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The Fourth Wave, Management Science and Practice in the Age of the Anthropocene
(2014-04)
Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to ...
Three Essays in International Trade and Macroeconomics.
(2014)
The first chapter studies the impact of globalization on the income gaps between the rich and the poor. This paper presents a new piece of
empirical evidence showing that executive-to-worker pay ratio is higher among ...
Testing the causality between electricity consumption, energy use and education in Africa
(2014-09-01)
We investigate the existence of causal relationships between energy consumption and education (enrollment in primary secondary and higher education) for a sample of 16 African countries over the period 1971-2010 (according ...
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms
(2014-01-01)
We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level ...
Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
(2014-02-01)
The global financial crisis has reiterated the need for Africa to build resilience to global output shocks. In this paper we examine empirically the role of intra-regional and intra-African trade linkages in being an ...
Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Prices under Different Exchange Rate Regimes
(2014-01-01)
Responsiveness of exchange rates to external price shocks as well as their ability to serve as a traditional vehicle for a transmission of these shocks to domestic prices is affected by exchange rate arrangement adopted ...
Supply Function Competition in Electricity Markets with Flexible, Inflexible, and Variable Generation
(2014-04)
In this paper we study the supply function competition between power-generation firms with different levels of flexibility. Inflexible firms produce power at a constant rate over an operating horizon, while flexible firms ...
Safer Ratios, Riskier Portfolios: Banks’ Response to Government Aid
(2014-02)
We study the effect of government assistance on bank risk taking. Using hand-collected data on bank applications for government assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), we investigate the effect of both ...
Economic (In)Security and Gender Differences in Trade Policy Attitudes
(2014-01-01)
Over time and across countries, researchers have noted frequent and mostly unexplained gender differences in the levels of support for policies of free or freer trade: women tend to be less favorable toward policies of ...
Some Problems in Stochastic Control Theory Related to Inventory Management and Coarsening.
(2014)
In this dissertation, we study two stochastic control problems arising from inventory management and coarsening.
First, we study a stochastic production/inventory system with a finite production capacity and random demand. ...