This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the central role of economy, money and debt in the oeuvre of Shmuel Yosef Agnon—1966 Nobel laureate in literature—by offering a reading that combines perspectives from economic theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative…
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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the change in the place of the IMF in American foreign economic policy toward Egypt between 1985 and 1998. It was found that the United States intervened in the IMF-Egyptian negotiations of the 1987 and 1991 agreements, but did not…
This thesis analyses the impact of tax policy on firms' leverage ratios in a balanced panel of 129 medium-sized listed companies from II European countries from 1993 to 2005. A general model of company leverage is applied within which King's tax ratios are used to capture tax po…
This dissertation is a legal history of debt and economic life in the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It draws on materials from Bahrain, Muscat, Bombay, Zanzibar and London to examine how members of an ocean-wide commercial society constructed re…
The introduction establishes the main purpose of the dissertation as an investigation of the use of debt as a metaphor for sin in the Gospel of Matthew, particularly in the exegesis of the Lord's Prayer (Matt 6:9-15), the teaching on anger (Matt 5:21-26) and the parable of the u…
While there have been studies on capital structure and corporate strategy, limited research has considered the unique characteristics that influence the capital structures and corporate strategies of Saudi Arabian manufacturing firms. This thesis, therefore, intends to enrich th…
The deregulation of global financial markets has increased the propensity for economies, especially those in the developing world, to experience fiscal crises. Scholars have noted the potential for these crises to pit the interests of market actors against the social demands of …
This dissertation examines the intersections and tensions between religion and economy in Dostoevsky and Melville’s fiction. I argue that Christian theology of the body—as the site of both salvation and economic production—is at the center of their concern. These two profoundly …
What are the consequences of expanded US border and immigration enforcement in the Americas? How do migrant policing, apprehension, and removal alter livelihoods, landscapes, and wellbeing in migrant-sending communities? Despite decades of mass apprehension and removal of undocu…
This dissertation is a collection of research on risky behaviors such as criminal activity and substance abuse. These behaviors deserve the attention of economists because they can generate large social costs, which are often due to externalities. For example, a criminal act can…
This dissertation traces the meaning of the idea that usurers sell time through 12th- and 13th-century Christian debates about the ethics of usury in the intellectual milieu of the University of Paris. According to a frequently recurring argument, the problem with usury is that …