DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 1993-2000

Last modified: August 22, 2000


Year Author Title Director
2000 Adrain DeLeon-Arias Endogeneous Growth and Trade Liberalization: Explaining Differences in Urban Manufacturing Growth in Mexico Kwan Kim
Krishnan Chandrasekhar Unhealthy Twins: Exchange Rate and Banking Market Dynamics in the Asian Region Amitava K. Dutt
Byung-Joo Lee
Yongling Ding Inefficient R&D and its Implications for Economic Performance Amitava K. Dutt
Rick DeVries Bankers and Bretton Woods: Origins of Postwar International Martin Wolfson
Juan Noyola Household Wealth in Monterrey, Mexico in the 1990's Kwan Kim
Brian "Brett" O'Hara Health Economics Teresa Ghilarducci
Lynn Unruh The Impact of Hospital Nurse Staffing on the Quality of Patient Care Charles Craypo
David Brennan Methodology, Class and Investment: a Critique of the Radical Literature and the Advancement of Alternatives David F. Ruccio
Samuel Pavel The Living Wage: A Case Study of South Bend Indiana Martin Wolfson
Maria Antonia  Moreno Venezuela: Fiscal Deficit and Inflation Jaime Ros
Steven Nyce Corporate Pension Funding Strategies: Industry and Regulatory Effects Teresa Ghilarducci
Byung-Joo Lee
William Barnes The Challenge of Implementing and Sustaining High Performance Work Systems in the U.S.:  An Evolutionary Analysis of I/N Tek and Kote Martin Wolfson
1999
John Blandford
Sexual Orientation's Role in the Determination of Earnings and the Shaping of Occupational Strategies: theory and econometric evidence Teresa Ghilarducci, Patrick Mason
Tyrone Fernance The Process of Agricultural Modernization in Northern Nigeria: An Overdetermined Analysis David F. Ruccio
Elizabeth Jimenez-Zamora Labor market segmentation and migrant labor : a case study of indigenous and mestizo migrants in Bolivia  Charles Craypo
Andres Rius-Menendez On the Rationality of Democratic Macroeconomic Policy Philip Mirowski
Joseph Stevano The MS method of multidimensional hypothesis testing: a more powerful approach for testing hypothesis  Lawrence C. Marsh
1998 Suzanne Bergeron Fragments of development: Three essays on development, structural adjustment, and economic knowledge David F. Ruccio
Willy Walter Cortéz The political economy of industrial stagnation: Peru's manufactures, 1970-1992 Amitava K. Dutt
Heather L. Grob Self-regulation and safety programs in construction Teresa Ghilarducci
Paula Faye Jordan The Effects of Competition on the Efficiency of Electricity Generation: A Post-PURPA Analysis Lawrence C. Marsh
Isobel Lobo Implementation and Performance of Industry Banking Frank Bonello
Ellen O'Brien Contested Accounts: The Evolution of the Meaning and Measurement of National Income Philip Mirowski
Deborah L. Spencer History and discourse in law and economics: 1920-1985 Charles K. Wilber
Martin Stack  Liquid bread : an examination of the American brewing industry, 1865-1940 Philip Mirowski
Mathew A. Verghis Changing contraints in Indian industry Amitava K. Dutt
1997 David R. Cormier The Connection between Labor Productivity and Worler Participation Charles Craypo
Leslie M. Fergerstrom Economic-Environmental Linkages in a Small Developing Country: The Case of Boliva Amitava K. Dutt
Laura E. Fitzpatrick Food Security and Theories of Development David F. Ruccio
Carlos Ibarra-Niño Three essays on the 1994-95 Mexican currency crisis Jaime Ros
Gilberto Tadeu Lima Three Essays on Capital Accumulation, Distribution and Technological Change Amitava K. Dutt
Jaishankar Raman The Problem of Regional Disparities in India Amitava K. Dutt
1996 Shabnam Shallwani Development Strategies for Rural Women of Pakistan Denis Goulet
Leslie M. Fergerstrom Economic-Environmental Linkages in a Small Developing Economy: The Case of Bolivia Amitava K. Dutt
Gaurav Anand Essays on Sectoral Linkages and Growth Amitava K. Dutt
Bradley Dale Smith The Effects of the Market for Corporate Control at the Firm Level: A Case Study Approach Martin H. Wolfson

