Title of Thesis: COMPARISON OF STRUCTURAL INTERACTION PATTERNS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN CLINICAL COUPLES: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES John Rennie Hart, M.S., 2012 Thesis Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Department of Family Science This study focused on degrees to which African American and Caucasian couples who have sought couple therapy at a community clinic...

In countries with well functioning credit markets, increases in financial activity often take the form of financial engineering. We use a structural framework to characterize and quantify the connection between financial engineering activities and economic development. In our model, producers split the stochastic cash flows they generate to create securities that appeal to investors with hetero...

U.S. corporations are obligated to file financial statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC ́s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system containing millions of financial statements is one of the most important sources of corporate information available. The paper illustrates which financial statements are publicly available by analyzing th...

financial markets are considered because of their role in acquiring small and large savings of national economy, optimizing the flow of financial resources and distributing these resources to consumption and investment needs of economic sectors. the aim of this study was investigating the influence of financial market extension on agriculturalsector’s development of kohgilouye and boyer ahmad p...

This paper studies the relationship of financial development and income inequality in China over the period of 1978-2013. Using the structural vector auto-regression (SVAR), the empirical results are consistent with the GJ hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relationship between financial development and income inequality. An economy in its initial stages of financial development would present i...