Regional Development and Transportation
Technology, Science, and Innovation
Governance
Culture and Society
Organizational and Information Technology
Global and International Systems
Military
Health
Education
Entrepreneurship
Student | Chair | Dissertation Title |
AGWARA, Hezekiah O. | Goldstone | Legacies of the Past: Coinciding Inequalities, Trust, and Entrepreneurial Capabilities of Nations (May 2012) |
ARNOLD, Aaron M. | Acs | An Organizational Approach to Entrepreneurship in the Federal Sector (May 2014) |
BANERJEE, Pritam | Reinert | Trade in Professional Services and Technical Barriers to Trade in India's Preferential Trade Agreements (May 2013) |
CHEN, Daowen Wendy | Abramson | Crowdfunding for Commercial and Social Ventures (May 2020) |
DANI, Lokesh | Auerswald | Reconciling Design and Evolution in Economic Development: Methods to Map Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (May 2020) |
DESAI, Sameeksha | Acs | Essays on Entrepreneurship and Postconflict Reconstruction (Aug. 2008) |
DO, Soo Gwan | Acs | Does Social Capital Matter? The Impacts of Social Capital on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth in the Knowledge Economy (Jan. 2010) |
GARG, Sachin | Auerswald | Essays on Big Data and Development (August 2017) |
GUTIERREZ, Juan Julio | Hart | Plant-Level Innovation Patterns in a Globalized World: A Latin American Perspective (December 2013) |
HODGE, Ronald | Listokin | Patterns of Adoption for Mobile Broadband: Its Role in the U.S. Digital Divide (May 2017) |
JACKSON, Scott | Stough | Mulling Over Massachusetts: Health Insurance Mandates and Entrepreneurs (May 2008) |
KIM, Mee Jung | Earle | Finance, Business Growth and Entrepreneurship (May 2020) |
LEE, Kyung Min | Earle | Essays on Labor, Health, and Entrepreneurship (May 2019) |
MASCI, Pietro | High | Insurance Market Development and Entrepreneurship, with a Focus on Latin America and Brazil |
MILLER, David J. | Acs | Campus as Frontier: High Growth Student Startups at US Colleges and Universities |
MITOKO, Jeremiah B. | Auerswald | Toward A Risk Tolerant Paradigm in Microcredit: Modeling the Case of Kenya (December 2019) |
NOVAK, Justin M. | Hart | Use of Knowledge Commons in Open Innovation Systems: The Case of Free and Open Source Software |
QIAN, Haifeng | Acs | Regional Systems of Entrepreneurship: The Nexus of Human Capital, Knowledge, and Entrepreneurial Activity (Aug. 2010) |
RAMNATH, Gayatri | Ketkar | Innovation in Emerging Market Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Barriers and Access to Resources (August 2012) |
SONG, Abraham Keunwon | Acs | State Business Incentives, Job Creation, and Entrepreneurship (May 2020) |
SUTTER, Ryan C. | Stough | The Psychology of Entrepreneurship and the Technological Frontier - A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Regional Entrepreneurship in the United States (May 2010) |
TINGLE, Anthony L. | Hart | Essays on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs |
WANG, Jiamin | Stough | Innovation through Alliance and M&A, Location Advantage, and Firm Growth: Evidence from U.S. Publicly Traded Pharmaceutical Companies (December 2012) |
WATERS, Keith L. | Fuller | Firm Formation and Regional Labor Allocation (December 2018) |
ZHANG, Ting | Schintler | It's Never Too Late: Elderly Entrepreneurship in the Aging Economy (Jan. 2008) |
Population, Migration, and Public Policy
Student | Chair | Dissertation Title |
DALESANDRY, Malia | Schintler | Persistent Criminalization as a Protracted Crisis: Stigma and Rational Choice Within the Sex Workers’ Rights Community (May 2023) |
DAVIS, Theodore J. | Hart | High-Skill Migration as a Positive-Sum Relationship for Tradable Services: The Case of India and the United States (December 2013) |
