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The Influence of State Owned Banks on Private Savings
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Existing research on the determinants of private saving rates focuses on the effects of socio-economic factors and financial development. These studies do not provide a comprehensive picture of the influence of government-owned ...
Are Large-scale Poverty Alleviation Programmes Implemented with Electoral Goals in Mind? A Study of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Impact evaluations of poverty alleviation programmes often do not take into account political placement and implementation effort while estimating effectiveness. This can give rise to biased estimates if politicians make ...
The Effects of the MASAF III Public Works Program on the Likelihood of Owning a Household Enterprise in Malawi
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This study estimates the indirect effects of the MASAF III Public Works Program (PWP) on the likelihood of a household to run a business in Malawi. To do this, the study uses crosssectional data from the IHS3 nationally ...
How Does Currency Mismatch Affect Resilience to an External Shock? Evidence From the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
(Georgetown University, 2013)
In the aftermath of the 1990s global financial crises, excessive foreign currency borrowing emerged as the common denominator in predicting the likelihood of a crisis as well as an economy's capacity to withstand one. ...
DOES RAISING TAXES ON THE WEALTHY HURT THE ECONOMY? THE EFFECTS OF TOP MARGINAL INCOME TAX RATES ON GDP GROWTH IN A SAMPLE OF OECD COUNTRIES
(Georgetown University, 2013)
This thesis assesses whether marginal income tax rates for top earners have an effect on a country's GDP per capita growth. The paper builds upon previous research on the relationship between tax rates and economic growth ...
The Role of Financial Liberalization in Consumption Booms
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Consumption booms, defined as unusual upsurge in a country's real private consumption expenditures, are often perceived as dangerous macroeconomic events because of their detrimental effects on home goods prices, the balance ...
The Impact of Government Regulatory Behavior on the Transition to 3G Mobile Technology-A Cross-country Study
(Georgetown University, 2014)
The transition to 3G mobile technology varies across countries with respect to the timing of 3G's initial entry to a county and the diffusion of 3G technology enabled services. Past studies have demonstrated demographic ...
CORRUPTION AND FDI: A REGIONAL STUDY OF DEVELOPING SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES
(Georgetown University, 2014)
This paper examines the empirical relationship between corruption and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Difference General Method of Moments (GMM) is utilized to take advantage of ...
The Effect of Country-Level Income on Domestic Terrorism: A Worldwide Analysis of the Difference between Lone-Wolf and Group Affiliated Domestic Terrorism
(Georgetown University, 2014)
Despite vast literature examining causes of terrorism, domestic terrorism has only recently begun to be studied as an entity unto itself. It has long been postulated that a country's wealth influences its domestic terrorism ...
The RMB USD Exchange Rate and Its Association with Bilateral Trade
(Georgetown University, 2015)
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 ...