This dissertation addresses a fundamental aspect of market behavior: how do buyers and sellers find each other and coordinate the transfer of goods? Standard economic theory assumes that the coordination of exchange between agents is costless and that economic agents are anonymo…
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This dissertation examines contractual choices of tax collection in the fiscal history; specifically it examines the rise and fall of tax farming in the early modern period. Dissatisfied with existing theoretical explanations, this research develops an enhanced transaction cost …
This thesis provides a study on the theory of stochastic von Neumann-Gale dynamical systems and their applications in Economics and Finance. This is a class of multivalued dynamical systems possessing certain properties of convexity and homogeneity. Dynamic models of this kind w…
Since the early 1980's there has been a heightened academic interest in the field of commitment, particularly as it relates to business relationships. Knowledge of commitment continues to advance and has begun splintering and applied into specific and narrow fields. The particul…
In the modern economy, international capital flows become more crucial in driving an economy, especially in the developing countries. Mach research focuses on the effect of financial capital flows on economic growth and/or development. Several researches have studied the linkage…
This thesis contributes to the literature on making agricultural markets work for the poor, with specific reference to Ethiopia. It contains three substantive chapters, which may be read independently. The chapters use primary surveys with traders conducted in 2002 (chapters 2 a…