This thesis delves into the competitiveness of North American Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in an increasingly global marketplace. It examines how they fare against increased competition from low-wage countries such ...

What role, if any, can financial technology adoption play in determining the capital structure and growth of financial markets? This thesis analyzes the dynamics of cross-country capital market development by examining ...

This thesis investigates the effects of sovereign credit default spreads and the national current account balance on the health of a country’s banking sector as measured by the Bank Z-score. To this end, we use a cross-country ...