ABSTRACT

This thesis provides some new evidence on the determinants of firm level trade policy preferences. Using a firm and country level data set covering middle and low-income countries between the years of 2006 and 2010, this ...

Despite the importance of firm level training in the MENA region for alleviating the issues of high youth unemployment rates, skills mismatches in the labor market, and the long transition periods between the education and ...

Chapter 1 explores the impact of banks' exposure to market liquidity risk through wholesale funding on their supply of credit during the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. The methodology minimizes the impact of confounding ...

The following three essays discuss dynamics under uncertainty. The first two chapters discuss the question of how one agent can learn about another in an environment with repeated interaction. The third chapter centers ...

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 ...

One of the objectives of public policy is to attempt to address the unintended consequences of our individual and collective activities as a society. Various federal agencies are charged with regulating these "externalities" ...

The political rhetoric on immigration in the United States often misrepresents U.S.-Mexico migration trends by focusing on the flow of Mexican immigrants into the United States. The reality is that many migrants return to ...

This thesis examines how well neoclassical open economy growth models can replicate the qualitative features of the time paths of an emerging economy during its development stages. In particular we look at the trends in ...