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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
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- Households in emerging markets hold significant amounts of dollar deposits while firms have significant amounts of dollar debt. Motivated by the perceived dangers, policymakers often develop regulations to limit dollarization. In this paper, I draw attention to an important benefit of dollarization, which should be taken into account when crafting...
- Keyword:
- Financial Dollarization and Emerging Markets
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Husnu C Dalgic
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/18/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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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
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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
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- This dissertation studies three topics in labor and public economics. The first chapter examines the local economic consequences of prisons using two complementary approaches. The first uses the openings of 230 prisons during the 1990s across the entire United States, and the second uses a quasi-experimental strategy that compares winning...
- Keyword:
- Local labor market, Prison, Mortality, House price, Volatility, and Heating price
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Janjala Chirakijja
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- According to contemporary estimates, the 1933 Soviet famine killed six to eight million people, more than two million of them in Ukraine. This dissertation studies causes and consequences of this famine. ', 'Chapter one evaluates the causes of the 1933 famine offered by historians in Ukrainian context. Three main explanations...
- Keyword:
- multiple equilibria, Ukraine, genocide, collectivization, central planning, and famine
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Natalya Naumenko
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/21/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays in Microeconomic Theory that study the interplay between mechanism and information design, provide insights into the design of efficient dispute resolution mechanisms for partnerships, and analyze the stability of fractional matchings in two-sided markets.', "In the first chapter, we study the optimal disclosure policy...
- Keyword:
- fractional matchings, matching, information design, partnership dissolution, mechanism design, and information disclosure
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bela Szabadi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation is a collection of three essays that study (dynamic) incentive provision in multi-agent settings with asymmetric information: delegation of projects in organizations, dynamic matching on a platform, and arbitration between partners in a dispute.', "The first chapter studies dynamic delegation of heterogeneous projects to agents with diverse capabilities....
- Keyword:
- Arbitration, Dynamic Delegation, Partnerships, Mechanism Design, Information Economics, and Dynamic Matching
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Daniel Fershtman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Modified:
- 10/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My dissertation consists of two chapters that empirically study policy-related questions in applied microeconomics by using structural econometric modeling developed in industrial organization. In the first chapter, I study the welfare effects of a cap-and-trade program. I develop an equilibrium framework that incorporates forward-looking behavior and transaction costs. In the...
- Keyword:
- electricity, investment, election, voter turnout, cap-and-trade, and preference aggregation
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yuta Toyama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 1/1/2018
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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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
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- I describe a novel panel dataset on the U.S. primary care physician population, as well as the institutions and measurement strategies used to study physician behavior in the marketplace. I document several facts on primary care markets and supplier location decisions, the types of patients physicians accept, the scale of...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Organization, Economics of Healthcare, and Economics of Discrimination
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- David Benson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/09/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Endogenous growth theory has long recognized innovation as one of the key drivers of growth. Understanding what factors encourage or discourage innovative activities and how, in turn, these affect our communities is therefore crucial to inspire policies that promote inclusive growth. This dissertation tries to broaden our comprehension of the...
- Keyword:
- Economics of Innovation, Economic Geography, Urban Economics, Patents, and Macroeconomics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Enrico Berkes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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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
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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
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- Dissertation
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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
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- This dissertation consists of two papers united by a common element: they both study the behavior of heterogeneous agents across the business cycle. In Chapter 1, I consider: what is the link between the drop in consumer credit during the Great Recession and increased unemployment? I build a heterogeneous household...
- Keyword:
- recession, exit, unemployment, entry, productivity, and credit
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brian Boyd O'Quinn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/11/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation looks at the consequences of three different government regulatory policies---the nondistribution constraint (which prohibits managers of nonprofit organizations from distributing profits generated by the nonprofit organization to themselves), the 100/0, 85/15, and 90/10 rules (which restrict the fraction of revenue for-profit colleges and universities can receive from Title...
- Keyword:
- Industrial Organization, Prohibition, Nonprofit Organizations, and Higher Education
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Brent Travis Howe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/10/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Keyword:
- first-price auctions, sample complexity, auctions, and revenue maximization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Samuel Taggart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- While it is the ongoing growth in healthcare spending that has been making headlines, improving and maintaining healthcare quality is a critical goal of healthcare policy. In this dissertation I answer three questions relating to healthcare quality: does physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare quality; how physician-hospital financial integration improves healthcare...
