This research has analyzed a set of structural elements, procedures, and behaviors within Bosnia and Herzegovina's (thereafter, "Bosnia" or "B&H") higher education that have jointly created an encouraging space for the increasing and self-serving utilization of higher education …
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This study examines to what extent how oil movements differently affect equity returns in general and sectoral levels of the GCC countries stock markets. Modeling the equity returns volatility requires using GARCH-type models. These models help to explore the pronounced differen…
Nigeria ranks as one of the most corrupt nations in the world. Its abundant natural resources are being exploited by some privileged few while the majority suffers abject poverty. In spite of a series of laws and reforms directed at waging war against corruption and campaigns ag…
There is a lack of adequate foreign direct investments (FDI) in the emerging markets of West Africa, especially in Nigeria. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that have led to inadequate FDI in Nigeria. Using the political risk model as the theoretical base, th…
This dissertation is a collection of three essays which examine issues at the intersection of international economics, political economy, and macroeconomics. A common theme which emerges in the subsequent chapters is a reliance on intuitive models of economies populated by ratio…
The goal of this paper is to inspect to what extent there is a correlation between foreign investments and the increasing levels of corruption in Moroccan companies. To narrow the scope of my paper, I have chosen to use a case of corruption that involved Royal Air Maroc and Bays…
Petroleum wealth is the lifeblood of Iraq, with the potential to promote prosperity, or become a curse that destabilizes the country and interrupts its economic and political development. The management and sharing of petroleum wealth has been at the center of economic, politica…
Despite decades of initiatives and emphasis on combatting corruption in Nigeria, systemic social change has remained elusive. I argue that the discourse of corruption itself should be called into question, specifically how it constrains possibilities for positive identity constr…
Countries whose societies are fragmented, and which are in the process of transitioning to democracies, face the question of which political system best manages social conflict. Among those political systems that deal with conflict resolution in fragmented societies is consociat…
This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay aims at establishing a statistical relationship between culture and the ease of doing business across countries. Generally, microeconomic models assume that individuals act rationally and will always aim at maximizing uti…
This descriptive study explored the concerns, beliefs, and the overall perceptions of Nigerian public/civil servants toward widespread bribery and corruption in the Nigeria workforce. Over the last 15 years, Nigeria has been cited as the most corrupt country in the world because…
Historical treatments of the Roman legal world have focused on lawyers and their elite clients, but most clients came from the middling sort, whose daily lives and legal experiences have received little attention. My dissertation draws on a little-used legal code, as well as pap…
Natural resources are easy for governments to tax, as they embody high amounts of windfall profit or “economic rent.” According to resource economics, it is optimal for governments to collect as revenues nearly all of the economic rent earned by resource extractors. For example,…
This descriptive study explored the perceptions of Nigerian police officers regarding the widespread bribery and corruption in the Nigeria Police Force. Input from police officers documenting their attitudes, perceptions of the problem and its causes, and their suggested remedie…
This thesis consists of three papers. The first one investigates and compares both current and proposed Indonesian income tax structures from the efficiency point of view, whereas in the former, earned income is taxed with different rates and interest income is taxed uniformly, …
The first essay analyzes the impact of two positive international trade policies on tropical deforestation in Indonesia: (1) a special incentives treatment under the current European Union (EU) Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for countries that meet the International Tro…
Corrupt practices in public sector are observed in every economy at some extent but they are much more common and rampant, especially, in less-developed and developing countries. The aim of this dissertation is threefold. First, we explore if there is any technique that we can u…
This dissertation investigates how societies can go from honesty to systemic corruption. It develops a multiple-equilibrium threshold corruption model, which endogenizes the corruption incentives faced by individuals. As such, it offers new insights into how corruption can sprea…
This thesis provides both theoretical and empirical evidence to identify why the effect of human capital on economic growth differs across countries. Chapter 1 provides a theoretical explanation of the weak effects of human capital on economic growth in a dynamic general equilib…