Browsing by Author "Li, Quan"
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Bryant, Katherine Vera (2015-11-16)The question of how to enhance the effectiveness of foreign aid has plagued researchers for over six decades. Although in some cases scholars have positive support regarding aid’s impact on economic growth in recipient ...
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Dai, Li (2012-02-14)This dissertation examines the strategic choices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries that become engaged in war. By combining the resource-based view and resource management theory, and drawing additional ...
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Tkach, Benjamin K (2013-10-21)This dissertation investigates the effects of private security firms (PSFs) on conflict outcomes. PSFs are corporations that are publicly or individually owned that provide security services for hire. Security services ...
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Thomson, Catarina 1980- (2012-08-15)My dissertation contributes to the accountability literature in international relations by examining the role constituents' preferences can potentially play in fomenting or constraining coercive foreign policies in ...
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Webb, Clayton McLaughlin (2015-05-05)Are economic sanctions costly for the sanctioning state? Some scholars argue that sanctions are costly tools used to achieve foreign policy goals, while others argue that sanctions are relatively costless tools leaders use ...
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Dai, Darong (2018-05-06)This dissertation includes two essays in nonlinear labor income taxation with tax-driven migrations. In the first essay, we study optimal nonlinear income taxation in an open economy with migration possibilities and social ...
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Li, Xin (2019-03-18)This dissertation is to investigate economic questions, especially questions about labor market, using methodology built upon modern economic theory and empirical study. The topics that I study in this dissertation include ...
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Yin, Weiwen (2020-07-02)Why do some countries with corrupt and dependent courts attract a substantial amount of foreign direct investment (FDI)? To address this puzzle, existing literature has widely discussed the effects of bilateral investment ...
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Garcia, Blake Evan (2015-05-04)Is right-wing terrorism a response to rising immigration levels? I argue that influxes of immigrants into host states create a motive for violence to members of the extreme-right because it embodies an inherent threat to ...
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Mukherjee, Bumba; Smith, Dale L.; Li, Quan (The Journal of Politics, 2009)
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Conchewski, Curtis (2012-10-19)This thesis examines how perturbing selected adversary capabilities in a design basis threat (DBT) may affect the assessment of a facility's security system performance. We found that using a strictly defined DBT to design ...
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Preferences, Knowledge, and Citizen Probability Assessments of the Terrorism Risk of Nuclear Power Li, Quan; Fuhrmann, Matthew; Early, Bryan R.; Vedlitz, Arnold (10/21/2011)How does the American public assess risk when it comes to national security issues? This paper addresses this question by analyzing variation in citizen probability assessments of the terrorism risk of nuclear power plants. ...
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Berkemeier, Molly Louisa (2019-05-15)How do relationships between leaders influence world politics? I argue that shared identity between leaders makes cooperation more likely by increasing interpersonal trust. Leaders who share more similar social identities ...
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Hou, Dadao (2019-03-27)This dissertation examines securitization in the U.S. banking industry before the financial crisis. It employs organizational political economy framework and offers a historical investigation on the relations between the ...
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Li, Quan (2009-05-15)This dissertation develops and empirically tests a theory of interaction between the federal appellate courts and the bureaucracy with regard to bureaucratic prosecution. Modeling the bureaucracy as a forward-looking and ...
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Urbanski, Piotr (2015-01-21)The development of newer and better technologies has reshaped economic markets and will continue to do so in the future. New technologies are widely recognized as a driving force behind economic and political integration. ...