- Keyword:
- quality, healthcare, malpractice, and integration
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amy Rebecca Wagner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
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- Dissertation
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- This dissertation analyzes the role of price advertising in the retail grocery setting, first exploring how consumers use price advertising in their shopping location decisions, and then considering ways in which retailers use price advertising to maximize store traffic and profits, given consumer use of information. Chapter 2 provides a...
- Keyword:
- retail advertising, price advertising, advertising, retail competition, and store choice
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Thor Sletten
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the first part of the dissertation, I investigate the nature of retail coupons, a popular tool for non-price competition. The widely expressed view that coupons are primarily a tool to allow price discrimination has received mixed empirical supports. I depart from the static framework of the price discrimination theory...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yongbae Lee
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Game Theory is the branch of applied mathematics that studies the strategic interaction among intelligent agents. So far, standard Game Theory literature has interpreted "intelligent agents" exclusively as "rational agents". This work points out that this interpretation is an important limitation since intelligence consists of more abilities, some of which...
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Arnau Bages Amat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- We first introduce the concept of copulas and advocate its use for multivariate option pricing. We focus on four types of bivariate options: basket, rainbow-max, rainbow-min, and spread options. We derive expressions for these options as a function of the copula. We then construct pricing bounds for these bivariate options...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Jesse De Lille
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Chapter 1: (Bounds on the Counterfactual Revenue Distributions in Auctions with Reserve Prices) In first-price auctions with interdependent bidder values, the distributions of private signals and values cannot be uniquely recovered from bids in Bayesian Nash equilibria. Non-identification invalidates structural analyses that rely on exact identification of the model primitives....
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xun Tang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The main theme of this dissertation are departures from standard assumptions in economic theory, specifically, departures from the model of subjective expected utility in decision theory. Part 1 axiomatizes the robust control criterion of multiplier preferences introduced by Hansen and Sargent (2001). The axiomatization shows that the class of multiplier...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Tomasz J Strzalecki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-08-19
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Several semiparametric estimators recently developed in the econometrics literature are based on the rank correlation between the dependent and explanatory variables. Examples include the maximum rank correlation estimator (MRC) of Han (1987), the monotone rank estimator (MR) of Cavanagh and Sherman (1998), the pairwise-difference rank estimators (PDR) of Abrevaya (2003),...
- Keyword:
- Maximum rank correlation estimator, Bootstrap, Monotone rank estimator, Efficiency, Semiparametric models, and U-Processes
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Viktor Yevgenyevich Subbotin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-25
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis is organized into three essays, each with particular insights involving public policy and family formation: In the first essay, I address the well-documented correlation between the prestige of the university and the labor market income of its graduates by investigating whether a possible medium for this effect is...
- Keyword:
- College Major, Education, Marriage, Financial Aid, and Divorce
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Benjamin Walter Bohdan Passty
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The expansion of public education at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound effect on the American economy. This dissertation explores the impact of changing educational institutions on both individuals and communities with a study of Iowa during its introduction of modern grammar schools and high schools during...
- Keyword:
- History and Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- John Michael Parman
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-26
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I show that the speed of price adjustment to aggregate technology shocks is substantially larger than to monetary policy shocks. In the context of large Bayesian Vector Autoregression models, I establish that aggregate and disaggregate prices adjust very quickly to technology shocks, while they only respond sluggishly to monetary policy...
- Keyword:
- real effects of monetary policy shocks, difference in price responsiveness, aggregate technology shocks, rational inattention, and sticky prices
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Luigi Paciello
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the first chapter we analyze profits and efficiency implications of a relation between an upstream duopoly and downstream monopoly in Hotelling linear city model. While exclusive contracts maximize the monopolist's profit, at the same time socially they are inefficient. Linear prices, while more efficient, usually also do not achieve...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Jakub Kaluzny
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays on the identification analysis of econometric models. The first essay explores the identification question in semiparametric binary response models when all regressors have discrete support. I suggest a recursive procedure that finds sharp bounds on the parameter of interest and can be applied to...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Tatiana Komarova
- Owner:
- Jason Christ Chandra
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-10-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the first part of the dissertation I study mechanism design under limited communication. Chapter 1 offers a detailed analysis of auctions with simultaneous limited communication. I solve for both welfare and revenue maximizing equilibria. The striking feature of optimal equilibria is that they are asymmetric even when the setup...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Nenad Kos
- Owner:
- Jason Christ Chandra
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The goal of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of the driving forces behind short-term movements in important aggregate variables such as exports, imports, the trade balance, output, investment, and employment. The first chapter contrasts the cyclical behavior of the trade balance and trade flows in a group of...
