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  • Essays in Mechanism Design

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    This dissertation comprises three distinct essays in mechanism design and economic theory. The first chapter studies the welfare implications of consumer data ownership and voluntary disclosure. I formalize this setting within a model of mechanism design with evidence and construct the seller's optimal mechanism. Perhaps surprisingly, I find that allowing...
    Keyword:
    Evidence, Mechanism Design, and Robust Contract
    Subject:
    Economic theory
    Creator:
    Vaidya, Udayan
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_982001 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16496

  • Essays in Experimentation and Learning

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    Description:
    This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory, yet all are related to experimentation and learning. In the first chapter, I study how organizations assign tasks to identify the best candidate to promote among a pool of workers. Task allocation and workers’ motivation interact through the organization’s...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Durandard, Théo
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_985129 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16547

  • Information Design and Asymmetric Auction

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    Description:
    This dissertation contains two topics. The first topic focuses on how to use information design to minimize costs of implementing a policy that guarantees 100% passing rate of all participants by providing enough compensation for the their effort. The second topic explores an auction setting which involves financially distressed business...
    Keyword:
    auction and information design
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Ma, Jiachen
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    09/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_917490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16160

  • Essays in economic theory

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    Description:
    The first chapter of the dissertation analyzes a moral hazard problem where a firm incentivizes a team of complementary workers in the presence of trust concerns. As we show, when concerned about team members not trusting each other, the firm typically sacrifices statistically-relevant information, compensating some workers based solely on...
    Subject:
    Economic theory
    Creator:
    Camboni, Matteo
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_900398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16031

  • Essays on Incentives in Organizations

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies the limitations of incentive design in organizations and how they lead to inefficient outcomes. Chapter 1 studies how a coalition coordinates its members when they freely join and leave. It characterizes the conditions under which such coordination prevents the coalition from forming in the first place. In...
    Keyword:
    Performance Manipulation, Coalition Formation, Coalition, Delegation, Incentives, and Organization
    Subject:
    Management, Organization theory, and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Yan, Ruozhou
    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:16048 and etdadmin_upload_901237

  • Essays on Dynamic Decisions Under Uncertainty

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    Description:
    This dissertation comprises three essays that study dynamic decisions under uncertainty--in particular, ambiguity. The first two chapters develop new decision models that emphasize the role of making statistical inferences in decisions. The third chapter highlights, in the context of persuasion, how different decision models can lead to distinct conclusions in...
    Keyword:
    Persuasion, Updating, Dynamic Decision, Ambiguity, Robust Decision, and Learning
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Cheng, Xiaoyu
    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:16047 and etdadmin_upload_901139

  • Essays on Optimal Taxation

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    Description:
    This thesis revisits classic optimal tax theory, recognizing that most people live in multi-person households. We derive optimal tax schedules for married agents, seriously taking the distinction between interpersonal and interhousehold inequality. After showing how individual-oriented utilitarianism typically leads to a misalignment between the households’ and the government’s objectives, which...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Alves, Cassiano Breno Machado
    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:16087 and etdadmin_upload_903101

  • Complexity in Economic Theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation leverages methodologies from computer science to understand sources of complexity in economic theory. Chapter 1 considers time complexity: how much time is needed to make a decision. Chapters 2 and 3 consider informational complexity: how much and what kind of data is needed to make a decision. I...
    Subject:
    Economic theory
    Creator:
    Camara, Modibo Khane
    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:16110 and etdadmin_upload_904132

  • Essays in Non-Bayesian Information Transmission

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies interactions between a non-Bayesian decision maker (DM) and a sophisticated information provider who wants to influence the DM. In the essay ``Strategic Justifications," an auditor receives a justification from a self-interested expert who wants to convince the auditor that she acted in good faith for her clients....
    Keyword:
    Persuasion, Frequentist, Non-Bayesian, Expert-Client, and Fiduciary duty
    Subject:
    Economic theory
    Creator:
    Patil, Sanket Ramakant
    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:16062 and etdadmin_upload_902048

  • 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