Economics Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Economics, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Essays on Monetary Economics, Duhyeong Kim
Essays on Macroeconomics, Mauricio Torres Ferro
Essays on the Economics of Immigration, Phuong Vu
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Essays on Industrial Organization and Health Economics, Cecilia S. Diaz Campo
Essays on Financial Shocks and External Debt, Jafar El Armali
Revealed Preference Analysis: Theory and Applications, Charles Gauthier
Essays on Conflict Mediation, Ali Kamranzadeh
Essays On Market Design And Auctions, Mingshi Kang
Essays on the Economics of Education, Enrique Martin Luccioni
Essays on Disability and the Labour Market, Robert Geoffrey Millard
Essays on the Economics of Education, Marco Pariguana
Essays on the All-Pay Auction, Henk Schouten
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Three essays in International Economics, Francisco Adame
Peer Effects and Social Networks in an MBA Program, Zinaida Foltin
Three Essays on Climate and Development, Samantha Goertz
Three Essays on Individual and Household Responses to Information, Liquidity, and Policy Shocks, Brian C. Held
Essays in financial asset pricing, Dillon Ross Huddleston
Essays in Financial Econometrics and Machine Learning, Fred Liu
Essays on Firms in International Trade, Aldo Sandoval Hernandez
Essays on Private Information and Monetary Policy, Zijian Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Relaxing the Rational Expectations Assumption: Data-based and Model-based Approaches, Yifan Gong
Essays on Family Economics, Hyeongsuk Jin
Essays on Share Repurchases and Boom-Bust Cycles, Bohan Li
Essays on Student Loans and Returns to Skill, Qian Liu
A Language Barrier To Human Capital Development: The Case Of Guatemalan Students, Fidel Pérez Macal
Characterizing the Value and Effect of Perceptiveness in Various Game-Theoretic Settings, Terrence Adam Rooney
Essays on Criminal Behaviour, Human Capital Formation, and Mental Health, Diego F. Salazar
Adding Data-driven Modelling to Causal Inference And Financial Economics, Sha Wang
Essays on Housing Markets, Yuxi Yao
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Essays on Microeconomic Problems in Multilateral Settings, Ke Xian AuYong
Essays in Economics of Education: Teacher Labour Markets and Earnings of University Graduates, Tomasz M. Handler
Essays on the Economics of Digital Piracy, Zhuang Liu
Essays on College Majors and Skills, Yuki Onozuka
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Essays in International Economics: the Trade-Creation Effect of Migration, Miguel Cardoso
Essays on Parental Leave and Family Labour Supply, Youjin Choi
Non-Linear Time Series Modelling with Applications to Equity and Fixed Income Markets, Galyna Grynkiv
Essays on Crime, Education, and Employment, Maria Antonella Mancino
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Essays in International Economics: Decomposing Episodes of Large Growth in International Trade, Brandon K. Malloy
Essays on Policies Related to Immigration, School Choice, and Crime, Georgy Orlov
Essays on Debt in Macroeconomics, James G. Partridge
Informal Hiring Patterns with Endogenous Job Contacts, Deanna Walker
Essays on Growth and Input Misallocation in China, Wenya Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Essays on Human Capital Complementarities, Hiroaki Mori
Essays on Human Capital and Inequality, Youngmin Park
Volatility Modelling with Applications to Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets, Sergii Pypko
Essays on Applied Microeconomics, Jin Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
College-High School Wage and Human Capital Price Differentials, and the Role of Mobility for Local Wages in the U.S., Eda Bozkurt
On the Economics of Climate Change and its Effects, Aaron B. Gertz
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Essays on Labor Market in Indonesia, Xue Dong
Essays on Innovation and Consumer Credit, David E. Fieldhouse
Essays on Portfolio Optimization, Simulation and Option Pricing, Zhibo Jia
Role of Search, Human Capital and Learning in Occupational Mobility and Immigrant Assimilation, Masashi Miyairi
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Essays on Mechanism Design and the Informed Principal Problem, Nicholas C. Bedard
Essays on Worker Promotion and Wage Growth, Hugh Cassidy
Essays in Macroeconomics of Development, Douwere Eric Grekou
News, Copulas and Independence, Ivan Medovikov
Essays on Skilled Workers and Economic Development, Dozie Okoye
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Essays on Informal Labor Markets, Javier Cano Urbina
Volatility, Duration, and Value-at-Risk, Pujun Liu
Essays on Capital Gains, Household Consumption and Corporate Payout Policy, Chris Mitchell
Essays on Health Insurer and Provider Interactions, Daniel Montanera
Essays on International and Environmental Economics, Jacob Wibe
Essays on Financial Return and Volatility Modeling, Jing Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Essays On Entrepreneurial Financing, Ye Jia
A Collection of Portfolio Management Issues, Mike McCausland
Essays on International Trade, Kai Xu