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Title: Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
Author: Nelson, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Economics
Description: From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...

Title: THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL CHANGE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SOCCER TEAMS – AN EVENT STUDY ON THE TWO TOP TIER SWEDISH DIVISIONS
Author: Roskors, Andre
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This research examines the impact of managerial changes on Swedish soccer teams from the first and second Swedish soccer league. The research is conducted similar to an event study and regression analysis is employed to investigate the impact of t...

Title: THE IMPACT OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE ON HOUSING PRICES AND HOMEOWNERSHIP IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Author: Ludden, Thomas
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Geodesy, Economics
Description: At the end of the last century, the U.S. housing market was volatile. The average price of housing increased by 50 percent, while the national rate of loans entering foreclosure was 0.3 percent. Across the nation, local housing markets displayed u...

Title: THE IMPACT OF STRESS TESTING ON THE SYSTEMIC RISK OF BANK HOLDING COMPANIES
Author: Konstantopoulos, Theodoros
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The impact of the financial crisis of 2007-2008 on the global banking system raised concerns regarding the capital adequacy of banks. While the banks were already conducting internal stress tests before the financial crisis that was not enough to ...

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE BREXIT REFERENDUM ON VARIOUS WORLD STOCK MARKETS
Author: Arora, Jasleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The event study methodology is employed to analyze the impact of the British decisionto leave the European Union on various stock market indexes, namely Australia -ALL ORDINARIES; Canada - S&P TSX Composite Index; India - BSE Sensex; NewZealand - ...

Title: Tax Structure and Economic Growth: An OECD Analysis
Author: Raynor, Luke
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide an analytical analysis on how different tax structures of OECD countries affect their rates of economic growth from the period 1980-2004. This thesis attempts to gather results so that governments may bette...

Title: The Economic Impact of Spatial Income Inequality
Author: Li, Huiping
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Economics, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Spatial income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income across communities. This study broadens the concept to include residential segregation, central city-suburban income disparity, and government fragmentation. Combining the comp...

Title: The Effect of Child Access Prevention Laws on Unintentional Shootings Perpetrated by Children
Author: Nussbaum, Sofia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: Holding gun owners responsible when a child accesses a firearm is one of the reasons Child Access Prevention Laws emerged. Previous studies have focused on fatal shootings in which the victim is a child without identifying the age of the perpetrat...

Title: The Effects of Post-Financial Crisis Banking Regulations on Bank Lending and Regional Economic Growth
Author: Schorno, Rachel
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: Following the financial crisis, regulations were implemented by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to monitor banks and reduce the probability of future banking crises. This dissertation uses bank and macroeconomic data to analyz...

Title: The Incentives and Effects of Unnecessary Emergency Ambulance Transport
Author: Deziel, Jackson
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: In the EMS field, the problem of low-acuity, non-emergency individuals who summon an emergency ambulance for simple transport to a local hospital is ever-present. Any person may summon an emergency ambulance and receive transport for the most mino...

Title: The Influence of Local Professional Sports Teams on Bureaucratic Productivity
Author: Readhead, William
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Public administration
Description: The correlation between state government output and the performance of local sports teams is used to assess the degree and direction of the relationship. The goal is to identify a nationally preferred sport using granular data (state level vs nati...

Title: The Middle Segment of the Society and Socioeconomic Polarization: A Multidimensional Approach Applied to Colombia
Author: QUINONES, MAURICIO
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Area studies
Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the relevance for Colombia of analyzing the middle segment of the society – as the core concept – and socioeconomic polarization due to its linkage with the middle segment of the society, with a m...

Title: The Price of Control: An empirical investigation of the control premium in M&A transactions, pre and post the financial crisis of 2007/2008.
Author: Dietz, David
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: This paper investigates the control premium in change of control transactions. Ithas taken a large-scale approach to the subject while also adding a pre- and post-crisisperspective. A regression model is built based on financial theory and previou...

Title: The Value of Prosthetic Rehabilitation for Current and Potential Lower Limb Prosthesis Users
Author: Miller, Taavy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences, Health services administration
Description: The goal of this dissertation is to inform clinicians, researchers and policy makers of the potential value of prosthesis intervention for individuals who experience a lower limb amputation. In addition, this dissertation supports the call for mor...

Title: The determinants of household violence
Author: Wienke, Jennifer
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: Family violence is a pervasive social issue, which warrants attention from policy makers. Theories such as nested ecological theory and general strain theory suggest that family violence increases during times of economic hardship. Even so, histor...

Title: VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
Author: Canales, Kristine Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Government policy, Economics
Description: Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...

Title: Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
Author: Cekic, Nejra
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Political science, Economics
Description: What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...