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Essays in Consumer Debt, Personal Saving Rate, and Household Insolvency in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)This thesis consists of three essays attempting to determine the key determinants of spending-saving behaviour and financial stability of Canadian households from both micro and macro economics. In the first chapter, we ... -
Essays in Corporate Prediction Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-22)Personal subjective opinions are one of the most important assets in management. Prediction markets are mechanisms that can be deployed to elicit and aggregate a group of people’s opinions regarding the outcome of future ... -
Essays in Earnings, Academic Productivity, and School Competition
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating current issues in earnings, academic productivity, and school competition. The first chapter, coauthored with Anindya Sen, looks at returns to post-secondary ... -
Essays in Risk Management for Crude Oil Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)This thesis consists of three essays on risk management in crude oil markets. In the first essay, the valuation of an oil sands project is studied using real options approach. Oil sands production consumes substantial ... -
Essays in Wealth Effect, Family Structure, and Female Labour Supply
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-27)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating topics in family structure, household wealth, and married women's labour decisions using Canadian data. The twentieth century has seen significant changes ... -
Essays on building and evaluating two-stage DEA models of efficiency and effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-27)Researchers are not consistent in their choice of input and output variables when using two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) models to measure efficiency and effectiveness. This inconsistency has resulted in the ... -
Essays on Innovation, Patents, and Econometrics
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-03)This thesis investigates the impact of fragmentation in the ownership of complementary patents or patent thickets on firms' market value. This question is motivated by the increase in the patent ownership fragmentation ... -
Essays on International Venture Capital
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-21)Venture Capital firms (VCs), compared with other sources of financing, are known to be a value-adding source of finance for high-growth entrepreneurial firms. Venture capital has transitioned from a local to an international ... -
Essays on Portfolio Selection, Continuous-time Analysis, and Market Incompleteness
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-05)This thesis consists of three self-contained essays evaluating topics in portfolio selection, continuous-time analysis, and market incompleteness. The two opposing investment strategies, diversification and concentration, ... -
The Essence of Objects and Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-16)Every substance in the universe has its own identity that defines what it is. The essence is the property that entity and object have by necessity, without which, it loses its nature. This research aims to explore the idea ... -
Establishing a Connection Between Graph Structure, Logic, and Language Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-08)The field of graph structure theory was given life by the Graph Minors Project of Robertson and Seymour, which developed many tools for understanding the way graphs relate to each other and culminated in the proof of the ... -
Establishing a Foothold: An Economic, Social and Cultural Model of Integration for New Canadians
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)With Canada’s rapidly aging population and low birth rate, immigration is critical to the future of the country and Toronto, as a gateway city and one of the most multicultural and multiracial cities in the world, is a ... -
Establishing baseline travel patterns from smart-phone and spatial data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-19)Investment in public transit infrastructure and services is essential to providing effective transportation alternatives, and it is important to monitor the progress of key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure goals of ... -
Establishing Confidence Level Measurements for Remote User Authentication in Privacy-Critical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-23)User Authentication is the process of establishing confidence in the User identities presented to an information system. This thesis establishes a method of assigning a confidence level to the output of a user authentication ... -
Establishing Legitimacy in the Face of a Dominant Amateur Sport Organization: A Case Study of True Hockey
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-04)The context of sport is ripe with instances of change, despite the depiction of long-term stability (Washington & Patterson, 2011). Within amateur sport—in particular, youth sport—criticism of the increased standardization ... -
Establishing Metrics to Quantify the Vulnerability of Municipal Supply Wells to Contaminants from Surface Water Sources
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-22)This study was completed in conjunction with the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and the Southern Ontario Water Consortium, with assistance from the Canadian Water Network and Grand River Conservation Area with the main ... -
Establishing the Construct of Boredom as Distinct From Apathy, Anhedonia and Depression
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-28)Boredom is a common human experience that has received little attention in the literature. To date, researchers have been unable to agree on a unified theory and definition of the construct. The present study investigated ... -
Establishing the Effect of Vibration and Postural Constraint Loading on the Progression of Intervertebral Disc Herniation
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)Intervertebral disc herniations have been indicated as a possible injury development pathway due to occupational vibration exposures in seated postures through epidemiological investigations. Little experimental evidence ... -
Establishing the Virucidal Properties of a Copper-Nickel-Zinc Alloy using a Genetically Modified Insect Virus
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) cause a significant financial burden on the healthcare industry. To reduce incidence of HAIs, strategies for cleaning and infection control have been developed to target common ... -
Establishing Viable Systems for the Recombinant Production of Haemophilus influenzae Immunoglobulin A1 Protease
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-20)Immunoglobulin A1 proteases (IgAPs) are a family of enzymatic virulence factors secreted from a wide variety of pathogenic bacteria known to infect human mucosal surfaces. Once secreted, IgAPs cleave and inactivate the ...