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- In this thesis, I study the effects of spillovers in all-pay auctions and the effects ofregulating wages and hours on the labor market. In the first chapter, I study a model of asymmetric all-pay auctions with spillovers. In this model, players compete for a prize, and the sunk effort players...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Thomas, Matthew W
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013829 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16767
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- Many estimation and inference procedures rely on asymptotic approximations for quantities that are unknown to researchers. While often convenient, such approximations can be poor in practice, even when the number of observations is ostensibly large. One response is to eschew asymptotics in favor of finite sample bounds. While remarkable progress...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Cai, Yong
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986619 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16598
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters about education policies in developing countries. The first chapter examines two extrapolation approaches to make out-of-sample predictions using cash transfer experiments in Malawi and Morocco. The second chapter evaluates India's workfare program in terms of targeting efficiency and effects on school enrollment, in comparison...
- Keyword:
- Education policy, Prediction, Development, Teacher union, Cash transfer program, and Workfare program
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Maeba, Kensuke
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985682 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16564
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- Description:
- This dissertation focuses on two topics in international macroeconomics: the identification of the international spillovers of US interest rate shocks, and the study of its main transmission channels. In Chapter 1, I present the Spillover Puzzle of US Monetary Policy - the fact that in response to a US interest...
- Keyword:
- International macroeconomics, International spillovers, Monetary policy, US interest rates, and Borrowing constraints
- Subject:
- Islamic studies and Economics
- Creator:
- Camara, Santiago
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16600 and etdadmin_upload_986672
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the economics of health and housing policies. In the first chapter, I discuss information disclosure policies in healthcare. Information disclosure programs can help consumers make better choices, but the consumers who respond the most to the information may not benefit the most or generate the most savings...
- Keyword:
- Health, Rent Control, Information Disclosure, and Applied Microeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Holz, Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985254 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16550
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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
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- Description:
- ``Hazy decisions: The effect of dementia on medical decision-making'' \\ I estimate the causal effect of having dementia on the course of treatment for unrelated diseases by leveraging differences in the relative time of onset of dementia and the other condition in a difference-in-differences event-study framework. To demonstrate this approach...
- Keyword:
- dementia, advance care planning, Alzheimer's disease, and medical procedure codes
- Subject:
- Economics, Health sciences, and Aging
- Creator:
- Paluszynska, Aleksandra Joanna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982106 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16498
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters on theoretical and empirical industrial organization. The first chapter highlights a previously unnoticed property of commonlyused discrete choice models, which is that they feature parallel demand curves. The second chapter studies how a behavioral consumer preference with “price reference effect” can overturn the standard...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Wang, Ting
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_985596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16562
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- Description:
- Increasingly, governments contract with private firms to provide publicly funded or subsidized goods and services, ranging from defense contracts, social insurance programs to small business loans. In such publicly funded, privately provided markets, governments set specific rules and policies to allow efficient provision or allocation of goods and services. Given...
- Keyword:
- Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Industrial Organization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kim, Paul HyungSuk
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_984537 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16535
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- Description:
- Social networks play a crucial role in developing economies. One of their most important functions is facilitating the flow of information, particularly about the efficacy of new technologies. This dissertation explores three aspects of this research agenda. First, I study how economists can estimate the structure of a social network...
- Keyword:
- uncertainty, social networks, risk aversion, penalized regression, and technology adoption
- Subject:
- Agriculture economics, Information science, and Economics
- Creator:
- Alidaee, Hossein
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986939 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16610
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- Description:
- This dissertation has three chapters. Chapter one evaluates the effects of Short-Time Workin Germany during the great financial crisis. Chapter two describes how British inventors during the industrial revolution worked on more central technologies. This in turn resulted in faster growth. Chapter three builds on a novel patent data set...
- Keyword:
- Economic History, Heterogeneous Agents, Search and Matching, Economic Growth, Short-Time Work, and Technology Network
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Hallmann, Carl Clemens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_980626 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16486
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- Description:
- How do exporting firms react to changes in the cost of credit? To answer this question, we exploit an exogenous variation in banking regulation which increases the cost of financ- ing for exports in the European Union. Using a unique dataset which combines customs, firm-level, and credit registry data on...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- da Costa Monteiro, Joao Miguel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_981993 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16495
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three markets with regulated prices. I focus on how these regulations shape the behavior of firms along non-price dimensions. Chapter 1 studies the effects of community rating regulations in the US individual health insurance exchange market. In this market, the Affordable Care Act established community rating areas...
