The Marshallian Macroeconomic Model (MMM) developed by Veloce and Zellner (1985} provides a novel way to study sectoral dynamics of an economy in the presence of a dynamic entry/exit equation. Later extended by Zellner and Israilevich (2005} to include interactions between households, production...

This dissertation includes three essays in Applied Econometrics. Each essay explores an interesting and important question in the real economic world. In the course of investigating the nature of each question, appropriate techniques are combined in order to overcome the problems of previous...

Entrepreneurs are an important segment of the economy, particularly in terms of economic development (Baumol, et al. 2007). However, the study of entrepreneurs and how they create firms is still an open question (Venkataraman 1998). In part, this question remains open as a result of the academic...

The two essays in this dissertation are concerned with investors' decision making in the global environment. Finance literature has established that investors do not allocate their investments in mean variance efficient portfolios. Instead, variables such as economic development and familiarity...

Restatements are made to correct material errors in companies' financial statements previously filed with SEC. Companies try to avoid restatements because a restatement itself would raise the question of whether the management has been playing the "Numbers Game". My dissertation is motivated by...

With the introduction of the monetary union and the single currency in the Gulf Cooperation Council by 2010, the prospective supernational monetary agency will conduct a single and indivisible monetary and exchange policy. Its policies will be based on the GCC-wide economic and financial...

The wage gap between skilled workers and unskilled workers expanded in the U.S. Based on the essential idea of Stolper and Samuelson (1941) and following the mandated wage method of Haskel and Slaughter (2003), this dissertation examines whether the reductions of U.S. import tariffs contributed...

If there is one thing economists agree on, probably it is that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Money also is thought to be related to the output level of the economy. The consensus among economists, however, does not go any further, and views differ on the characteristics of the...

Significant prediction of asset prices is of a great importance in financial economics. When studying economic and financial phenomena, it is essential to correctly specify the model. If the true dynamics are nonlinear, using linear methods will probably be irrelevant in doing empirical...

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship between the Capital Asset Pricing Model - CAPM and the prevailing High Frequency Trading (HFT) method of stocks trading and to explain the relationship between them, if exist, with the references from research papers and...