In this dissertation we tested the absolute version of PPP in six Asian countries: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines for the current float. Standard unit root tests and cointegration techniques are used to test PPP in the Asian countries. No ev…
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Today's competitive job market demands a technologically savvy workforce of well-trained engineers and mathematicians. Teachers hold a unique position to identify and develop their students' gifts and talents to become future professionals in these fields. This study examined th…
In this dissertation I investigate the relevance of regime theory to the international efforts at preventing nuclear proliferation. International regimes are defined as governing arrangements through which states manage their relations in regard to specific multinational issue-a…
This study examines Luise Rinser's travel reports and diaries on the Soviet Union, North Korea, Iran, and Indonesia, writings that have to date only received marginal attention. While Rinser's novels have earned her the reputation of a self-absorbed, subjective fiction writer, w…
Leading indicators have been a successful forecasting tool adopted by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) since the work of Burns and Mitchell (1946). In recent years, new econometric models such as dynamic factor models have been used to explore more formally potent…
This thesis is a collection of three essays on industrial productivity growth in Asia. The first two essays analyze an unbalanced panel data set on 606 Chinese machinery factories in Guangdong province, from 1980 to 1991. We find rapid although volatile TFP growth in these facto…
Despite theoretical and empirical evidence of the positive effects of a developed financial sector on long run growth, governments in many developing countries still repress the financial sector. Roubini and Sala-i-Martin (1992) argue that the main reason governments suppress th…
A cross-cultural feminist study of writings about motherhood and colonialism, this dissertation analyzes three contemporary literary works of women of color dealing with the maternal experience of enslaved and colonized women. The works are Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) set in …
This dissertation analyzes relations between economic performance, elite transformations, and regime stability in the five countries that were seriously affected by the Asian economic crisis: Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines. I subject an array of …
Accounting valuation has been an important topic in accounting research since the 1960s. However, few prior studies have investigated valuation models in Asian stock markets. This dissertation examines the value relevance of accounting information in seven Asian countries: Hong …
The Asian crisis of 1997 was preceded by a period of massive capital inflows to Asian countries. When the crisis hit, these inflows became a massive capital outflow. This reversal, in terms of domestic economic output, cost these countries tremendously. Using the financial accou…
The goal of my dissertation is to suggest a theoretical basis for witness-oriented worship in the Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK). In general, the witness of the PCK is becoming powerless and is thus facing a time of stagnation. Even though the members of the church do the wo…
This project is reflective of an interdisciplinary approach which includes spiritual, historical and theological insights into the events connected to the Genesee Abbey's first fifty years. While the work is primarily a history, I have attempted to draw on upon resources which r…
Chapter 1 addresses the following question: Is China diverting foreign direct investment from other Asian economies? Theoretically, a growing China can add to other countries' direct investment by creating more opportunities for production networking and by raising demand for ra…
The dissertation comprises three essays on the East Asian market integration. Chapter 1 examines the differences in the degree of market integration for Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand for the pre-1997-crisis and the post-1997-crisis periods using a reg…
International relations theories often focus on the relationship between power and states' interests. The capabilities of a state reflect its level of power. When a state seeks to achieve a policy goal based on its security interests, the state considers the power relationship b…
This dissertation investigates the exchange rate overshooting phenomenon for five East Asian countries—Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Korea—for the period 1987–2000 by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) regression method introduced by Pesaran and Shi…
This dissertation explores the steady-state relationship between foreign income and expenditures, import prices, and U.S. exports for unmilled wheat. Specifically, the study estimates implicit dynamic import-export demand schedules based on a two-stage utility maximization frame…
What is the impact of systemic transitions on regional conflict and the prospects for peace in the Third World? The end of the Cold War represents the first systemic transition since 1945. The effect of this dramatic change upon regional conflict in the Third World is the topic …