- Keyword:
- Industrial organization, Health economics, and Applied microeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Geddes, Eilidh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16454 and etdadmin_upload_971770
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- Description:
- Chapter 1. Caste, Bureaucracy, and the Limits to Political Affirmative Action. The aim of political affirmative action policies is to ensure that disadvantaged groups are represented in their governments and, in turn, that laws preferred by this group are more likely to be instituted. Often, however, they have not been...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, affirmative action, contagion, caste, bureaucracy, and political economy
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Campillo Betancourt, Eduardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986068 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16575
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- Description:
- Technology that processes text, audio and video, as well as location data, has revolutionized many industries by enabling innovative operations for customer retention. To retain transactions for a platform and viewers for advertisers, this dissertation leverages novel digital tools to analyze consumer behavior, proposes original economic frameworks to guide platform...
- Keyword:
- Ad Avoidance, Multimedia Data, Platform, Geolocation, Machine Learning, and Disintermediation
- Subject:
- Marketing, Economics, and Information technology
- Creator:
- Xie, Yingkang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16589 and etdadmin_upload_986414
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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
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- Description:
- Monetary Policy plays a crucial role in modern economies by supporting price, financial and economic stability. Its efficacy, however, exhibits variation both over time and across space leading to partially unpredictable and inconsistent outcomes. This thesis shows that the variation in the efficacy of monetary policy crucially relates to the...
- Keyword:
- Market Structure, State-Dependent Effects, Loan and Deposit Interest Rates, Monetary Policy, Financial Intermediaries, and Heterogeneity
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Banking
- Creator:
- Puglisi, Federico
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_986697 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16603
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- Description:
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- Keyword:
- Rigidities, Rational Expectation, Agent-Based Modeling, Production Networks, Incomplete Information, and Latin Monetary Union
- Subject:
- Economic history, Economics, and Finance
- Creator:
- Pellet, Thomas Louis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16599 and etdadmin_upload_986621
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation, coauthored with Martin Eichenbaum and Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, addresses the question: how sensitive is the power of fiscal policy at the ZLB to the assumption of rational expectations? We do so through the lens of a standard NK model in which people are level-k thinkers....
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Teodoro Guerreiro, Joao Pedro
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_982742 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16503
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays in microeconomic theory. In the first two chapters, I study a class of partnerships where partners can exit and continue to free-ride on the remaining partners' efforts. The crucial force to deter players from strategic exiting is the ripple effect that it may trigger...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xu, Boli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16597 and etdadmin_upload_986567
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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
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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
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three chapters: two are empirical studies of policy design in small-business lending markets, while the final is a large-scale retrospective of retail mergers. Chapter 1 examines moral hazard in loan guarantee programs. To address credit constraints in small-business lending markets, policymakers frequently rely on loan guarantees,...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Stillerman, David
- 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:16040 and etdadmin_upload_900821
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies three aspects of healthcare market regulation. Chapter 1 studies the optimal design of quality scores for health insurance plans. Regulators often generate quality scores to help consumers with limited information about product quality, as in schooling, healthcare, and financial markets. When designing scores, regulators must not only...
- Keyword:
- Industrial organization, information design, medicare advantage, star ratings, and quality scores
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Vatter, Benjamin
- 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:15997 and etdadmin_upload_896226
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- Description:
- Individual responses are an important determinant of public policy effectiveness. Development policies often try to remove barriers that limit the ability to make the preferred choices, hoping that this will lead to prosperity at the individual and aggregate levels. However, removing some, but not all, barriers can lead to undesirable...
- Keyword:
- Economic History, Education Economics, Italy, Development Economics, Peru, and Labor Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Magnaricotte, Matteo
- 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:16066 and etdadmin_upload_902256
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- Description:
- In most markets, consumers of goods and services have vastly more options available to them than they will consider closely. At the point of making a decision, consumers are choosing between only a small subset (i.e., a consideration set) of all possible alternatives. The preceding process that forms these consideration...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Lam, Honn Tai
- 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:16063 and etdadmin_upload_902107
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two chapters. The first one is on microenterprises in developing countries and how they face competition from large corporations. The second one is on estimating the causal effect of childcare availability on the formation and persistence of gender gaps in the Mexican labor market. The first chapter...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Talamas Marcos, Miguel Angel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_898300 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16012
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- Description:
- Political stability is fundamental for economic development. Understanding the determinants and consequences of political stability is thus an important topic in development economics and political economy. This dissertation studies how political or economic instability influences economic development and, in turn, how economic factors influence political stability. In Chapter 1, I...
