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  • Essays On Disaster Management Issues Related To Household Preparedness And Public Attention 
    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. In ...
  • Essays on the Vietnam Stock Market 
    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 ...
  • Three Essays on Adverse Events and Student Outcomes 
    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 ...
  • Essays in the Regulation of Drones and Counter-Drone Systems 
    Shelley, Andrew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    Rapid growth in the use of drones potentially delivers significant economic benefits, but it has also given rise to considerable public concern about safety risks, infringement of privacy, and other unwelcome surveillance ...
  • Three Essays on the U.S. Treasury Market 
    Qiao, Rui (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    My thesis consists of three essays on market microstructure. Focusing on the U.S. Treasury market, I investigate several interesting research questions by using twelve years of BrokerTec order books of 2-, 5-, and 10-year ...
  • The effects of neighbourhood and workplace income comparisons on subjective wellbeing 
    Noy, Shakked (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    We investigate how the incomes of a person’s neighbours and coworkers affect her happiness, using survey data on subjective wellbeing linked to unprecedentedly rich administrative data on the characteristics of survey ...
  • Essays in Labour Economics: Evidence from Voluntary and Mandatory Wage Floors in the United States and New Zealand 
    Lancaster, Jaime (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)
    This thesis expands the literature on minimum and living wages by investigating local minimum wage ordinances and voluntary living wage programs. This thesis is presented as three distinct papers; the first explores a ...
  • Joint Decisions in Residential Choice 
    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 ...
  • Essays in Risk Management 
    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 ...
  • Three essays on the adverse effects of weather extremes on local economic and health outcomes in Indonesia 
    Kusuma, Aditya (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The weather-economy nexus has long had close attention from scholars and policy makers as weather hazards often have a significant impact on socioeconomic outcomes of populations around the world. A continuous understanding ...
  • Modelling annual earnings with unemployment: Non-random selection in female workers 
    Robertson, Oliver (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    Female earnings are underrepresented in the earnings and earnings dynamics literature. This underrepresentation is largely a result of the di erences in participation rates between male and female workers. Female workers ...
  • Economics of disaster recovery and earthquake insurance: Five essays on New Zealand 
    Nguyen, Cuong Nhu (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The Canterbury earthquake sequence (2010-2011) was the most devastating catastrophe in New Zealand‘s modern history. Fortunately, in 2011 New Zealand had a high insurance penetration ratio, with more than 95% of residences ...
  • CEO Turnover: Governance, Games and Real Options 
    Stannard, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    The decision a Board of Directors (a board) makes to dismiss or retain its CEO is one of extreme importance in its role of representing shareholder interests and maximising shareholder value. This thesis presents three ...
  • Tax, transfers, and income inequality in New Zealand during 1988-2013 
    Nolan, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This dissertation investigates the role tax and transfer policy changes played in the evolution of New Zealand disposable income inequality between 1988 and 2013. Across five papers, the key changes in tax and transfer ...
  • Investment-Timing and the Threat of Disruption 
    Campbell, Ryan John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    An incumbent firm needs to determine how to best manage the risk of the arrival of a disruptive technology. The numerous actions available to the incumbent firm indicates a complex real-options model of investment is ...
  • Three Essays on Corporate Governance in China 
    Chen, Zonghao (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis consists of three empirical papers on corporate governance in Chinese listed firms. The first essay examines the influence of director characteristics and ownership structure on director compensation. Over the ...
  • Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and Development Economics 
    Huseynov, Ilkin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)
    This thesis consists of three empirical essays on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Small Medium Enterprise (SME) access to finance. The first essay examines determinants of Chinese Outward Direct Investment (ODI) in ...
  • THE ECONOMICS OF DISASTER RISK AND RECOVERY: THREE ESSAYS ON SRI LANKA 
    de Alwis, Diana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Dramatic increase of economic losses from Natural disasters derail economic and human development in many places. This dissertation sheds light on natural disaster risk and short-term and long-term household wellbeing after ...
  • Economics of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Small Island Developing States 
    Taupo, Tauisi (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    The four essays investigate the impacts and implications of climate change and disasters in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific by examining disaster risk, resilience, response, and recovery in Tuvalu. The ...
  • The Determinants of International Student Demand in New Zealand and the OECD 
    Page, Logan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)
    Tertiary education, once a purely domestic affair, has become an increasingly globalised industry over previous decades. Whilst the international sector has grown to being New Zealand's fourth largest export market (Ministry ...

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