HIMATHONGKAM, Tinapa | Koizumi | Grocery Shopping Destination Choice and Obesity: an Empirical Study of Urban Population in Bangkok, Thailand |
HU, Xiaochu | Fuller | Immigration and Economic Growth in Metropolitan Areas (May 2014) |
KAY, Ward R. | Mayer | Where's the "Public" in Public Policy: Skewed Democratic Pluralism vs. Nuanced Public Opinion in Attitudes toward Unauthorized Immigrants |
KUILER, Erik W. | McNeely | The Search for Eudaimonia: An Analysis of International Development, Migration, and Gender Equality |
LUNN, Maxine P. | Lipset | Community at a Crossroads - Latino Community Participation in Agenda Setting in Washington, D.C. |
METSCHER, Karen Noelle | Goldstone | Population Health Measures as Indicators of Fertility Change |
PLANT JR., John T. | Goldstone | Population Policies for Developed States in Eastern Europe: A Framework for Comprehensive National Responses to Demographic Change (December 2018) |
SHOEMAKER, Melissa | Wedel | A House Divided: Evolution of EU Asylum Policy After The Bosnian War |
STURTEVANT (FOWLER), Lisa Ann | Fuller | Immigrant Suburbs: An Analysis of the Residential Mobility and Location Decisions of Recent Immigrants |
TIAN, Fangmeng | Hart | Emigration of Chinese Scientists and its Impacts on National Research Performance from a Sending Country Perspective |
WANG, Yiying Elle | Goldstone | West African Merchants in Yiwu City, China: Immigrant Identities and Chinese Immigration Policies (December 2018) |
American Foreign and National Security Policy
Student | Chair | Dissertation Title |
AL-NSOUR, Maen F. | Stough | Economic Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma: The Case of Israel and the Arab States |
BOARDMAN, Mary C. | Acs | Development Assistance and Counterinsurgency: Understanding Philanthropy and Charity Within a Clear-Hold-Build Strategy (May 2014) |
BUCKLEY, Karen J. | Pfiffner | Deadly Contagion: The Tactical Use and Migration of Suicide Bombings (May 2018) |
BYBEE, Ashley-Louise N. | Goldstone | Narco State or Failed State? Politics and Narcotics in Guinea-Bissau |
CAHILL, James D. | Rhodes | War Plans and Effective Military Organizations |
CAMPBELL, Kristy | Gest | A Study on Presidential Approval and the Use of Force (August 2023) |
COGHLAN, Thomas K. | Pfiffner | Intelligence Community (IC) Performance Management: Did the Director of National Intelligence’s (DNI) 2007 IC Policy Directive 651 on Performance Management Achieve its Policy Objectives? |
CUDA, Daniel L. | High | Competition, Depot Maintenance, and Businesslike Reform of the Department of Defense |
DEVIRGILIO, Mark | Sibley | Balancing Information Access and Security (BIAS): Explaining Three Decades of United States Encryption Policymaking |
ENGSTROM, Jeffrey | Wan | Patterns of Military Coercion: China and Taiwan, 1949-1958 (May 2020) |
FERNANDES, Benjamin J. | Goldstone | Impact of Foreign Military Education and Training on Coups (May 2020) |
FISHEL, Eugene M. | Rhodes | Third-Party Considerations in U.S. Bilateral Relations: Four Case Studies Examining the Presence of the Moscow Factor in U.S. Policy Toward Sovereign Ukraine |
FLETCHER, Charles V. | Armor | Politics and Military Base Closures |
GERMAN, Keith H. | Goldstone | Interagency Interaction: Exploring the Facilitators & Inhibitors of Interagency Interaction in the US National Security System (May 2015) |
GILL, Angela D. | Goldstone | Leadership Legitimation and Political Instability in U.S. Interventions (December 2020) |
GOEPNER, Erik | Thrall | Hurt People Hurt People: Trauma, the State, and Civil War (December 2018) |
GORDON IV, John | Pfiffner | The Quadrennial Defense Review: Analyzing the Major Defense Review Process |