Enrique Dussel Peters
From export-oriented to import-oriented industrialization: structural change in Mexico's manufacturing sector (1988-1994) Kwan S. Kim & Jaime Ros
Tatre Jantarakolica Econometric estimation of regression models of the housing market in Bangkok, Thailand Lawrence C. Marsh
1995 Caroline T. Estrella An application of cusp catastrophe modelling to the estimation of the Phillips relation Lawrence C. Marsh
José Antonio Cordero-Peña Essays on growth and distribution in open economies Amitava K. Dutt
A. Melissa Moye Coordination of investment, finance and production in a cooperative industrial group Candace Howes
Muhammad Mazhar Iqbal Corporate restructuring, debt financing, and an interest-free alternative Martin H. Wolfson

Karin L. Wells
The dynamics of public sector employment: did government policies adversely affect the post-1978 employment durations of black men, black women, and white women Thomas R. Swartz
Robert J. Walsh  Empirical evidence on the effects of management buyouts on federal tax revenues Martin H. Wolfson
David J. Carrier The evolution of the U.S. economy, 1948-1992: an empirical model of structural and institutional change Lawrence C Marsh
Kevin D. Brunson Foundations of the principal elements regression structure Lawrence C. Marsh
Parikesit Suprapto Growth and import dependence: the case of Indonesia, 1970-1990 Kwan S. Kim
Germán K. Echecopar Industrial policy and growth: theory and evidence from four countries Jaime Ros

Reynold F. Nesiba
Interstate banking and community reinvestment: an evaluation of how bank mergers and acquisitions influenced residential lending patterns in St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1985-1993 Martin H. Wolfson
Maureen McGlynn Chakraborty Junk bonds, hostile takeovers and the market for corporate control Candace Howes
Luis Fernando López Cobo A macroeconometric model for simulations for the Colombian economy in the middle term Jaime Ros
Ranjini Lungoomiah Thaver The role of the informal sector in restructuring the South African economy Denis Goulet
1994 Gregory J. Buchholz Defined-benefit pension regressivity: a simulation of pensions in segmented labor markets Teresa Ghilarducci
Lisa M. Jordan Flexible work, constrained choices: an alternative understanding of women in contingent employment Teresa Ghilarducci
Daric L. Brummett Functional estimation with universal approximators : an application of neural networks to production functions  Lawrence C. Marsh

W. Scott Trees
The inadequacy of using quantitative methods to explore issues in the economics of poverty: the case of the intergenerational transfer of welfare status James Rakowski
Amy L. Quist Vander Laan Interstate banking and new small business incorporations Thomas R. Swartz
Michael D. Travis Lemon laws and sipute resolution mechanisms: an economic analysis of power Charles K. Wilber
Virginia C. Shingleton Medical benefits and labor mobility Teresa Ghilarducci
Shelley Baxter Producer services and the corporate headquarter complex: a Minneapolis case study Lawrence C. Marsh
Jill Krus Saving the financial system: financial reform in the 1930s Martin H. Wolfson
1993 Gary J. Scott Cost-effectiveness of secondary education in the United States: the impact of instructional error Frank J. Bonello
Kasemsun Chinnavaso The decision to migrate: a comparative study of rural migrants from the north and the northeast regions in Thailand Edward H. Lorenz
Wayne R. Pulver The determinants of demand for Catholic secondary education: a study of the Albany (New York) Diocese Thomas R. Swartz
Sharron L. Terrell An evaluation of the long-term impacts of tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) legislation on state public sector size, 1976-1989  David. M. Betson
Sean T. Flynn The evolution of finance, bank interdependence, and the danger of bank failures in the modern U.S. economy  Martin H. Wolfson
Maura Sheehan Investment and government grants in the Northern Ireland manufacturing sector Marc Jarsulic
Murray V. Leibbrandt Rabula revisited: the South African land issue in the light of a village level study  David F. Ruccio
Peter B. Berg The restructuring of work and the role of training: a comparative analysis of the United States and German automobile industries Edward H. Lorenz
Mohlabane Dunstan Morudu The role of financial institutions in South Africa: 1946 to post-apartheid Frank J. Bonello
Donna A. Bacon A simulation of the effects of alternative child-related tax credits on the household's demand for child care David M. Betson