Habibi, Hanna(Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)
This dissertation contains an essay on the effects of earthquake exposure on household preparedness in the short and long term and two essays on the predictors of public attention to earthquakes around the world.
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Wills, Olivia(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
This dissertation contains three essays on the impact of unexpected adverse events on student outcomes. All three attempt to identify causal inference using plausibly exogenous shocks and econometric tools, applied to rich ...
Yadipur, Mahdi(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
This thesis consists of five chapters that examines risk and uncertainty within two frameworks: foreign exchange market and real options. The first chapter is a preliminary part that overviews the structure of thesis. In ...
Nguyen, Phuong Thi Ly(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
This thesis consists of three substantive studies about the Vietnam stock market. In particular, I study the asymmetric information, corporate governance (CG) practices, and foreign investment of publicly listed companies ...
Johnsen, Edward(Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
Economic agents frequently make joint decisions, which often require a compromise by some or all of the participants. We propose an econometric model in which groups of agents make a joint decision; each agent has preferences ...