The continuous surge of free trade agreements around the world makes global economic liberalization an important contemporary issue. As a result, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area was established in 1992. Has this economic agreement been advantag…
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Among four largest cotton producing countries, Pakistan is the only one that had not commercially adopted Bt cotton by 2010. However, the cultivation of Bt cotton, although unapproved and unregulated, increased rapidly after 2005. This dissertation focused on two research questi…
In the first essay, we extend the research of Grinstein and Michaely (2005) on the relation between institutional ownership and payout policy by focusing on the institutions most likely to vote their shares. We account for heterogeneity among institutional investors as well as f…
This dissertation addresses specific questions regarding IMF programs in Asia during the Asian financial crisis. Chapter I is an overview of the crisis and the role of the IMF. The next three research chapters look at the impact of IMF programs in Asia. Chapter 2 looks at the im…
An interregional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) approach is used to measure the impact of variable internal trade costs have on regional consumer welfare and interregional market integration within the Indonesian economy. Existing high interregional price differences in th…
Estimating the causal impact of child work on the contemporaneous health of a child has proven quite challenging given non-random selection of children (i.e., selection based on unobserved attributes) into the labor market and the inability to find credible instruments. Recogniz…
I investigate the impact of analyst following on real activity manipulation. Because analysts follow firms and serve as information intermediaries, analyst following should reduce earnings management through real activity manipulation. However, given the negative ramifications o…
In this dissertation, I write three essays in Development Economics. In essay 1, I provide robust evidence on the effects of BRAC's Targeting the Ultra-Poor Program in Bangladesh (TUP). In addition to BRAC's own classification, I exploit type-1 errors in assignment (leaving elig…
In late 2008, economies worldwide underwent close to complete economic paralysis in what has now been established as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In response, economic research focused on understanding how a well-developed financial market such as the U…
Network concepts are increasingly viewed as offering new approaches to the analysis of organizations, and the understanding of policy processes. In general, the literature on network structures and processes within public administration is quite positive. However, this mode of o…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a prosperous country struggling with the threat of cybercrime. Deep packet inspection (DPI) technology offered an enterprise-level solution to the cybercrime problem, enhancing firewalls and threat detection capabilities. Controversy surrounded …
Empathy is a pivotal leadership tool in today's global market. The current business world is characterized by rapid globalization which has led to an increase in the growth and prominence of multinational organizations. This trend towards globalization has increased the challeng…
Obvious effects from intra-state conflict include the death of those swept up in the conflict and the destruction of physical capital. Perhaps less obvious is the damage done to trade and the distortion of resource expenditures away from their peacetime efficient uses. This diss…
This dissertation contains three essays on development economics, addressing trade liberalization and inequality in Brazil, a large-scale child health intervention in Indonesia, and conceptual and methodological aspects of measuring household economic well-being. The three consi…
Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 99 illustrates the three fraud conditions (incentives/pressures, opportunities, and rationalizations/attitudes) in detail, but devotes less emphasis to collusion, another important element of fraud. The problem is that lack of research o…
Why do child labor norms often fail to be transferred or enforced in developing countries even if the implementation of such norms already proved to have substantially reduced child labor practices in developed regions? In the field of international political economy, a number o…
The primary objective of this thesis is to explore the influence of products' aesthetic forms on consumer preferences for utilitarian or hedonic attributes. By operationalizing aesthetic form through visual congruity, this research used a discrete choice methodology to predict v…
Heroin prices are a reflection of supply and demand, and similar to any other market, profits motivate participation. The intent of this research is to examine the change in Afghan opium production due to political conflict affecting Europe's heroin market and government policie…
This study undertakes a quantitative investigation of the distributional and welfare consequences of a sharp reduction in inflation in a small open economy. In the first chapter, a monetary model of a small open economy with uninsured idiosyncratic earnings risk is analyzed. In …