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- 1Akude, Philip J
- 1Alausa,Waleem Babatunde
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- 1Anton, Murı̈el Gay.
- 1Anyangah, Joshua Okeyo
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Spring 2023
This thesis has five chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis. Chapter 2 uses a search and matching model that incorporates labour demand, labour supply, labour market efficiency, search effort and nonemployment duration dependence of job-finding rates to examine the leading cause(s) of a rise...
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Essays in Development Economics: The Health and Economic Impact of the Farm-gate Cocoa Price Boom in Ghana
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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 2017
The thesis is composed of two parts including three chapters. The first two chapters study the wage gap between immigrants and natives in Canada as well as wage structure of immigrants and natives. The third chapter is on the subject of the bank loan-deposit spreads and business cycles. The...
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Fall 2020
The last two decades have witnessed a sharp increase in patent applications filed abroad by domestic innovators. Understanding how firms decide where to patent helps policymakers design policies to encourage domestic innovators to patent abroad or attract foreign innovators to patent in the...
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Fall 2016
This thesis examines market power in a deregulated electricity market, and comprises two distinct areas of research grouped into three chapters. The thesis begins by overviewing electricity markets, including descriptions of uniformprice and discriminatory-price electricity auctions (and the...
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Fall 2013
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 tests the hypothesis that income shocks cause bankruptcy. Using a difference-in-difference specification, we exploit an exogenous fiscal payment, paid to Albertans, and find that this payment causes a decrease in bankruptcies, as predicted by the...
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Fall 2023
This dissertation consists of three essays spanning various fields, including energy economics, labor economics, development economics, and regulation. As many jurisdictions worldwide shift towards low-carbon energy sources, energy producers, consumers, and policymakers face new challenges. The...
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Spring 2023
Sustainable management of natural resources such as fish is important as millions of people rely on such resources for food, source of income, and well-being. It is increasingly challenging, however, for institutions and stakeholders to induce a sustainable exploitation of such resources due to...
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Spring 2014
The twenty-year period from 1990 to 2010 exhibited significant and consequential international economic phenomena. Global imbalances, primarily the U.S. current account deficit, were very prominent, along with the development and bursting of a real estate bubble, low interest rates and saving...