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  • Essays on Housing and Macroeconomics

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    This dissertation consists of three essays on housing and macroeconomics. The first chapter explores the impact of demographic change on housing price using a heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model. The second chapter examines the relationship between the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) and the housing choice. The third chapter presents...
    Keyword:
    overlapping generation model, housing, consumption, and demographics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Matsumura, Kohei
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_903491 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16101

  • Empirical Studies of Auctions and Consumer Demand

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on empirical industrial organization. The first chapter explores how a seller uses a public reserve price to signal her private info about the object’s value to the bidder. The second chapter studies how a behavioral consumer preference called “price reference effect” could overturn the...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Guan, Junyan
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_898157 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16009

  • Essays in Macroeconomics

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    Description:
    In the first Chapter of this Dissertation, I develop an integrated reasoning model of expectations formation to describe how people learn the effects of novel macroeconomic policies. My model of expectations has two key elements. First, people have a limited ability to understand the general-equilibrium effects of a new policy....
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Bianchi Vimercati, Riccardo
    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:16016 and etdadmin_upload_898676

  • Essays in Economic History and Political Economy

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    Description:
    Chapter 1 proposes and tests a model where a country aligns with a foreign power to obtain its support and reduce its geopolitical risks, which also depend on the country's exposure to the other foreign powers. We show that the country's alignment with a given foreign power is increasing in...
    Keyword:
    Interstate Alignment, Internal Conflicts, Geopolitics, Political Favoritism, and Social Status
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Porcellacchia, Michael Franco
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_902835 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16076

  • 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

  • Essays in Real Estate Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters that each study the interaction between government policy and real estate markets. All three chapters are connected by a broad interest in renters, landlords, and rental markets. Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between place-based policies and real estate and rental markets empirically by studying...
    Keyword:
    Rental Markets, Real Estate, and Finance
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Hair, Christopher
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_902849 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16077

  • Essays on Macroeconomic Aspects of Economic Development

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    Description:
    The three essays composing this dissertation are unified by their focus on the macroeconomic aspects of economic development. In Chapter one titled "Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries'', I study the effects of weak land property rights and limited access to finance on aggregate productivity...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Manysheva, Kristina
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_899100 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16021

  • Essays on Recursive Preferences

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    Description:
    Models of recursive preferences are commonly associated with a preference for early resolution of uncertainty, often regarded as an important economic channel in applications. This dissertation provides a different understanding of recursive preferences based on attitudes toward correlation, and in particular aversion to intertemporally correlated risks. Part 1 provides a...
    Keyword:
    Risk, Ambiguity, Robustness, Uncertainty, and Prior selection
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Stanca, Lorenzo Maria
    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:15985 and etdadmin_upload_891458

  • 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