http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7658 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42520 Economic stabilization policies in Argentina during Menem's presidency (1989-1991) Contreras, Ernesto Jorge Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1991. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-43). http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42395 Bombs and ballots : estimating the effect of the Madrid bombings on the March 2004 general elections in Spain Díez-Amigo, Sandro Whether or not the Madrid March 11th 2004 terrorist attacks affected the outcome of the Spanish general elections three days later has been the source of great controversy in the last years. This paper analyzes Spanish electoral data for the 2000 and 2004 Congressional elections, comparing the marginal effects of the proportion of voters who voted before the elections (and therefore, before the bombings in 2004) on the voting pattern in both years. A linear approach finds mild evidence that bombs undermined support for the incumbent conservative party and increased the share of the vote for the opposition socialists, similar to previous findings by Montalvo (2006) using a natural experiment design. A non-linear approach using binomial and multinomial logit models is not successful and yields no conclusive indications on how the attacks affected the outcome of the elections. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 22). http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39857 Economies of scale in the U.S. life insurance industry : an econometric analysis Daula, Thomas Vincent Thesis. 1976. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Microfiche copy available in Archives and Dewey. Bibliography: leaves 76-79. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28816 The incidence of U.S. agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates Kirwan, Barrett E., 1974- This paper identifies the effect of agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates in the United States. Rental agreements are primarily between farmers and non-farmer landlords, but no evidence exists concerning the incidence of subsidies on these two groups. By exploiting a unique policy change in 1996 and a nationally representative dataset of individual farms, I solve the endogeneity problem with fixed effects and instrumental variables techniques. I show that non-farmer landlords capture forty percent of the marginal subsidy dollar per acre. This finding is in sharp contrast to the basic assumptions in the literature that suggest full incidence on the landlords. I discuss possible characteristics of the farmland rental market that would result in less than perfect incidence. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36).