Browsing by Subject "incentives"
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(2023-01-18)“Rational,” individualistic agents populate theories in neoclassical economics, which are intended to represent how humans respond to incentives and stimuli. However, humans do not always behave in the way the agents in ...
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(2012-10-19)Collaboration between international NGOs (INGOs) and governmental organizations (GOs) have contributed significantly to the goals of poverty alleviation and agricultural development in developing countries. Much of the ...
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(2018-04-30)This dissertation introduces two essays with the focus on alternative approaches to empirical research in economics. The first essay uses a reduced-form approach to address a “macro-phenomenon:” the long-standing puzzle ...
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For the past two decades, Mexico has been a significant exporter and importer of the world economy. Inevitably, its importance to the global market has caused a rapid increase in development within the country. Concurrent ...
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(2020-06-15)Mental effort is a familiar sensation that may include feelings of strain or tension, mental workload, or a general unpleasant phenomenology. Subjective experiences of mental effort are important to investigate because ...
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(2015-06-05)This dissertation includes two essays on corporate finance. The first essay investigates why bank debt contracts are frequently renegotiated outside default. I test empirical implications from several theories by looking ...