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Showing 1 to 20 of 290 for “"Economic Policy"”.
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Sustainability and economic policy analysis
… of this dissertation is to provide a better economic basis for the discussion on how much natural capital the current generation should be allowed to deplete. Chapter I uses overlapping-generations models to show the effects of different assumptions about which generation owns the stock of a …
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Essays on Economic Policy Design
… each studying the design of a different economic policy. The first chapter proposes a new industrial policy designed to prevent coordination failures. The second chapter characterizes the design of efficient economic sanctions. The third chapter studies income taxation in the presence of …
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Three essays in economic policy analysis
… dissertation contains three essays relating to economic policy analysis. The first chapter is an empirical study of the employment effects of minimum wages that are indexed to inflation. The second chapter is an impact evaluation of a land rights program for herders in Mongolia. The third …
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ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC POLICY AND FIRM DYNAMICS
This dissertation examines the impact of economic policies on aggregate economy by analyzing their effects on firms' behavior. It employs theoretical and quantitative macroeconomic models to explore how these policies affect social welfare. In Chapter 1, I study the second-best optimal carbon taxes …
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Essays on Inequality, Growth, and Economic Policy
… chapters that study inequality and regional economics in a historical and development context.</p> <p>The first chapter examines regional inequality among Habsburg regions from the 19th century to today’s EU by using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to recreate historical regions …
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Topics on firm heterogeneity and economic policy
… firm behavior and how that affects the macroeconomics data. Chapter one explores the trends in competition, markups and market shares in a general equilibrium model. Over the last 30 years markups, as well as advertising expenses, have increased substantially. Moreover, there is a positive …
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Essays on learning, social influence and economic policy design
Dissertation im Cotutelle-Verfahren: Universität Bielefeld/Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Essays on Economic Policy: Income Inequality and Health Insurance
<p>This dissertation contains economic analyses of two critical social issues facing the United States at the dawn of the 21st century: income inequality and the affordability of health insurance.</p> <p>The chapter on income inequality uses the Solow Model of economic growth to model the evolution …
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Organized Labor and National Economic Policy in World War Ii
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Essays on economic policy analysis within the Bayesian econometrics framework
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Economic Policy and Development Strategy in Iran: A Macro-Simulation Approach
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405527.pdf: 4791529 bytes, checksum: a5354af36adfa312d5cc15cca6e047b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Three Essays on Political Risk, Economic Policy Uncertainty, and Hedge Fund Returns
… three empirical essays on political risk, economic policy uncertainty, and hedge fund returns, employing a sample over a period of 1990-2017. The first essay investigates the relation between political risk and hedge fund returns and assesses whether the effects of political risk on hedge …
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Reassessing New Labour's Political Economy: A study of housing and regional economic policy
This thesis is a study of housing policy and regional economic policy under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, which uses interviews, archives, and public documents to explore the spatial dimension within New Labour’s wider political economy. It focusses particularly on the work of John Prescott’s …
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Analysing the One Certainty that Rules Us All: Trade (and Economic) Policy Uncertainty
… that analyse uncertainty, specifically trade policy uncertainty, by examining its best measurement and its impacts on firms’ international and domestic operations. The first paper, “Improving the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index”, studies how best to measure trade policy uncertainty. I show that …
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Blessing or curse? : oil riches, economic policy, and the restructuringof Venzuela's plastics manufacturing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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A Humanist Perspective on Economic Policy: Ecuador's Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy, 2007-2017
This dissertation assesses Ecuador's economic policies during the Correa administration (2007 - 2017) from the perspective of human development. It aims to accomplish two objectives —one conceptual and one empirical. At the conceptual level, it brings together two intellectual traditions that are …
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Human Rights and Economic Systems : Kenya’s Economic Policy and the Realisation of Socio-Economic Rights
This thesis unpacks relationship between economic policy formulation and implementation and the realisation of socio-economic rights. The paper provides an overview of the history of the economic system and policies in Kenya. It then conducts an in-depth analysis of the economic system and policy …
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The political universe of economic policy : rising peasantry, the state and food policy in India
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1990.
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