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Monopoly Power in the Peruvian Banking Industry: (1990-1995)
The core of the thesis tries to determine the extent to which oligopolization constitutes a problem in the determination of interest rates in Peru. To do this, it uses an econometric model
to test the level of competition ...
Watching Hate -- Social Instability as a Factor for the Presence of Hate Groups in US Counties (thesis)
Hate groups in the United States form a pressing problem and have been examined in quantitative economic and sociological research. In this paper, I analyze predictors of hate groups, particularly age-adjusted mortality ...
Do Goods and Financial Market Frictions Explain the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle? (thesis)
Feldstein and Horioka (1980) argue that in a world of perfect capital mobility, if one regressed investment on savings, the coefficient would be 0. When they found coefficients of between 0.87 and 0.91, they concluded that ...
Automation and Family: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility Rates (thesis)
I exploit variation in the job composition of US local labor markets to determine how automation affects familial outcomes from 1980 to 2019 and look at employment, marriage, divorce, and fertility rates as outcomes. ...
Combatant Composition and Peace Durability: A Historical and Empirical Dive into Rebel Group Fragmentation as a Determinant of Conflict Relapse
Nearly all regions of the world have observed repeated cycles of violence involving anti-state militias and domestic or international terrorist groups since the end of World War II. A 2020 UN Human Rights Office report on ...
International Commodity Agreements: Key to Development?
This paper has attempted to bring the methods and purposes of international commodity agreements into focus and to thus discover whether they are worth the energy which the poor countries might exert to form them. I have ...
Roads to a Market System: A Study of Economic Transition Policies in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
After summarizing the economic progress in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic between 1989 and 1994, I will conclude the thesis by returning to the two points emphasized in the
introduction: First, in several instances ...
Ideological Change and Governmental Growth
A fruitful approach seems to be an examination of ideological trends. As I have shown, this approach, when applied specifically to agriculture, yields valuable insight. It seems likely that the same approach, when applied ...
In Search of a Good Job: Mobility in a Dual Labor Market
Dual labor market theory developed in the late 1960 's as economists tried to explain how and why labor market outcomes deviated from neoclassical expectations. The theory held that the labor market was divided into a ...
Initial Public Offerings Across Business Cycles
A vast literature exists pertaining to the prediction of stock performance, though a consistent pattern has yet to be found. The efficient market hypothesis provides one possible explanation. IPOs are different, however, ...