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Business Influence in Public Policymaking: A Case Study of the Loan Guarantee Program Using an Assemblage-Theoretic Framework
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis investigates the influence of business on the public policymaking process in the United States. A framework is proposed for categorizing policymaking contexts and mechanisms of influence, synthesized from ...
Structural and Ideological Barriers that Perpetuate the Implementation Gap in South Korean Women’s Empowerment Policie
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis examines the structural and cultural barriers that perpetuate the implementation gap in South Korean women’s empowerment policies while asking the primary research question: despite having a strong women's ...
Japan’s Refugee Policy: Sharing the Burden of Human Security
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This thesis asks: why does Japan accept a low number of refugees despite its responsibility to contribute to global peace as a member of G7, its willingness to participate in other forms of humanitarian assistance, and its ...
The Differential Effects of Development Aid and Democracy Aid on Conflict Alleviation
(Georgetown University, 2018)
How effective is aid in reducing conflicts? Are there any differential effects of development aid and democracy aid? This study builds on the neo-liberal theory of inter-democratic peace and that economic development leads ...
Production and Consumption in Knowledge Market: Solving the Old Puzzles with New Techniques
(Georgetown University, 2018)
The first chapter investigates the drivers of citation counts of academic papers. I match yearly citation data, full texts, and yearly author data of 4,482 papers in the top 5 economics journals, and use textual analysis ...
Student Loan Debt and Household Financial Hardship: Analysis Using the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Existing research documents negative economic impacts from student loan debt (SLD) on household financial well-being. Using the household-level Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances dataset from 2016, I analyze ...
Impact of Foreign Investor Participation on Emerging Market Local Currency Government Bond Yields
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Along with the development of local currency (LCY) government bond markets in emerging markets (EM) foreign investors’ participation in these markets have increased. Higher foreign investor participation has resulted in ...
The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Income Inequality
(Georgetown University, 2018)
This paper explores the impact of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation on income inequality. Although traditional scholarship has focused on the impact of institutional arrangements on a selection of economic ...
Essays on Economic and Education Reforms in Developing Countries
(Georgetown University, 2018)
Economic restructuring changes the distribution of labor earnings and family incomes, with
An Empirical Study of the Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on U.S.-China Trade Deficit
(Georgetown University, 2018)
With a recent trend of possible trade war between the United States and China, international trade has become a hot topic and played a more important role in political world as well as for academic research. This study ...