- Keyword:
- political stability, political economy, development economics, and economic history
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Mueller, Joris Michael
- 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:16026 and etdadmin_upload_900014
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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
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation looks at strategic complementarities among investors inpooled investment vehicles where fund managers and investors have different objectives. Could lessening strategic complementarities among the investors of a fund make investing in the fund less appealing? Exploiting the 2014 Reform of the money market mutual fund...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- troiano, adriana
- 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:15925 and etdadmin_upload_879002
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- Description:
- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16055 and etdadmin_upload_901777
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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
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- Description:
- I examine economic design issues in the realm of dynamic organ allocation for transplantation and behavioral market design/contract theory. The second and third chapters focus on two issues in the design of the U.S. deceased-donor organ allocation system, which represents the majority of transplants performed in the U.S. In contrast...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Munoz-Rodriguez, Edwin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/06/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_841815 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15703
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- Description:
- In my dissertation I explore several applications of collective household models with limited commitment to study the behavior of singles and couples in the modern US marriage markets in presence of endogenous risk of divorce. In the first chapter, I show that the model is capable of rationalizing the patterns...
- Keyword:
- household behavior, family economics, marriage and divorce, and macroeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kozlov, Egor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_820517 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15596
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- Description:
- This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter one studies changes in market concentration and productivity growth in the United States from the 1990s to the 2010s. Chapter two measures the impact of a banking crisis, the British Panic of 1825, on non-financial firms. Chapter three examines how women's employment...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane
- 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:15575 and etdadmin_upload_819365
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- Description:
- Chapter 1: Despite the rapid growth of passive ownership over the past 30 years, there is no consensus on how or why passive ownership affects stock price informativeness. This paper provides a new answer to this question by examining how passive ownership changes investors' incentives to acquire information. I develop...
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Sammon, Marco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818012 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15554
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three essays on spatially differentiated markets. Generally, I explore how firms and consumers behave in such markets using structural modeling, causal inference and machine learning techniques, as well as high-resolution spatial data. In the first chapter, I study the efficiency of firm location configurations in the...
- Keyword:
- spatial competition, stadiums, applied econometrics, industrial organization, spatial spillovers, and food service
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sedov, Dmitry
- 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:15552 and etdadmin_upload_817827
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- Description:
- This thesis considers identification, estimation, and inference in nonparametric settings. Special attention is given to identification with instrumental variables of small support, and in time series via the ergodic assumption. Chapter 1 considers a nonparametric instrumental regression model in which the regressor and instrument are discretely distributed. Here, we strengthen...
- Keyword:
- Instrumental variables and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Loh, Isaac
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_822161 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15599
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory. The first chapter is co-authored with Gregorio Curello. We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Sinander, Carl Martin Ludvig
- 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:15505 and etdadmin_upload_806322
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two studies. In Chapter 1 we investigate the relationshipbetween expansionary credit events and firms’ employment decisions. To overcome the endogeneity coming from the supply side of credit we exploit the legal and political framework in Mexico to examine the effects of local governments’ prepayment of loans, a...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Acosta, Roman
- 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:15593 and etdadmin_upload_820097
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomics with heterogeneous households. In the first chapter, I document that spousal labor supply substantially mitigates the impact of cyclical labor income risk on married households. Motivated by this evidence, I present a macroeconomic model with incomplete markets in which households are heterogeneous...
- Keyword:
- labor market, general equilibrium, and heterogeneous agents
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bardoczy, Bence
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_818634 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15564
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- Description:
- This dissertation consists of three chapters on topics in economic theory. In Chapter 1, "Subjective Complexity Under Uncertainty", I propose and axiomatize a model of choice under uncertainty in which the size of the partition with respect to which an act is measurable arises endogenously as a measure of subjective...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Valenzuela-Stookey, Quitze
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_813507 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15518
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