damage sustained to ...

Borts and Stein (1964) and Mathur and Song (2000) presented a general theoretical framework regional growth model, which shows regional growth based on labor demand and supply simultaneously. However, most previous empirical ...