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This dissertation examines some aspects of the transition process in the former Soviet Union, including urban housing, the geography of trade flows, and the behavior of an employee-dominated firm. The first essay explores the fundamentals of the Moscow housing market. It establi…

This dissertation was a research methodology study exploring the usage, selection, and interchangeability of company size measures in accounting research. The exploration was conducted in three steps. First, an examination was made of the current usage of size measures in two ac…

Until recently, institutional reforms implemented under the so-called 'apertura' economic strategy has emphasized the correction of macroeconomic imbalances through specific policy measures (i.e. privatization, open trade, fiscal balance, stable exchange rates). As overall imbal…

Regulation in its generic sense has existed for a very long time in different forms, with different aims and different problems of accountability, but the study of competition regulation by a Government agency has perhaps become fashionable only in recent years. This thesis cons…

The main objective of this thesis was to examine three key questions concerning the political economy of digital broadcasting. First, the concept of digital broadcasting and its regulatory issues were investigated. Following the review of the related theories, I proposed a polit…

In the last 30 years the World has been swept by neoliberal doctrine. Under neoliberal conceptions, freedom of the market mechanism has precedence in the process of development. Neoliberalism has had a major impact on the mindset of policymakers, on government strategies for dev…

This dissertation studies the emergence and development of informal trade between Turkey and the former Soviet Union (FSU)--particularly Russia--in the last decade of the twentieth century. It examines the economic structure of this trade network as well as the entrepreneurial a…

The contemporary Iranian art market has been garnering great interest and gaining momentum since the 1990s, and by the time auction houses started to hold major contemporary Middle Eastern art sales in the mid-2000s, Iranian artwork had begun to blossom into a viable and dynamic…

This dissertation examines the ways in which the nineteenth century medical world in Britain was constructed by a growing consumer culture and the commodification of health. Many historians have assumed that although in the eighteenth century, little demarcation existed between …