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Estimating the shadow economy in Jordan: causes, consequences, and policy implications
Author(s):Alkhdour, Rajeh
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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 ...
Production function estimations and policy implications
Author(s):Khreisat, Mohammad Abdallah
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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 ...
Moral hazard in health care: case study of Taiwan's national health insurance
Author(s):Lin, Chun-Wei
Date Issued:2012
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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 ...
Effects of undocumented immigration on the employment opportunities of low skill natives in the United States, The
Author(s):Schultz, Russell W.
Date Issued:2012
Format:born digital; masters theses
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 ...
Household carbon dioxide emissions in the United States: the role of demographic change
Author(s):Underwood, Anthony J.
Date Issued:2013
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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 ...
Measuring values for environmental public goods: incorporating gender and ethnic social effects into stated-preference value-elicitation methods
Author(s):Jones Ritten, Chian
Date Issued:2011
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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, ...
Entrepreneurship, information, and economic growth
Author(s):Bunten, Devin
Date Issued:2010
Format:masters theses
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 ...
Economic efficiency of US 2007 heavy-duty diesel emission standards: a lifecycle-based approach
Author(s):Anderson, Aaron
Date Issued:2010
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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 ...
Economic benefits of bird control in U.S. cherry production, The
Author(s):Elser, Julie
Date Issued:2013
Format:born digital; masters theses
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 ...
Does trade cause growth across trading blocs?
Author(s):Marturana, Michael A.
Date Issued:2009
Format:masters theses
Does international trade influence the growth rate of income per capita across trading blocs? Many empirical studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of international trade on economic growth. This paper investigates ...