Author: Simeon DjankovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Three Essays on the Economics of Transition
Author: Simeon DjankovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Three Essays in the Economics of Transition
Author: Kiril StrahilovPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Three Essays on Macroeconomics and Economics of Transition
Author: Chun-wah LiuThree Essays on the Economics of Post-socialist Transition
Author: Kamil YılmazPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employee ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Three Essays in Development and Transition Economics
Author: Stefano PaternostroThree Essays on the Economics of Education Choice
Author: Sara A. MuehlenbeinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Education matters. As attending college, and more recently pursing a graduate education, become more common endeavours, research on how students transition though the secondary and post-secondary educational systems is both vital and informative for students and policy-makers. My research centers around these transitions in and out of educational institutions and examines how specialized pathways through the educational system impact education. Here, I present three empirical investigations that speak to the efficacy of these specialized pathways to educate our youth, aid in transitions in and out of post-secondary institutions, and support graduates in their pursuit of advanced degrees. The first essay evaluates the efficacy of competitive magnet schools, one of many specialized K-12 pathways offered by public schools. The second essay analyzes the impact of a major federal financial aid policy change on the specialized paths of graduate students pursing a master's degree and their borrowing decisions. The third essay characterizes specialized pathways related to major choice in the post-secondary transition from undergraduate studies to graduate studies.
Three Essays in Development and Transition Economics: 1. The Poverty Trap and the Dual Externality Model. 2. Structural Adjustment in Polish Firms During the Transition. 3. Wage Determination and Discrimination in Romania in the 1990s
Author: Stefano PaternostroPublisher:
ISBN: 9780591699555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
The regression results, show that: (1) the reforms brought a significant process of structural change; (2) the productivity response of state enterprises has been significantly smaller than that of private ones; (3) size matters, at least among private enterprises.
Three Essays in Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics Using Bayesian Multivariate Smooth Transition Approaches
Author: Fang GeThree Essays Regarding the Economics of Resources with Spatial-dynamic Transition Processes
Author: James S. GoodenbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This dissertation considers questions about the economics of resources exhibiting spatial-dynamic transition processes, specifically, invasive species and wildfires. These topics are increasingly important due to their large damage potentials and the increasing management budgets by governments, but the economics literature has only recently begun to incorporate both space and time into its analysis. The three essays in this manuscript tackle problems using empirics and numerical modelling in order to continue to expand the economic understanding of spatial-dynamic processes. The first chapter empirically analyzes the decision of land developers to build single family homes near lakes invaded with Eurasian watermilfoil, an aquatic invasive plant. A duration model of land conversion is utilized to discover the change in likelihood that a single-family housing unit will be developed after the arrival of Eurasian watermilfoil. The results show a significant decrease in the likelihood that both lakefront and near lake properties will be developed into homes following a Eurasian watermilfoil invasion. This is shown to have a sizable impact on the number of houses constructed near invaded lakes and suggests that uninvaded lakes are most likely being overdeveloped. The second chapter develops a spatial-dynamic model of the optimal control of a general invasive species which is actively spreading throughout a landscape. Along with explicitly allowing the invasion to spread over space, this model permits the population to grow in intensity as well. It is discovered that optimal intensities of invasion vary over space and that ignoring the natural heterogeneity in the landscape leads to suboptimal management decisions. The inefficiency of these decision is shown to increase as the heterogeneity in ecological carrying capacity increases. The model is then applied to the Asian cap invasion in the Mississippi River basin and shows that the current strategy of preventing Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes may be optimal. Overall, this project showcases the importance of recognizing spatial heterogeneity in ecological carrying capacities along with delivering strong evidence that control efforts need to be spatially targeted to most efficiently manage a spreading invasive species. Finally, the third chapter considers the fact that some spatial-dynamic processes, like wildfires, spread at different rates across landscapes that contain a variety of economically valued patches. Spread rates effect the costs of management, while the values of different properties influence the damages associated with a burn. This chapter incorporates these complexities into a spatial-dynamic model of optimal wildfire management and finds efficient solutions for controlling multifaceted fire scenarios. Suppression of wildfires is shown to be more likely in areas where the economic values are spatially clustered, thereby allowing a minimum amount of control to have the maximum benefit. It is also shown that spatial location with respect to the initial ignition location is important in determining optimal control strategies in heterogeneous spread scenarios.
The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions
Author: Martin ShubikPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262693110
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
This first volume in a three-volume exposition of Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics" explores a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. This is the first volume in a three-volume exposition of Martin Shubik's vision of "mathematical institutional economics"--a term he coined in 1959 to describe the theoretical underpinnings needed for the construction of an economic dynamics. The goal is to develop a process-oriented theory of money and financial institutions that reconciles micro- and macroeconomics, using as a prime tool the theory of games in strategic and extensive form. The approach involves a search for minimal financial institutions that appear as a logical, technological, and institutional necessity, as part of the "rules of the game." Money and financial institutions are assumed to be the basic elements of the network that transmits the sociopolitical imperatives to the economy. Volume 1 deals with a one-period approach to economic exchange with money, debt, and bankruptcy. Volume 2 explores the new economic features that arise when we consider multi-period finite and infinite horizon economies. Volume 3 will consider the specific role of financial institutions and government, and formulate the economic financial control problem linking micro- and macroeconomics.