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A Cost Benefit Analysis of Market Based School Reform
(2006-01-01)American public schools have failed to substantially increase their production from the 1970s despite a substantial increase in dollars spent. One proposed remedy for America?s failing public schools is to subject schools ... -
Analysis of the Mechanics of Internet Advertising
(2009-01-01)Internet advertising is an extremely lucrative industry and a chief revenue stream for search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Excluding video content, internet advertisements are divided into two chief categories: display ... -
Baseball Economics: An Economic Analysis of the Present Situation in the Major League Baseball Players Market
(2000-01-01)As the current collective bargaining agreement for Major League Baseball is drawing to a close, the Commissioner, Bud Selig, is seeking reforms to prevent another work stoppage like the strike in 1994.The economic structure ... -
Benefits and Costs of European Union Enlargement: Should Central and Eastern European CountriesJoin the EU?
(2002-01-01)This research project tries to assess the impact of a future European Union enlargement on the economies of the candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe and on the current members of the Union. The study looks ... -
CEO Compensation and the Tournament Theory: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Data.
(2004-01-01)With its increase of 571% between 1990 and 2000, chief executive officer compensation has become a topic of vigorous debate both in the media and in economics. One approach to CEO pay is the tournament theory, introduced ... -
Corruption and Capital: the effect of corruption on foreign investment
(2012-07-01)Despite the prevalence of anti-corruption policies in major development agencies, the effect of corruption on development remains contested. Theoretically, corruption increases costs and uncertainty for foreign businesses ... -
Economic Growth in East Asia After the Financial Crisis: Prospects for Taiwan, Malaysia, and South Korea
(2002-01-01)Over the past five decades, the countries of East Asia have achieved extraordinary economic growth rates. In just a single generation, these countries have successfully transformed themselves from isolated peasant economies ... -
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Environmental Innovation: An Examination of Dry Cleaning Businesses in California
(2008-01-01)Dry cleaners in the United States use a chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc, in order to remove difficult stains from garments. However, perc is considered a hazardous air pollutant by the United States Environmental ... -
Fan Attendance in Major League Baseball
(2005-01-01)What attracts fans to Major League Baseball games? In sports economics this is an essential question to answer since fan behavior often has significant effects on the different aspects of the baseball business. The current ... -
Financial Fiasco
(2010-01-01)The financial crisis that shocked our nation at the end of 2007 is one of the most compelling and complex disasters of our time. It is not only very intriguing and interesting to economists but also to the everyday consumer. ... -
Germany on the Road to Reform
(2003-01-01)The German economy is facing serious short- and long-term challenges, the most pressing of which are high unemployment levels and slow GDP growth in recent years. The roots of the problems lie in the structural rigidities ... -
Hispanic Entrepreneurship
(2010-01-01)This study explores the determinants of self-employment success and investigates what specific set of factors cause self-employed Hispanics to earn less business income than non-Hispanic Whites. This study contributes to ... -
Measuring the Effects of ?Teach for America' Teachers on Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District
(2009-01-01)My research focuses on the effects of Teach for America in the Los Angeles Unified school district. Teach for America is a program that takes recently graduated college students and professionals and places them in ... -
Poverty Reduction, Power Struggles, and the Issue of Commitment
(2005-01-01)Struggling countries that need financial resources but lack the credibility to access them usually turn to the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) for help. The IFIs respond by providing Structural Adjustment Loans ... -
Power Games In Early China From Game Theoretical Perspectives
(2005-01-01)My research studies an intersection between game theory and history to provide insights into three specific early Chinese historical events. The insights include main factors of the outcomes of these three events, some ... -
Probit Model for Trans-State Theatre-Ticket Sales
(2007-01-01)Do ticket-scalping laws affect the sales of tickets resold online? Currently, many states have laws regarding ticket resale while no federal law exists governing the resale of tickets across states. Due to the spread of ... -
Profit from (and with) Your Neighbor: The Case of a German Credit Cooperative
(2009-01-01)Over the last two decades, the rise of microcredit has cast new light on the age-old question of how to provide credit to the poor. The attention paid to microcredit organizations however, tends to ignore the deeper ... -
Swiss Banking: Reserve Fund and Regulation
(2005-01-01)The overall purpose of my Richter project is to explore the relationship between Switzerland?s banking regulation, focusing on the roles of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, the government financial regulator, and the ... -
The Clean Water Act and California's Coast: An Economic Analysis
(2008-01-01)The ocean, which covers more than three quarters of the Earth?s surface, is not only one of the largest natural resources but also one of the most delicate. Unfortunately, the ocean continues to show signs of degradation ... -
The Clean Water Act and its Implications for California Coastal Waters
(2010-01-01)Occupying 70% of the earth?s surface, water is arguably the most valuable natural resource in existence. Throughout the twentieth century, however, industrial growth and a sharp increase in consumption by developed nations, ...