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  • Essays in Development Economics

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    AbstractThis dissertation consists of three papers examining economic issues in developing countries. The first paper studies how export activity affects prices in domestic consumer markets. Using extensive, spatially disaggregated data from India’s rice markets and exploiting a natural experiment provided by India’s rice export restrictions during 2007-2011, I show that,...
    Subject:
    Agriculture economics and Economics
    Creator:
    Manjeer, Utsav
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15595 and etdadmin_upload_820489

  • Essays on Macroeconomics and Trade

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    Description:
    This thesis contains three chapters studying macroeconomics and trade. The chapters are organized into two topics: inflation expectations and perceptions, and the effect of trade intermediation on economic activity. In the first chapter, I investigate whether households are significantly harmed by inaccurate beliefs about inflation. The chapter analyzes two established...
    Keyword:
    Entrepot, Surveys, Inflation Perceptions, Interest Rates, and Savings Behavior
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Montag, Hugh
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15109 and etdadmin_upload_743158

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    Description:
    In Chapter 1, I analyze optimal capital structure using a model in which firms issue securities in order to (1) finance investments in operations and (2) recapitalize the firm. In this trade-off model, firms balance the tax benefits of debt against the costs of financial distress. Key to the analysis,...
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Hu, Jingxiong
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_986275 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16585

  • Essays on Pharmaceutical Company Payments to Healthcare Providers

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    Description:
    Pharmaceutical companies pay more than $2 billion to physicians every year. Most of these payments are for food and beverage, speaking, honoraria, consulting, and travel and lodging, which are termed “general payments.” These payments have come under increased scrutiny as critics of pharmaceutical promotion argue that they influence prescribing in...
    Keyword:
    Prescriptions, Pharmaceutical company payments, Pharmaceuticals, and Advertising
    Subject:
    Marketing, Economics, and Health care management
    Creator:
    Cakkalkurt, Hasat
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/01/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15216 and etdadmin_upload_760464

  • Three Essays in Macroeconomics

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    Description:
    In this dissertation, I cover three different topics in macroeconomics. In Chapter 1, I explore the macroeconomic implications of an increase in business competition and its micro transmission channels. In Chapter 2, I document a rise in savings and cash holdings by non-financial corporations across advanced economies and show that...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Maggi, Chiara
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_661210 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14602

  • Quality in Markets for American Physicians, 1880-1914

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    Description:
    Chapter 1: If patients can be persuaded to switch between licensed providers on the basis of authoritative opinions, policy-makers can harness such reporting as a tool to implement incentives for high-quality care. I employ the landmark Flexner Report (1910) medical school evaluations to show that existing consumer beliefs and market-specific...
    Keyword:
    Physicians, Homeopathy, Quality, Reporting, Medical Ethics, and Altruism
    Subject:
    Economic history and Economics
    Creator:
    Andrews, Brendon Patrick
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/16/2023
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16342 and etdadmin_upload_944681

  • Essays in Development Economics

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    Description:
    Economic development is a complex and multi-faceted process. Among its many causes, two are particularly consequential: government and technology. By shaping the landscape of economic incentives, they impact how agents interact, invest, and innovate, which in turn affects the creation of wealth. In this dissertation I explore how this interaction...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Dahis, Ricardo
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_819533 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15580

  • Essays on Incentives and Organizations

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    Description:
    Economic activity is mostly performed by groups of agents that form organizations and collectives. In this dissertation I explore the effects of two frictions, namely conflicting preferences and contracting with externalities, on the characteristics of agents that jointly constitute a given organization or collective. First, in many professional environments workers...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    ESPITIA DE LA HOZ, Andres
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16055 and etdadmin_upload_901777

  • Essays on Contract Theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on contract theory. In Chapter 1, ``Agency in Hierarchies: Middle Managers and Performance Evaluations'', I study the optimal joint design of incentives and performance rating scales in a principal-manager-worker hierarchy. The principal wants to motivate the manager and the worker to exert unobservable effort....
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Brasiliense de Castro Pires, Henrique
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16007 and etdadmin_upload_897826

  • Efficient Estimation with Smooth Penalization

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    Description:
    This dissertation proposes an oracle efficient estimator in the context of a sparse linear model. Chapter 1 introduces the penalty and the estimator that optimizes a penalized least squares objective. Unlike existing methods, the penalty is differentiable – once, and hence the estimator does not engage in model selection. This...
    Keyword:
    Lasso, Econometrics, Sparsity, Penalized estimation, and Bootstrap
    Subject:
    Statistics and Economics
    Creator:
    Gitlin, Sergey
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_682504 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14786