HARE, Forrest B. | Sommer | The Interdependent Nature of National Cyber Security: Motivating Private Action for a Public Good |
HUSSAIN, Nazia | Shelley | Tracing Order in Seeming Chaos: Understanding the Informal and Violent Political Order of Karachi |
HUTCHINSON, George | Rhodes | Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Bomb: A Framework for Explaining North Korea’s Nuclear Decisions and Strategies (December 2022) |
KARADEMIR, Kutluer | Goldstone | Democratic Policing and Organizational Learning in UN Police Missions: A Mixed-Methods Study (December 2012) |
KRUEGER, Richard D. | Pfiffner | Technology Transfer and U.S. National Security Policy: The Joint Strike Fighter |
LASSELLE, Alexis R. | Pfiffner | Legislating “Military Entitlements": A Challenge to the Congressional Abdication Thesis |
LE RENARD, Callie | Dinan | External Actors and National Preference Formation: European Energy Security Policy and Relations with Russia (December 2013) |
MARSTON, Kayyonne | Shelley | In Pursuit of Illicit Goals: Structure, Dynamics, and Collapse of Crime Facilitating Networks in Jamaica |
MCCREESH, Patrick J. | Listokin | The Factors Contributing to Agency-Level Budgetary Patterns in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) |
MCGOVERN, Tara A. | Shelley | New Armed Groups in Colombia: The Emergence of the Bacrim in the 21st Century |
MICHAEL, George J. | Fukuyama | The U.S. Response to Domestic Right Wing Terrorism and Extremism: A Government and NGO Partnership |
NAREL, James L. | Avruch/ Pfiffner |
Humanitarian and Military Organizational Cultures and the Challenges of Contemporary Complex Emergencies |
ONWUDIWE, Ruby | Goldstone | Globalization, Extractive FDI and the Effects of Multinational Corporations on Conflict Situations in Developing Countries |
PARKER, Emma | Pfiffner | The Securitization of United States Foreign Assistance (December 2022) |
PATACSIL, Peter K. | Rhodes | The Design and Evolution of the United States Cyber Command |
PERRON, Michael A. | Rhodes | State Sovereignty at Risk: A Descriptive Case Study on the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Behavior of Kim Jong Il During the Six-Party Talks (2003-2009) (May 2019) |
ROUGH, Jill A. | Mayer | Is the Abrams Doctrine Valid?: Exploring the Impact of Army National Guard Mobilization on Public Support for the War on Terror |
SALEEM, Raja Muhammad Ali | Goldstone | Effect of Islam's Role in State Nationalism on the Islamization of Government: Case Studies of Turkey and Pakistan |
SCAPPINI, Karla L. | Addleson | Organizing for Aid Effectiveness: A Multi-Case Study of U.S. Foreign Aid Delivery Models (December 2013) |
SUNDERBRUCH, Jude | Pfiffner | An Assessment of Neofunctionalist Spillover in Security Structures of the Post-Cold War European Union |
VOLPE, Michael | Goldstone | Frame Resonance and Failure in the Thai Red Shirts and Yellow Shirts Movements |
WILLIAMS, Michael B. | Armor | Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Military Leadership: A Feasibility Analysis of the Military Leadership Diversity Commission’s Service Academy Accession Recommendations (December 2013) |
Economic Policy
Student | Chair | Dissertation Title |
AGARWAL, Vertica | Reinert | The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Income Inequality: A Study of India |
AL-NSOUR, Maen F. | Stough | Economic Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma: The Case of Israel and the Arab States |
ALLEN, Benjamin L. | Fukuyama | Consumption Taxation of Electronic Commerce: A Comparison of United States (US) and European Union (EU) Policies, 1997 to 2000 |
ARENA, Peter M. | Stough | High Technology Employment Growth in Metropolitan America: An Empirical Investigation |
