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 ...

Chapter 1 presents a global survey of Chinese immigrants, and the events and policies that contributed to their current diaspora. Chinese migration is extremely varied, ranging from students to low-skilled guest workers.

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 past decade has seen a push towards rigorous policy evaluation and new, exciting methodologies have evolved to get a better sense of how effective policy interventions are in achieving their desired outcomes. Unfortunately, ...

Established in 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is an American bilateral aid agency that enters five-year funding agreements with countries demonstrating sufficiently high scores in seventeen eligibility ...

Nearly all American states face some form of a Balanced Budget Requirement (BBR) limiting their control over fiscal policy by requiring that expenditures must not exceed revenues. During recessions, BBRs place significant ...

This paper contributes to the recent literature examining the correlation between Internet usage and civic engagement. While previous studies focused primarily on voting as a proxy for civic engagement, this paper included ...

This thesis examines the Millennium Development Goals as outlined in the Millennium Project report for the use of general budgetary support as the primary means of foreign aid delivery. Following a review of the recommendations ...

Since its inception, the Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevancy principle has limited researchers' interest in the role of financial intermediaries in macroeconomics. However, due to the spread of financial crises ...

Most studies of regionalism in the Middle East fail to distinguish among divergent types of regional formations, and make little effort to chart the developmental trajectory that regionalist projects display over time. ...