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An empirical assessment of the political and gendered consequences of economic sanctions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project investigates the unintended political and gender-specific effects of economic sanctions in target countries. Drawing insight from the existing literature...
Exploring the relationships between livelihood dimensions and socio-ecological resilience in the Bolivian altiplano
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Households in the Bolivian Altiplano construct their livelihood strategies in a system marked by changing climate and volatile social systems. The strategies that they choose must work to decrease the household's vulnerability ...
Converting cultural capital to economic capital in the journalism field : content management in the newspaper business
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
of content, and the newspaper's economic capital, embodied in the organization's revenue. Interviews with the newspaper's executives revealed the organization's perception of quality journalism, resource allocation in content management, and the editorial...
Public schools in crisis: a content analysis of news framing since No Child Left Behind
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
despite schools facing the challenges of more economic and cultural diversity and increased accountability. In response, this study seeks to examine how the news media frame public education, particularly since the adoption of the federal No Child Left...
Forecasting county-level unemployment accounting for spatial correlation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This paper analyzes the effect of including a spatial component in models that predict monthly county-level unemployment in Missouri. The initial analysis seeks to explore the general spatial structure of unemployment using ...
A case study of a bio-science network : the Kansas City animal health and nutrition corridor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
the economic interactions within a network of public, private and civic organizations engaged in commercializing animal health and nutrition products. The analysis shows that the patterns of relations follow a functional logic. That is, weak ties are more...
The determinants and impacts of foreign direct investment in the Thai manufacturing sector : a three-way fixed effects approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
-way fixed effects approach is employed to obtain consistent estimation. The results of an analysis of the aggregate manufacturing level suggest that source country GDP, industrial production, FTA, infrastructure, economic stability, and government policies...
A production theory application to modeling Korean beef import demand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research assesses the import demand for beef in the Korean market by source of origins including domestically produced beef. An indirect translog ...
An impact analysis on how biodiesel demand affects the fats and oils market
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
With the signing of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), much attention is being given to the biofuel mandates included in the act. Biodiesel use is mandated to increase from 500 million gallons in 2009 ...
The effect of organizational structure on firm first day underpricing, long-term performance : evidence from U.S. biotech initial public offerings from 1996 to 2004
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
public offerings (IPOs) during 1996 to 2004, we ask whether firms with more divisional organizational structure: Hybrid organizational structure (HYBR) and Pure divisional organizational structure (DVS) perform differently from those with traditional...
Institutions and instability? : a neo-institutional analysis of state economic volatility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
As the United States begins to emerge from the worst economic decline since the Great Depression, many questions are still left unanswered. One fact seems to allude most of the main stream discussion—the impact of this recession on the individual...
Economic voting in new democracies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates economic voting in 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates react to changes...
Ideology of the air : communication policy and the public interest in the United States and Great Britain, 1896-1935
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
-profit commercial system while Great Britain developed a noncommercial public monopoly. This study explores the causes for these different outcomes with a focus on the different invocations of the "public interest" in policy debates. Through a lens of historical...
The political and economic consequences of the summit diplomatic activity of the U.S. president
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
the possibility that these events help socialize heads of state and government into the international order. Third, I investigate the economic impact of bilateral summit meetings with developing states. Results uncover a positive relationship between summits...
Residuum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
American socio-economic culture. As the project progressed, the work's meaning changed to explore how the broader governmental or commercial institutions controlled a person's domestic life and the disposability of one's life. This research is exemplified...
Fremont, OH : from Armistice 1918 to elections 1920
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
the unfulfilled promise left after the Armistice and for all the social unrest and economic hardship of the previous two years....
Covering the bases : variations in the arguments to justify publicly-funded baseball stadiums
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of economic benefits. In response to this, team owners have resorted to other tactics to secure public funding, such as threatening to relocate and appealing to "intangible" benefits such as a city's ego, identity, and "big-league" status. This study, using...
A study of ADA public rights-of-way accessibility guideline impacts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The aim of this research is to improve safety and mobility for the disabled community by examining the impacts of the Public Rights-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG). Another aim is to identify the economic consequent for cities throughout...
Can money buy health? : foreign aid, changes in aid, and the impact of human health in sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
. While most theoretical work focuses on the impact of foreign aid on economic development, this paper seeks to identify if foreign aid has an impact on the human health. By using existing data from OECD on foreign aid, this paper empirically tests...
Marketing modernism to the maitresse de maison : art nouveau and the female consumer
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
family but could also express her individual artistic sensibility. The Art Nouveau movement was primarily aimed at the bourgeois class. Discretionary income allowed the bourgeois the economic freedom to express their modernity through consumption...