BELLAS, Dean Demetrius | Fuller | Fiscal Impact Simulation Modeling: Calculating the Fiscal Impact of Development |
BEVERINOTTI, Javier H. | Hughes Hallett | Domestic Costs of Default: Financial Interactions and Policy Implications (December 2012) |
BOLAÑOS FLETES, Lisardo Armando | Hughes Hallett | Choosing Trade Partners to Avoid Falling Behind (August 2019) |
BOOPPANON, Sarasin | Reinert | The Effects of Bilateral and Regional Investment Agreements on the FDI Inflows into ASEAN Countries |
BROOK, Douglas A. | Pfiffner | Business Style Financial Statements Under the CFO Act: An Examination of Audit Opinions |
BRYANT, Victoria | Slavov | The Outbreak of a Tax Break: Essays on the Participation and Impact of the Saver's Credit Across Time and Distance (May 2020) |
CALHOUN, Todd R. | High | An Investigation into the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Freedom in Host Countries |
CHAMPAGNE, Maurice B. | Fuller | Interest Groups and Ideas: The Battle over Housing Finance in the Run-up to the Financial Crisis (May 2015) |
CHAPMAN, Lynn | Haynes | The Effects of Monetary Policy on U.S. Regional Employment 1999-2004 |
CHECHERITA, Cristina | Hughes Hallett | A Macroeconomic Analysis of Investment Under Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and Its Policy Implications - the Case of Developing Countries |
CHONG, Dae In | Root | Undervaluation, Political Economy, and Development (December 2018) |
CHUDY, John P. | White | Political Management and Economic Policy Reform: An Exploration of Structural Adjustment Experience |
COX, Kenneth E. | Button | Economies of Speed: Policy Implications of High Speed Technologies on the U.S. Maritime Transportation System |
DANI, Lokesh | Auerswald | Reconciling Design and Evolution in Economic Development: Methods to Map Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (May 2020) |
DAVIS, Theodore J. | Hart | High-Skill Migration as a Positive-Sum Relationship for Tradable Services: The Case of India and the United States (December 2013) |
DESANTIS, Mark F. | Stough | Leadership, Resource Endowments and Regional Economic Development |
DING, Lei | Haynes | Telecommunications Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development in China |
DO, Soo Gwan | Acs | Does Social Capital Matter? The Impacts of Social Capital on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth in the Knowledge Economy |
EMMONS, Elinor K. | Gulledge | Public Policy Implications From Private Sector Enterprise Integration |
FANDL, Kevin J. | Goldstone | Beyond the Invisible: The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Formalization on Small Businesses in Colombia |
FASEHUN, Simisola | Goldstone | Impact of Humanitarian Aid on Facilitating Corruption: A Look at Nations in Central America and the Caribbean (August 2021) |
FAZZARI, Justin D. | Fuller | A Study of Metropolitan Economies from 1980 - 2000: Examining Changes in Metropolitan Sectoral Employment and Poverty |
FONTANEZ, Paul J. | Fuller | Determinants of Kyrgyz Economic Growth |
FRANK, Peter | Stough | Nonprofit Entrepreneurship in Regional Economies: Organization Creation and Economic Growth |
GETTMAN, Jon | Fuller | Portfolio Variance Analysis and Sustainable Rural Economic Development |
GOODLOE, John M. | Lavoie | Money, Democracy, and the Southern Tradition |
GOPALAN, Sasidaran | Rajan | Monetary and Financial Implications of Foreign Bank Entry in Emerging and Developing Economies |
HARPEL, Ellen D. | Fuller | The Role of Professional and Business Services in Metropolitan Economies |
HOLLEY JR, William T. | Fuller | Assessing the Impact of Prison Siting on Rural Economic Development |
