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Crowding-In Between Public and Private Investment in Developing Countries
Full text linkThe tendency for public investment to crowd-in or crowd-out private investment is the subject of controversy in economic literature. This paper studies the relationship between public and private investment in fixed capital from 1970 to 2019 in 68 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. I find evidence for a crowding-in relationship between public and private investment overall. The crowding-in effect is larger in countries with high scores for measures of good governance, including a score that measures legal framework for businesses and a score that measures corruption
The Impact of Remote Work on Career Mobility: An Empirical Analysis
No full textThe current literature on the implications of an increasingly remote workforce for workers’ career mobility is unclear. This paper examines the impact of remote work on career progression, as defined by organizational and external occupational changes. The paper employs a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to compare remote and non-remote workers across such proxies over time. The analysis controls for education, demographics, and industry to establish a causal link between remote schedules and career development. The findings indicate that teleworking is associated with a 0.13 greater mobility rate compared to in-person workers
Heat and Hardship: Energy Price Increases and Heatstroke Risks in Japan During the Global Energy Crisis
Full text linkGiven the global rise in surface temperatures due to climate change, it is important to understand the interactions governing economic and behavioral responses to household heat adaptation. This study investigated the relationship between energy prices and heatstroke risks in Japan. The analysis revealed that the increase in energy prices during the 2021 global energy crisis was associated with an unexpected decrease in home heatstroke emergency room visits. This result is consistent with the Peltzman effect and moral hazard problem, as reduced economic access to air conditioning may have increased risk perception, heightening heatstroke prevention measures. The ambiguity of this result sheds light on the adaptive resilience of households to weather and energy price shocks
Optimal Capital Allocation Decisions and Investments in the NBA
Full text linkThis thesis investigates the relationship between salary concentration and winning in the NBA, primarily focusing on how the concentration of payroll among top-earning players influences success. Several concentration metrics were constructed and employed including the use of a Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) to measure the share of payroll each player receives across a team. I used fixed effects regressions and clustered standard errors at a team level to control for unobserved factors that remain the same over time. The results revealed a consistent inverted U-shape curve, signaling that an optimal concentration of capital exists for the highest paid player, two highest paid players, and the whole team. The study shows that overconcentration of salaries to top players and over-smoothing of rosters can lead to winning detriments, while strategic capital investment can lead to competitive advantages
Built by Family: How Early Environments Shape Transformational Leaders and Star Followers
Full text linkThis thesis examines how early family environments—defined in this paper by parenting and attachment styles—influence the development of transformational leadership and star followership qualities in children. By integrating research from behavioral and developmental psychology, it explores how authoritative parenting and secure attachment foster self-concept, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. These traits, in turn, predict transformational leadership behaviors such as intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration, as well as star followership traits like active engagement and independent thinking. Through this, a conceptual model is proposed to illustrate the pathways from parenting and attachment to leadership and followership outcomes, mediated by personality, self-concept, and role modeling, and moderated by differential susceptibility and cultural context. Finally, techniques to promote authoritative parenting through fostering warmth, structure, high expectations, and open communication, as well as evidence-based programs like Triple P, are discussed. Ultimately, this thesis highlights how early relational experiences with one’s parents shape not just who children become, but how they lead and follow
A Study of Recursion Relations and Supermex Operators in Simple Combinatorial Games for Application in Renormalization.
No full textThis study investigates recursion relations and supermex operators within the frameworks of simple combinatorial games: Three-Stack Nim, Three-Row Chomp, and a variant of Three-Stack Nim. Game positions were mapped to 3D coordinates [x, y, z] and represented as separately indexed, semi-infinite 2D sheets. Loser sheets (L-sheets) and Instant Winner sheets (IN-sheets or W-sheets) were defined to identify P-positions (previous player wins) and N-positions (next player to move wins). These sheets were related by the recursion operator (Wx+1 = RWx), and supermex operator, (Lx = MWx), to generate all the possible P-positions. For the variant Nim game, auxiliary sheets were required to explain the recursion relation. Deriving these operators is the base for applying renormalization, a method which allows one to calculate detailed probabilities of the geometries of a game’s P-positions
Silencing the Algorithm: TikTok, National Fear, and the Fragility of American Liberalism
No full textThis thesis examines the U.S. government’s attempt to ban TikTok—not as a clear act of national defense, but as an expression of cultural anxiety, political theater, and the fear of losing narrative control. Though framed as a data privacy issue, the ban was never just about what TikTok did—it was about what TikTok represented: a foreign platform that captured too much attention, too quickly, challenging America’s sense of technological and cultural dominance.
