This dissertation investigates the tradeoffs between floodplain agriculture and fisheries production in the Brahmaputra river basin of Bangladesh, where both sectors are simultaneously affected by floodplain development policies. Our goal is to study the impact of development po…
This dissertation seeks to explain variation in political liberalization among three post-communist Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. These countries share several common political outcomes such as the dominance of the executive and a high degree o…
The performance of oblique detonation-wave ramjets operating at off-design conditions in investigated by means of a numerical simulation. A fully implicit, full coupled TVD numerical method employing a lower-upper symmetric Gauss-Seidel solution algorithm is used to solve the tw…
This study identifies some of the more important determinants of short-term interest rates. The period under study is 1959:2-1982:3. A static general model of the economy is first developed and then solved for the interest rate. The reduced form for interest rate suggests that i…