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Theses and Dissertations
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Essays in Development Economics: The Health and Economic Impact of the Farm-gate Cocoa Price Boom in Ghana
DownloadSpring 2020
This thesis explores the impact of Ghana’s farm-gate cocoa price shocks on welfare. It comprises of two essays. The first essay examines the impact of a farm-gate cocoa price boom on child health, where the price boom directly affects household incomes and indirectly affect the investments in...
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Fall 2016
The Effect of Leisure Time Physical Activity on Labour Market Earnings: Evidence from the Canadian National Population Health Survey Using 6 cycles of data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey I estimate the effect of leisure time physical activity on labour market earnings among...
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Fall 2014
This thesis develops three major essays on Arbitrage Theory, Market’s Viabil- ity and Informational Markets. The first essay (Chapter 3) elaborates the exact connections among the No-Unbounded-Profit-with-Bounded-Risk (called NUPBR hereafter) condition, the existence of the numeraire portfolio,...
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Fall 2023
Essay 1 studies how managerial overconfidence, defined as a miscalibration bias, affects the timing and terms of mergers and acquisitions. Using a real options framework, I show that overconfident acquirers lead to earlier mergers in which the terms of the deal favour target firms. Acquirers'...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation consists of three separate essays on business analytics. Abstract of the three essays are as follows: Essay 1: Peer-production projects are increasingly attracting the attention of Human-Computer Interactions (HCI) scholars. Such complex socio-technical systems could be viewed...