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An Instrumental Approach to Full Employment: with Policy Implication
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)
The study proposes that in order to assure full employment, policy measures must address both Keynesian unemployment, and unemployment caused by structural and technological change. It is possible to attain full employment ...
Generalized Multiplicative Error Models: Asymptotic Inference and Empirical Analysis
(2015-08-04)
This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part focuses on extended
Multiplicative Error Models (MEM) that include two extreme cases for nonnegative
series. These extreme cases are common phenomena in high-frequency ...
Detecting change-points in a Compound Poisson Process
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
A statistical change point problem was first studied in the mid-1950s in the
context of quality control in industrial processes. A change point is defined as a point
in the time order when the probability distribution ...
Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
(2015-05-22)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the U.S. banking system since the 1980s
with a specific focus on the role of the relaxation and eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall Act
(GSA) on the stability of the financial ...
The evolution of the U.S. financial architecture, asset prices, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy
(2015-03-04)
In the past years there has been increasing interest in shadow banking institutions.
Economists identified the shadow banking system at the core of the 2007-2008 Global
Financial Crisis and it was a key component of the ...
The evolution of the U.S. financial architecture, asset prices, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-15)
In the past years there has been increasing interest in shadow banking institutions.
Economists identified the shadow banking system at the core of the 2007-2008 Global
Financial Crisis and it was a key component of the ...
Labor Market Outcomes and Employment Policy
(2020)
The first chapter contains an empirical analysis of labor market outcomes. Using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages microdata, individual labor market experiences are tracked over time. Not only is the employment ...
Monetary Policies for Full Employment and Price Stability in Saudi Arabia: An Endogenous Money Approach
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Despite being a relatively young and prosperous country, Saudi Arabia has recently suffered from substantial rises in unemployment. This dissertation thus examines the root
causes for the rise in unemployment and limited ...
Three Essays on Public Money Creation, Endogenous Bank Credit Creation, and Remaining Empirical Issues: Interest Rates and Inflation
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This dissertation examines the interconnectedness between money/credit creation and its
empirical relevance to macroeconomic variables. It takes the position that the amount of
money/credit created for GDP-related ...
The Structure of Production and Portfolio Decisions of Investment
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
Orthodox portfolio theory is at the center of the way neoclassical economics understands private investment and economic policy. Nonetheless, this theory is highly vulnerable to multiple criticisms, and its empirical ...
Essays on Investment Stagnation and Financialization
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
The three essays composing this manuscript examine the problem of capital accumulation from three distinct perspectives. the first essay offers a historical-dynamical view into the work of the pioneer of investment stagnation, ...
Three Essays on the Limits and Possibilities of Economic Sovereignty in the Eurozone
(2022)
There is no disputing Germany’s dominant economic role within the eurozone (EZ) and the broader European Union. Economic leadership, however, entails responsibilities, especially in a world system of monetary production ...
Dynamics of Economic Corruption
(2022)
Corruption, especially in developing countries, has been shown to have large persistent effects on inequality and economic growth. Efforts to eradicate or suppress corruption over the last two decades have floundered. This ...
The Forgotten Lands: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems in Transition
(2022)
This study focuses on transition economies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). These countries have lagged considerably in their transformation from a planned to a market-based system and are therefore ...