This research investigates the effect of the 2008-2009 financial crisis on Pennsylvania
postsecondary education endowments and how different types of schools (private, public,
four year, and two year) altered their ...
This thesis seeks to examine the role, if any, that the sex ratio plays as a determinant of the personal saving rate using a simple OLS analysis of 33 countries. Results suggest that, when included in a model with other ...
Asian economies have experienced two devastating financial crises in the last two
decades: Asian financial crisis and the recent global financial crisis. This paper investigates the case of Thailand and Korea. From being ...
Higher education has over time, become increasingly important to success in the job market.
Not only are employers looking for more ways to differentiate between applicants, but jobs are
becoming more technically difficult ...
Using Bankscope data, this thesis seeks to analyze the determinants of commercial bank profitability in Poland and Slovakia during 1999-2011 and shed light on whether profitability was impacted differently during the ...
The role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is more and more critical in a globalized world. China's Outward FDI (OFDI) has received increasing interest in empirical research since it started surging in 2004. China's OFDI ...
This paper examines economic growth in Tunisia and the role that women have played in that
growth. Economic growth is evaluated by considering contributions to GDP growth, changes in
productivity and employment ratio and ...
The purpose of this paper is to determine which family, dwelling, and geographic characteristics affect household mobility in America. The information for this analysis was collected from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. ...
The Republic of Slovakia experienced strong economic growth during the first decade in
the 21st century. Nevertheless, this growth was unable to substantially decrease persistent unemployment in certain regions. Interestingly, ...
This study is an analysis of the determinants of stock market participation. It looks broadly at the literature concerning stock market participation determinants and limits it to the elderly population in the United States ...
Not since the days of FDR
and the Great Depression
has a president been
reelected with unemployment over 7%.
Conventional wisdom,
history and analysts alike told us that if
unemployment is high, it
spells the end ...
In a country with access to one of the cleanest municipal water supplies in the world, the
proliferation of the bottled water industry in the past twenty years in the United States has had profound impacts on the environment, ...
One of the most important questions in development economics is: who benefits from economic growth? The present study attempts to answer this question, with regard to one country in particular: Guatemala. Some of the ...
Driven by the desire to reduce the currency mismatch associated with
foreign-currency borrowing, Emerging Market countries have developed their local
currency bond markets over the past decade. As foreign investors have ...
This paper investigates two explanations for underpricing of initial public offering (IPO), which are related to information asymmetries in different stages of the IPO. The first part of this paper argues that the marketing ...
Leasing represents a large worldwide industry. The goal of this paper is to determine which macroeconomic indicators have an impact on the leasing industry and what the relationship is between them. Using previous literature ...
The college rankings issued by U.S. News & World Report have become of considerable concern to the field of higher education. Previous research has found
significant impacts between an institution’s rank and its admissions ...
This paper investigates the effect of the National Bank of Slovakia's (NBS) intervention in the SKK/EUR foreign exchange market from 1999 through 2007 (the time period covering Slovakia's preparation for EU accession and ...