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Essays on Organizational Decline
(2015-08-10)The purpose of this thesis is to understand how organizations manage decline, focusing on the role of management accounting. In the first study, I investigate the role of management accounting in organizations that experience ... -
Essays on Political Parties, their Organization, and Policy Choice
(2011-11-08)The primary aim of this thesis is to advance economics' understanding of the organization of political parties, for the purpose of explaining the policy choices that result from collective decision procedures. Motivating ... -
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Essays on Public Good Contribution
(2007-11-26)This thesis explores some theoretical and empirical issues in the voluntary contributions to public good. Chapter I contains a brief motivation and introduction. In chapters II and III, we analyze two non-cooperative methods ... -
Essays on Regional Recessions, Spatial Interactions and Forecasting
This thesis contains three essays spanning the fields of econometrics and empirical macroeconomics. The first essay develops an econometric procedure that enables applied researchers to quantify spatial interactions ... -
Essays on Rollover Risk, Bank Loans, and Financial Regulation
(2013-08-14)My dissertation consists of three chapters that address the issues of rollover risk, shareholders' risk taking, and financial regulation, from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The first chapter surveys the ... -
Essays on the Economics of Language and Language Policy
(2013-06-07)This thesis concerns the economic dimensions of second language knowledge and acquisition and the economic implications of language policies. The value of the ability to speak and understand a second language depends on ... -
Essays on the financial system and the transmission of monetary policy
(2007-07-11)This thesis studies the role of the banking system in several aspects of the macroeconomy, including the likelihood of financial crises, volatility of asset prices and the transmission of monetary policy. In chapter ... -
ESSAYS ON THE IMPACT OF NON-FINANCIAL STAKEHOLDERS ON FIRMS’ FINANCING POLICIES
(2011-04-18)In this thesis we investigate whether firms’ relationships with non-financial stakeholders affect their financing policies. We find that the firms that place a higher value on reputation for treating employees generously ... -
Established and suspected risk factors for breast cancer: A case-control study in Vancouver, BC and Kingston, ON
(2011-08-15)More than half of all cases of breast cancer occur among women without any known risk factors. More research is needed on suspected risk factors in order to refine current breast cancer screening tools. The objectives ... -
Establishing Policies of Envrionmental Protection in Hubei, 1970-1990
This dissertation investigates the evolution of environmental protection (EP) policy in Hubei Province from the early 1970s to the middle 1980s. It addresses the local impacts of economic and environmental policies during ... -
Establishing Total Airflow Requirements for Underground Metal/Non-metal Mines based on the Diesel Equipment Fleet
(2013-05-24)Traditionally, ventilation requirements for modern, mechanized underground mines have been based upon the power of the diesel equipment fleet, with a multiplier (determined from empirical data collected and compiled over ... -
The Establishment of Urban Open Spaces to meet User needs:
(2013-04-28)This report compares two neighbourhood parks in Abuja, Nigeria through an analysis of their use and design characteristics. The study seeks to determine which of the two parks is more attractive to users while providing ... -
Esthétique et éthique du témoignage dans le nouveau roman africain d'expression française: Emmanuel Dongala, Tierno Monénembo et Ahmadou Kourouma
(2012-03-01)Cette thèse étudie l’esthétique et l’éthique du témoignage dans le nouveau africain d’expression française voire le roman de la guerre. Au centre est l’enfant comme une catégorie sociale menacée et menaçante. L’enfant ... -
ESTIMATING BODY SEGMENT INERTIAL PARAMETERS OF THE HUMAN BODY USING A MICROSOFT KINECT
(2015-10-28)Estimating biomechanical measures of the human body requires body segment inertial parameters (BSIP). Widely cited estimation methods (Chandler et al., 1975; Dempster, 1955) are based on an elderly population, have inherent ... -
Estimating Dynamic Treatment Effects from Project STAR (Working Paper 36)
(2004-10)This paper considers the analysis of data from randomized trials which offer a sequence of interventions and suffer from a variety of problems in implementation. In experiments that provide treatment in multiple periods ... -
Estimating Evacuation Vulnerability of Urban Transportation Systems using GIS
(2008-09-18)The focus of this thesis is to estimate evacuation vulnerability in a non-specific evacuation context. Three measures were calculated to evaluate the evacuation vulnerability of locations within Frontenac County, Ontario: ... -
Estimating Forest Structure from LiDAR and High Spatial Resolution Imagery for the Prediction of Succession and Species Composition
(2015-04-28)Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and high spatial resolution data combined with advanced statistical techniques have, within the last decade, contributed significantly to advances in the development of enhanced Forest ...