Over the past couple of decades, rising oil prices have had a positive impact on the alternative energy industry because of the substitution effect. In a society that is growingly concerned about environmental sustainability, ...

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 ...

The aim of this study is to measure the impact that individuals’ health and human capital has on their Income. We also want to measure the impact on income when health and human capital are interacting together. Using the ...

This thesis addresses the effects of seventeen chronic health conditions as defined by the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey on labour market outcomes as measured by their labour force status: employed full-time, ...

At first, this study was going to analyze Canadian youth aging out of the foster care system, but due to the fact that there is no national dataset compiled, this was not possible. Using national data from the United States ...

The Government of Canada will spend $20.1 billion over the next ten years, through the Budget 2017, to improve public transit infrastructure in Canada. Previous literature shows that public transit can reduce traffic ...

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 ...

The rapid increase in the number of international students worldwide is a sign of globalization in the economy. Yet, few Canadians choose to study abroad, even thought the government encourages them to go abroad. To the ...