In 2013, Summers (2015) revived the secular stagnation hypothesis, firstly postulated by Hansen (1939), to describe the current macroeconomic picture faced by developed economies. This dissertation assesses this claim. Taking into consideration the inputs from several authors, w…
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Thin Film Composite (TFC) membrane technology has been applied in the removal of various pollutants from wastewater. TFC membranes have small pore sizes which enable the rejection of multivalent ions such as those found in Acid Mine Drainage (AMD). Also, nanoparticles with desir…
1.1 Overview Many traits of economic agents are well studied and understood by psychologists that are yet to be captured by economic theory. This thesis, in the field of behavioral economics, is yet another attempt at unifying the different approaches of the two well-established…
The essays in applied microeconomics contained within this dissertation examine prices in the developing economy contexts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Prices, observed and unobserved, are determined by and incentivize the behavior of all agents in the economy. Prices descri…
This dissertation investigates three inter-related issues in Indonesian Capital Markets. The first issue is to examine the dynamic linkages and information transmission of stock prices and macroeconomic variables using the cointegration analysis and the innovation accounting of …
This dissertation analyzes the nature of price setting behavior and inflation dynamics in Mexico and Turkey. The first chapter provides an overview, of the dissertation. The second chapter presents econometric estimates of the relative importance of forward versus backward looki…
This study investigates the dynamic interactions among key aggregate macro variables in three South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. In particular, several monetarist's hypotheses and relative strength of supp…
The main objective of this study is to provide information that may help the Canadian chicken (turkey) industry in finding additional opportunities in the international market. Currently, the international market is regulated with trade restrictions (different countries have dif…
In the face of high population growth and declining natural resource base, tackling rural poverty necessitates an increase in overall factor productivity or a rise in the market rate of return of assets possessed by the poor. Towards achieving these objectives, the role of spati…
The overall purpose of this study is to estimate how the rise in grain prices (especially corn prices) induced by ethanol production impacts U.S. catfish industry. Using monthly data from January 1996 to December 2007, an ARDL model and bounds testing procedure were used. The ex…
This dissertation incorporates three chapters on commodity prices and household behavior in developing countries: Substantial international aid is spent reducing the cost of contraception in developing countries, as part of a larger effort to reduce total fertility and increase …
Most empirical literature on Walmart Supercenters quantifies the price effect of Supercenter entries using lower frequency data (annual or monthly) and does not take into account finer geographical detail of retail markets experiencing Walmart entries. There is also very little …
Load forecasting has always been an integral part of plant operation. Energy usage is tied to economics and national prosperity. The power grid is in a perpetual state of balance, with the customers consuming the exact amount of energy the utility provides. Knowing the load fore…
This dissertation identifies long term fluctuations in prices and wages in northern and southern Babylonia during the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 B.C.E.). The introduction orients the reader to the study of prices and wages. It reviews previous studies, defin…
The September 2017 issue of the National Geographic magazine contained an article wondering why the Netherlands, this small, urbanized, and densely-populated country in Western Europe, is the second world exporter of food. The answer is found in the innovativeness of Dutch agric…
The occurrence of speculative economic bubbles which has been noted from as early as the 17th century, has a devastating impact on investor wealth and the global economy. One such notable example is the Dot-com bubble which occurred during the end of the 1990s in the United Stat…
Irrigation water shortages have lately been a main area of concern for policy makers and planners in Pakistan. Current literature on the country's water resources predicts an alarming situation regarding the availability of irrigation water in the future due to declining water t…