HU, Xiaochu | Fuller | Immigration and Economic Growth in Metropolitan Areas (May 2014) |
ISTRATE, Emilia C. | Stough | Small Businesses, Institutions, and the Informal Economy |
JEFFERSON, Katherine D. | Stough | Transportation Policy and Quality of Life: An Analysis of the Socioeconomic Effects of Implementing Ramp Metering, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lanes and High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lanes Within an Urban Transportation Network |
JUNG, Yu Jin | Fuller | Linking Workforce Development and Economic Development in Regions: A Mixed Method Evaluation |
KHAN, Muhammad Salar | Hart and Olds | Absorptive Capacity and Economic Growth: How Does Absorptive Capacity Affect Economic Growth in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? (August 2022) |
KHWAJA, Elsa | Reinert | The Network Architecture of Rural Development Interventions: Exploring the Relational Dynamics of Aid-impact in the Fragile and Conflict-Affected Cases of Pakistan and Afghanistan (August 2021) |
KIM, Hyun Ju (Monica) | Koizumi | Essays on Household Decision-Making and Mobile Access in Ethiopia |
KOCORNIK-MINA, Adriana | Stough | The Effects of Space of Inter-State Growth Dynamics and Income Disparities in India - Modeling the Simultaneous Growth of a System of Spatial Units |
KUILER, Erik W. | McNeely | The Search for Eudaimonia: An Analysis of International Development, Migration, and Gender Equality |
LAWRENCE, James A. | Armor | Growing Earnings Inequality in U.S. Metro Regions (1990 to 2004): The Role of the Financial Services and Information Technology Industries (December 2013) |
LEE, Kyung Min | Earle | Essays on Labor, Health, and Entrepreneurship (May 2019) |
LI, Huaqun | Haynes | Regional Economic Inequality and Foreign Direct Investment in China |
LI, Ning | Kash | Innovation Systems and Technology Spillovers: Economic, Geographic, and Institutional Perspectives |
LI, Qiangsheng | Haynes | Regional Dynamics and Growth Advantages of the Washington Metropolitan Economy: An Extended and Integrated Shift-Share Approach |
LITTON, Eric | Marvel | How Do Framed Messages Affect Budget Recommendations? An Experiment in Federal Government Budgeting |
LIU, Yanchun | Haynes | Impacts of Telecommunications Infrastructure and Its Spillover Effects on Regional Economic Growth in China |
MAGNESS, Phillip | High | From Tariffs to the Income Tax: Trade Protection and Revenue in the United States |
MOHD AMIN, Fatima | Hill | Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Malaysian Information Technology (IT) Industry |
ONWUDIWE, Ruby | Goldstone | Globalization, Extractive FDI and the Effects of Multinational Corporations on Conflict Situations in Developing Countries |
PALUBINSKAS, Ginta T. | Stough | Economic Transformation: The Full Societal Transformation Thesis |
PARDO, Camilo H. | Shelley | The Political Economy of Land Property Rights in the Colombian Civil War: A Study on Land-Grabbing (December 2019) |
PELLETIERE, Danilo | Reinert | Why Do Countries Protect Used Goods Markets: An Inquiry Into the Used Automobile Trade |
RAMNATH, Gayatri | Ketkar | Innovation in Emerging Market Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Barriers and Access to Resources (August 2012) |
RESTON, Russell | High | The Philippine Economy Under Ramos: A Comparative Scorecard |
RUSTICI, Thomas C. | High | The Economic Effects of the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 and the Beginning of the Great Depression |
SALAZAR, Maria E. | Stough | Local Economic Development in Mexico: A Comparative Study of the Methods and Goals of Local, State and Federal Economic Development Agencies |
