Why are there are increasing numbers of North Koreans inside the country willing to consume and share illegal foreign media over the last ten years, despite greater risk of capital punishment due to tighter border controls ...

This study analyzes the correlation between emigration intake and economic

China has become the United States' largest import source, second largest trading partner, and third largest export market. However, political tensions over trade relations between these two countries continue growing. ...

Following the financial crisis there were many questions raised about the proper role and efficacy of monetary and fiscal policy. One such area of debate surrounds the effects of changes to interest rates have on household ...

The Renminbi (RMB) and U.S. dollar (USD) exchange rate and its association with China-U.S. bilateral trade has been a hot issue of debate on both sides of the Pacific for many years. This paper tests the hypothesis that ...

How does an economies regime type affect corruption rates observed within a nation? Past empirical studies have looked at both regime type and corruption rates using several different techniques; however past empirical ...

The telecommunications industry has recently experienced drastic changes. The aim of these essays is to examine how the changes in the industry have transformed consumers' demand for telecommunications services and the ...

Government procurement accounts for 14 to 19 percent of world GDP, and if entirely liberalized, could increase the value of world trade by up to 30 percent. However, governments commonly reserve the majority of their ...

The first chapter studies a dynamic model of a fee-for-service healthcare system in which healthcare providers compete for patients by prescribing antibiotics. Using antibiotics limits antibiotic-treatable infections, but ...

This dissertation consists of two essays studying the impact of globalization on the inflation dynamics.