The present work has three main goals. Its first goal is simply to describe the language contact phenomena (LCP) occurring in a corpus of conversations among bilingual West Tarangan (WT) speakers of Dobo town in the Aru islands of southeast Maluku, Indonesia. The corpus consists…
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This dissertation rationalizes two important puzzles in international economics: the existence of currency risk premia in the interest rates of emerging markets, and the desire of firms in these environments to expose themselves to currency-risk, by undertaking unhedged, foreign…
Previous studies about the effect of remittances emphasize the direct effects and provide little explanation about the role of such monies on household borrowing activities. This study investigates the effect of remittances on the borrowing activities of households in Pakistan. …
The work selected for this portfolio comprises two language-specific case studies (‘Russian and Soviet loanwords and calques in the Czech lexicon since the beginning of the twentieth century’ and ‘Češi a slovenština’ [The Czechs and the Slovak language]), two publications on the…
The dissertation examines degrees of access to financial services by hawkers and determinants of matching patterns observed between various types of borrowers and lenders (informal, semiformal, and formal). Matches occur when endowments of certain characteristics allow borrowers…
The dissertation study aims to contribute mainly to the field of loanword phonology in general and particularly to Indonesian and its phonology that are rarely studied to date. The study investigates what consonantal and syllabic repair strategies are employed by Indonesian in a…
Randomized trials are the gold standard for assessing causal relationships between an intervention and a clinical outcome. The challenge with randomized trials is that they are very expensive to perform, often take place at different times and locations, take many years to compl…
How do local wealth shocks impact economic activity? For over two centuries, Spain has conducted a national lottery which often results in the random allocation of up to 800 million in cash to the citizens of one town. This is the only case in the world where individuals living …