SANY, Joseph Nzima | Goldstone | USAID Funds and Locals Own: Local Ownership of Projects in Situations of Fragility and Instability. The Cases of Idejen in Haiti and Building Peace and Prosperity in Casamance, Senegal (May 2013) |
SHPAK, Solomiya | Earle | Essays on FDI, Oligarchs, and Firm Performance (May 2020) |
SIDDIQUE, Abu Bakkar | Koizumi | Three Essays on Tax Behavior, Public Goods Provisions, and Income Poverty (August 2022) |
SONG, Chunpu | Stough | The Regional Macroeconomic Effects of Public Infrastructure in China |
STABILE, Bonnie B. | Tolchin | Balancing Morality and Economy: The Case of State Human Cloning Policies |
STOLORZ, Sebastian | Hughes Hallett | The Implementation of Inflation Targeting in Emerging and Developing Countries: The Role of Accountability in Designing and Executing Monetary Policy Regime (December 2019) |
TIRTOSUHARTO, Darius | Stough | Regional Competitiveness in Indonesia: The Incentives of Fiscal Decentralization on Efficiency and Economic Growth |
UMAROV, Utkirdjan | Haynes | Modeling Lending Pressure and House Price Bubble Absorption: A Case of the United States (May 2018) |
VACHAL, Kimberly J. | Button | Economic Growth of Nonmetropolitan and Agricultural Region Cities (Jan. 2005) |
VEGA, Henry, L. | Button | Developing Countries and Their Airborne Export Flows of Perishable and High-Tech Goods |
VU, Ha | Root | Fiscal Policy in Vietnam: Does It Spur Regional Concentration? |
WATERS, Keith L. | Fuller | Firm Formation and Regional Labor Allocation (December 2018) |
YANANMANDRA, Venkataramana | Rajan | Essays on Monetary and Exchange Rate Effects in India (May 2014) |
ZHAO, Zuoquan | Stough | The Economic Growth of a Nation: A Spatial Perspective |
Energy and Environmental Policy
Student | Chair | Dissertation Title |
ABEL, Troy D. | Stough | Paths to New Public Policy: Civic Factors and Local Voluntary Environmental Efforts |
CURTIS, Michael R. | Kash | Technological Innovation and Public Private Sector Collaborations: The Case of the Advanced Turbine System Program |
DIAMOND, David B. | Auerswald | Public Policies for Hybrid-Electric Vehicles: The Impact of Government Incentives on Consumer Adoption |
DOLAN, Dana Archer | Posner | Tracing a Slow Emergency through Kingdon’s Politics Stream: How Australia’s Extreme Millennium Drought Influenced Climate Change Adaptation Governance in the 2007 Water Act |
DUNLAP, Katrina Hubbard | Schintler | Linking Public Trust in Government with Federal Disaster Relief Aid: A Case Study of Hurricane-Prone Gulf Coast Residents (August 2022) |
HARTKE, Jason | Pfiffner | The Environmental Presidency: Explaining Environmental Policy by Direct Action |
HICKS, Joel | Hart | Behavioral Interventions in Energy Consumption (December 2019) |
LE RENARD, Callie | Dinan | External Actors and National Preference Formation: European Energy Security Policy and Relations with Russia (December 2013) |
PARFOMAK, Elizabeth C. | Stough | Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide: Socioeconomic Characteristics and Landowner Acceptance of Carbon Sequestration Sites (December 2012) |
SKLAREW, Jennifer | Hart | Shock to the System: How Catastrophic Events and Institutional Relationships Impact Japanese Energy Policymaking, Resilience, and Innovation |
STANFORD, Virgil Ian | LaPorte | Rooftop Revolution? The Comparative Effectiveness of State Incentives for Solar Photovoltaic Adoption in the Residential Sector |
TIAN, Fangmeng | Hart | Emigration of Chinese Scientists and its Impacts on National Research Performance from a Sending Country Perspective |
WAHAB, Bilal A. | Shelley | Oil Federalism in Iraq: Resource Curse, Patronage Networks, and Stability. Case Studies of Baghdad, Kurdistan, and the Advent of ISIS (May 2015) |