Viewed through the lenses of realism and liberalism, this thesis traces how fear, symbolism, and strategic posturing collided in one of the most revealing tech battles of our time. From TikTok’s rise and its attempt to localize data through “Project Texas,” to the 14-hour blackout in January 2025, the mass user migration to Xiaohongshu, and Trump’s abrupt reversal—the story unfolds not through law, but through emotion. In the end, a decision affecting over 170 million Americans hinged not on evidence, but on the mood of a single politician.
At its core, this isn’t a story about an app. It’s a story about America—about what happens when a liberal democracy confuses visibility with vulnerability, and when fear begins to write the rules. The TikTok ban exposes the widening gap between the ideals the U.S. claims to uphold—free speech, open markets, democratic restraint—and how it behaves when those ideals are tested
Optimizing Bitcoin Allocation: Predictability of Bitcoin Portfolio Weights Through Macroeconomic Variables
Full text linkThis thesis examines whether Bitcoin is a beneficial asset in a diversified, mean-variance optimized portfolio and whether its portfolio weights can be reliably predicted using macroeconomic variables. Using data from December 2013 to February 2025, the analysis applies rolling-window portfolio optimization and OLS regressions with Newey-West standard errors to test the relationship between Bitcoin allocations and a set of macroeconomic indicators. Results show that Bitcoin receives non-zero weights across portfolios and that its optimal allocation is sensitive to variables such as changes in the Credit Spread and Yield Curve. These variables were statistically significant in several models and produced meaningful changes in Bitcoin weights when applied to real-world portfolio scenarios. While short-term models produced weaker signals, medium-term windows revealed stronger and more stable relationships. The findings suggest that macroeconomic conditions play a role in Bitcoin’s portfolio value and that forward-looking allocation strategies can benefit by being guided by economic signals
Preserving Roots: Assessing the Assyrian Community in Iraq Through the Eyes of Aid Workers
Full text linkThis study aims to assess the unique challenges and experiences of Assyrians from Iraq from the perspective of humanitarian aid workers. The research questions are as follows: what factors contribute to Christians choosing to leave Iraq, especially in the last 25 years?; what actions by the Iraqi government would deter them from leaving or support them in returning? This study is significant because it focuses attention on the excessive numbers of Assyrians leaving Iraq. Although they are a minority, their translocation produced a massive resettlement of migrants—more than any other group in Iraq. By analyzing the role of the Iraqi government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and international factors through interviews with humanitarian aid workers, this study aims to detect what factors have led Assyrians to seek resettlement in other countries. Understanding these dynamics reveals the gaps in support faced by Assyrians in this region. This study is also significant in that it creates a roadmap for enhancing the conditions of this minority to support them in remaining in their homeland by identifying their unique, unmet needs. This research employs a qualitative approach by relying on interviews with humanitarian aid workers. In online meetings, participants were asked a series of open-ended questions through semi-structured interviews using snowball sampling. Secondary data was collected by reviewing reports, policy documents, and cases from humanitarian organizations to display broad demographic trends. The factors of economic insecurity, cultural preservation, and education are identified as significant components that influence the Assyrians’ departure from Iraq
Selective Sisterhood: Power, Race, and the Internal Division within Feminist Waves in the United States
Full text linkThis thesis examines the complex power dynamics within the United States feminist movement across its four waves, focusing on the persistent marginalization of Black women. Challenging the notion of a unified feminist agenda, it applies Steven Lukes\u27 three dimensions of power to analyze how dominant narratives, often centered on the experiences of White, upper-middle-class women, have shaped feminist discourse and outcomes. Through case studies of the division within the suffrage movement, the President\u27s Commission on the Status of Women, and the “Lean In” phenomenon, this research reveals how power operates not only between men and women but also within feminist movements themselves. It argues that cultural gains and increased representation are insufficient without addressing the structural barriers, non-decision-making processes, and manipulated beliefs that perpetuate inequality. By uncovering the subtle yet powerful mechanisms of exclusion, this thesis seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of how power functions within feminism and how a more inclusive movement can be realized