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Essays on Carry Trade and Exchange Rate Forecasting
(2013-09-11)This thesis is the combination of three papers on carry trade strategies and exchange rate forecasting. The rst paper evaluates the performance of carry trade strategies with implied Taylor rule interest rate di erentials ... -
Essays on Drug and Alcohol Policies in the United States
(2015-05)This dissertation consists of two essays that explore the unintended consequences of drug and alcohol control policies in the United States. They both examine policy changes at the state level using a difference-in-differences ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Forecasting and the Business Cycle
(2012-05)This dissertation consists of two essays on forecasting real GDP growth and predicting recessions in the United States. In the first essay, we create a new indicator of economic activity based on a business cycle pattern, ... -
Essays on Macroeconomic Volatility and the Great Moderation
(2012-05)This dissertation is a collection of two essays on the macroeconomic volatility and the Great Moderation. The first essay examines the causes of the Great Moderation in United States, while the second essay takes an ... -
Essays on Migration, Remittance, and Welfare
(2017-05)This dissertation is comprised of two essays. The first essay analyzes the aggregate income shocks absorbing and welfare improving roles of remittances in emerging economies. I develop a model to derive testable implications ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets
(2014-12)This dissertation examines the interaction between macroeconomic aggregates and financial markets in two different essays. The expansion of derivatives markets has prompted interest in estimating options-implied measures ... -
Essays on Monetary Policy in Israel
(2017-05)The current consensus is that central bank communication in the form of forward guidance has a profound effect on monetary policy effectiveness. Forward guidance affects private sector expectations about the future path ... -
ESSAYS ON POLICY EVALUATION WITH ENDOGENOUS ADOPTION
(2011-12)Over the last decade, experimental and quasi-experimental methods have been favored by researchers in empirical economics, as they provide unbiased causal estimates. However, when implementing a program, it is often not ... -
Essays on Sovereign Debt and Default
(2014-05)This dissertation is comprised of two essays focused on the central theme of sovereign default. In the first essay, I detail a method to improve forecasting models of sovereign default by evaluating the impact of a country's ... -
Essays on Team-based Incentives
(2012-05)Over the past few decades, team-based incentives are used by more and more organizations to motivate their agents to exert effort. The usage of team incentives creates many challenges, especially the “free-riding” problem. ... -
Essays on the Impact of Clean Water on Human Capital and Productivity
(2016-05)My dissertation investigates the effect of access to clean water on human capital. The first chapter examines the effect of municipal provisions of clean water---installation of water filtration plants---on school enrollment ... -
ESSAYS ON THE LONG –RUN IMPACTS OF THE GREAT CHINESE FAMINE ON HUMAN CAPITAL
(2012-12)This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first essay, I study the long run effect of the Chinese famine on gender difference using a new and high-quality dataset-2004 MEDOW. By comparing the health and education ... -
Essays on the Processes of Economic Growth
(2016-05)This dissertation consists of three essays on the processes of economic growth. In the first chapter I show how growth behaves when protesting occurs. I continue with the topic of protests in the second chapter, where I ... -
Essays on Trade Liberalization, Financial Integration and Development: Poland in the EU, Investment in Europe, and HIV Infection in Zambia
(2015-05)This dissertation is composed of three essays. In the first essay, Poland in the EU: Closer is Better, I study the spatial heterogeneity in outcomes of trade liberalization in Poland. I find that the 2004 EU accession of ... -
Estimation of The Source Mechanisms of Microseismic Events from a Barnett Shale play
(2013-05)The waveforms generated during hydraulic fracturing in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs contain information about the nature of the failures that gave rise to the observed wave fields. Inverting for the moment tensor ... -
Etching of Si and SiNx by Beams Emanating from Inductively Coupled CH3F/O2 and CH3F/CO2 Plasmas
(2014-08)In advanced microelectronic device fabrications, novel gate electrode designs for field effect transistors (FinFETs) require highly anisotropic and selective silicon nitride (SiNx) etching over Si and/or SiO2. SiNx substrates ... -
Eustressed or Distressed? Combining Physiology with Observation in Stress Studies
(2015-11-30)In this thesis, I describe a novel method to conduct stress studies via the combination of a physiological and an observational information channel. The method enables the quantification of aroused emotional states and ... -
EVALUATING ALONG-STRIKE VARIATION USING THIN-BEDDED FACIES ANALYSIS, UPPER CRETACEOUS FERRON NOTOM DELTA, UTAH
(2014-08)This study evaluates the vertical and along-strike variability of thin-bedded delta-front and prodelta facies of the Upper Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta Complex in Central Utah. Primary initiation processes that form thin ... -
EVALUATING BACKGROUND, CONTEXTUAL, AND MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE PERSISTENCE AND ATTRITION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2012-12)Retaining and graduating students has become an issue of widespread concern among today’s colleges and universities. Current research suggests that, on average, four-year colleges and universities in the United States ... -
Evaluating guilt and shame in an expressive writing alcohol intervention
(Alcohol, 2015-08)Expressive writing interventions have shown positive physical and psychological health benefits over time, with the presumed mechanism being emotional disclosure. However, work utilizing expressive writing in behavior ...