• Monetary Policy and Discount Window Lending During the Financial Crisis: Theory and Empirical Evidence 

  Zhang, Cuiyi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  This dissertation studies monetary policy during the financial crisis. Particularly, the three essays investigate the transmission channel and effect Discount Window (DW) and Term Auction Facility (TAF) as well as the ...
• Three Essays in Political Economy and Corporate Finance 

  Jiao, Anqi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  This dissertation consists of three essays exploring the issues related to the political economy of finance and corporate finance. The first essay studies whether and how institutional investors exert influence in firms’ ...
• Three Essays on Corporate Policy in Workplace Safety and Health 

  Wang, Zhiyan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This dissertation includes three chapters on corporate policy in workplace safety and health. The research seeks to understand three economic determinants of workplace safety and health — hedge fund activism, shareholder ...
• Essays on Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility 

  Yang, Lukai (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  In the first essay, we study whether the increasingly large and concentrated ownership stakes by passive investors influence shareholders’ activism in the form of shareholder proposals. We find a positive association between ...
• Essays on the Comovement of Commodity Prices, the Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis and the Convergence of CO2 Emissions 

  Islam, MD Towhidul (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  My dissertation aims at developing econometric tests to study nonstationarity in panel data allowing for cross-correlations. The first chapter examines excessive comovement and nonstationarity in commodity prices. Pindyck ...
• An Analysis of the Effect of Hurricanes on Economic Growth and Labor Market Outcomes 

  Goulbourne, Rushaine Demar (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Hurricanes pose a significant threat to life and property in coastal regions across the Caribbean and the United States. Within the United States, the south coast faces an annual threat in locations that house major economic ...
• Nonparametric Estimation and Inference in the Presence of Sample Selection Bias in Experimental Economics Studies 

  Zhong, Huizhen (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Experimental economics studies usually involve self-selection behaviors. In this dissertation, we explore the use of nonparametric approaches to estimate the treatment effect in these studies in the presence of sample ...
• Three Essays on Investments 

  Xu, Luqi (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  This dissertation consists of three essays on investments. The research seeks to contribute to the finance literature on hedge fund marketing, flows and performance, investor behavior and stock market participation and ...
• Three Essays in Investments 

  Azimirahmatidoozandeh, Mehran (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Sentiment is an important concept in economics and finance and has been the focus of many studies. Individual investors, professional investors, corporate managers, and households have sentiments on the economy and financial ...
• Essays in Corporate Finance 

  Luo, Shikong (University of Alabama Libraries, 2021)

  Despite the importance of understanding the interaction between financial markets and the real economy, the indirect effects of secondary markets on corporate outcomes, however, are not well understood. This dissertation ...
• Minimum Wage Changes across Provinces in China: Average Treatment Effects on Employment and Investment Decisions 

  Luo, Ji; Henderson, Daniel J. (MDPI, 2021)

  We exploit data from the China Household Finance Survey to examine the impact of changes in the minimum wage on employment and investment decisions. We are able to non-parametrically identify the average treatment effect ...
• Essays in global comovements 

  Isomitdinov, Hasan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  This dissertation looks into comovements in the global macroeconomic aggregates across countries by applying Bayesian econometric models. The first essay provides new results on the significance and relative importance of ...
• Three essays: cointegration tests and empirical studies using the dynamic factor models 

  Lu, Yan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-05)

  The first essay extends the pioneering cointegration test of Johansen (1991) to allow for structural breaks in a cointegration system. Instead of using usual dummy variables, we utilize a Fourier function to control for ...
• Self-protection under compound risk and ambiguity 

  Brinkley, Nathan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020-12)

  We conduct an experiment designed to elicit risk management behavior and study its effects on disaster risk mitigation and investment in self-protection. Resident homeowners in Tuscaloosa and Mobile, Alabama are given ...
• Essays on financial stability and the industrial organization of the banking system 

  Gao, Jiahong (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  The focus of my dissertation is to study how the industrial organization of the banking sector affects the risk-taking behavior of financial intermediaries and the degree of instability within the banking system. In the ...
• Essays in applied spatial microeconomics 

  Herndon, James Dennis (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  In the first essay, I examine the price behavior of consumer goods in the strategically vital country of Pakistan. Results show that prices converge both temporally and spatially. A wage-adjusted Consumer Price Index shows ...
• International capital flows: implications for economic activity and monetary policy 

  Harrison, Andre (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  In the early 2000’s, there were large swings in capital flows across countries due to a worldwide savings glut. How did it affect investment across countries? Did it have an impact on the transmission channels of monetary ...
• Three essays on the impact of demographic and environmental changes on home sales 

  Goodnature, Mia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  Gentrification occurs when low-income areas transition into higher-income neighborhoods. Chapter 1 examines one possible driver of gentrification: the influx of same-sex couples into a community. Anecdotal evidence suggests ...
• Industrial firm and household responses to energy price changes: evidence from energy subsidy reform in Iran 

  Hasani, Karim (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  The rise in global average temperature due to greenhouse gas emissions is a serious international concern. Yet, one of the important barriers for clean energy transition in the world is the existence of energy subsidies. ...
• Studies on behavioral decision making: theory and experimental evidence 

  Wu, Fan (University of Alabama Libraries, 2020)

  My dissertation on behavioral decision making contains two independent chapters, both adopting the methodology of developing theoretical model, running parameterized simulations, and testing equilibrium predictions or ...

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