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  • Essays in Applied Microeconomics

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    The first two chapters of my thesis are related to health economics, and explore how individual decisions affecting health can be impacted by different factors, including by government policy. The third chapter of my thesis (coauthored with Heyu Xiong) focuses on public economics in the Chinese context. >In the first...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Susan Ou
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    03/07/2019
    Date Modified:
    03/07/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on the Hospital Industry

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    This dissertation studies the forces that drive the allocation of patients to hospitals in the United States. Even though it seems there is some market discipline in the hospital industry, we observe that many patients go to hospitals far from the quality frontier and we still do not have a...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Mariano Irace
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    04/01/2019
    Date Modified:
    04/01/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Market Power in Markets for Power

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    I study how electricity generation firms exert market power, raising price above marginal cost. Typical studies of market power in electricity markets focus on how firms sustain markups in the short-run energy market. I explore other channels electricity generation firms use to strategically maximize profits. First, I analyze strategic investments...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Market Power
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    James Myatt
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    04/01/2019
    Date Modified:
    04/01/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in Labor Economics

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    This dissertation contains three chapters on two broad topics in labor economics: the determinants of early career outcomes and the impact of an aging population (and related policies). The first chapter investigates how the retirement slowdown among older Americans has affected the labor market prospects of younger Americans in recent...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Paul Hong-Lum
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    04/09/2019
    Date Modified:
    04/09/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays for equilibrium implementation in monetary models and international trade

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    We tackle two important theoretical problems in macroeconomics and international economics. First, in macroeconomics, especially monetary economics, the models with a standard Taylor rule have multiple equilibria. This multiplicity is problematic since we do not have a theory to determine a price level. We propose a theory to pin down...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Yuta Takahashi
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    10/28/2019
    Date Modified:
    10/28/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Unemployment, Education and Fertility

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    Understanding the role of heterogeneity across agents is crucial in predicting how the macroeconomic outcomes are affected by these differences. This dissertation presents three papers in which I study labor market outcomes of different segments of the population according to their choice of education and how labor market characteristics affect...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Sena Coskun
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    11/18/2019
    Date Modified:
    11/18/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics

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    I study three topics in applied microeconomics. My first chapter concerns the effect of daily school start times on academic achievement in Florida. Exploiting the sharp discontinuity in school start time relative to sunrise, I track children who move between schools on either side of the time zone boundary in...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Sam Norris
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    11/24/2019
    Date Modified:
    11/24/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation