How do material norms and aspirations on which individual judgments of well-being are based affect the growth dynamics of an economy? Do economies that weigh very highly of these norms grow differently from those economies ...

To what extent do the credit rating agencies play a meaningful role in the American financial markets, and how has the 2008 Financial Crisis affected that role? To answer both of these questions, this study applies an ...

The main focus of this paper is to analyze whether a country-specific commodity price index and a food production index have strong explanatory power on determining the volume of United States foreign food aid flows to ...

This paper investigates the effects of hospital conversions from public or non-profit to for-profit status on various hospital level behavioral outcomes. Public and non-profit hospitals have generally been considered ...

On average, stocks that are added to a prominent stock index exhibit positive abnormal price change following inclusion. This paper examines the difference in magnitude of the inclusion effect on the stock prices of growth ...

In the past decade, mobile phone penetration in developing countries has increased significantly, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This is reflected in the upsurge in mobile phone subscriptions. The widespread use of ...

This paper examines the political determinants of central bank independence using data for 115 countries in 2003. The role of special interest groups, the extent of political dispersion, and the level electoral competitiveness ...

The resource curse is a well documented economic theory that looks to explain why developing countries, abundant with natural resources, have historically struggled to achieve sustainable development. My thesis examines ...