- Keyword:
- Business Cycles, Trade, Supply and Demand Shocks, Macroeconomics, and Emerging Economy
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Reinout De Bock
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-06-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation is composed of three chapters, each contributing to different aspects of the literature of partially identified econometric models. In the first chapter, I introduce a bootstrap procedure to perform inference in the class of partially identified econometric models defined by finitely many moment equalities and inequalities. I provide...
- Keyword:
- Inference, Partial Identification, Bootstrap, Set Identification, and Hypothesis testing
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Federico Andres Bugni
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Ethicity, race and gender play an important role in labor markets; labor market outcomes such as hiring and compensation are very different across different social groups. These differentials are partly the result of differences in productivity and preferences and partly the result of discrimination. Chapter two uses an audit study...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Zahra Siddique
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/12/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Institutions are an important determinant of a society's economic performance. To understand why institutions affect economic activity we have to understand how they affect people's incentives in the economy. The patterns of social interaction and beliefs in a society determine the choice of institution. This dissertation focuses on societies where...
- Keyword:
- Bride price, Institutions, Dowry, and Caste System
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Kripa Freitas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/11/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-12
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I study the problem of choice between two treatments for a population of observationally identical individuals based on statistical evidence about average treatment effects that does not reveal the best treatment with certainty. I approach the problem from the perspective of statistical decision theory, derive treatment rules that minimize maximum...
- Keyword:
- statistical decision theory, treatment choice, minimax regret, partial identification, and ambiguity
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Aleksey Tetenov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/08/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation formulates, solves and estimates dynamic stochastic games to answer various questions that arise in Industrial Organization. First chapter is a "theoretic" investigation of learning-by-doing and organizational forgetting that shows them to be distinct economic forces whose interplay gives rise to aggressive pricing behavior, market dominance, and multiple equilibria....
- Keyword:
- dynamic, organization, game, industrial, stochastic, and MPE
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Yaroslav Kryukov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation analyzes how individuals choose college majors. The choice of college major is treated as one made under uncertainty. Understanding any decision under uncertainty requires one to study how expectations and preferences are used to make the choice. However, since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of...
- Keyword:
- expectations, education, and social interactions
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Basit Zafar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Chapter one investigates the impact of agents' expectations about future fundamental economic disturbances (news) on macroeconomic dynamics. Several intuitive tests provide insight into the information content of the yield curve and its' ability to identify these 'news' disturbances. Bayesian estimation of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model using conventional...
- Keyword:
- term, rates, news, structure, equilibrium, and Interest
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Joshua Mark Davis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-02
- Resource Type:
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- The three empirical analyses in this dissertation study the effects of workers' compensation benefits on individual behavior and household consumption as well as the impacts of workplace injuries and illnesses on economic outcomes for affected workers. In Chapter 2, I study incentive effects of state workers' compensation programs, exploiting substantial...
- Keyword:
- social insurance, economics, injuries, and workers' compensation
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Erin Todd Bronchetti
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the first chapter of my dissertation, I study the effects of an exogenous increase in government spending in models incorporating price and wage nominal rigidities. I find that the effects of price stickiness on the output multiplier depend crucially on the behavior of the monetary authority. If the monetary...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Dimitre Todorov Milkov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-13
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- This collection of essays on horizontal merger enforcement and dynamic contract breach addresses the question of what role, if any, should government play in enforcing the contracts of private parties? The government's appropriate role in these various settings depends, among other things, on the nature of the competition between private...
- Keyword:
- Contract Breach, Efficiency Gains, Breach Damages, Horizontal Mergers, and Antitrust
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Fan Zhang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores price differences observed in the market. While some differences are necessitated by market conditions, the others are strategic. I illustrate the former in a study of electricity spot markets in Italy and the latter for the video rental industry. The first project examines the welfare gains from...
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Viswanath Pingali
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-23
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- This dissertation develops dynamic models to examine markets with product differentiation where both firm conduct and consumer behavior is jointly influenced by switching costs, network effects and technological innovation. In Chapter 1 I propose a structural model of competition where firms set prices, introduce new products and scrap obsolete models....
- Keyword:
- Economics and General
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Joao Carlos Macieira
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-20
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- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. "Unravelling" arises when agents contract with one another at an early stage, before much of the relevant information is available. Such early matches may lead to ex-post inefficiencies and are perceived as socially harmful. This study...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Hanna Wieslawa Halaburda
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-06-22
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation analyzes the decision process of firms along two dimensions which are central to the field of macroeconomics. First, we study the pricing decision of the firm in a framework where customer base matters. Surveys of managers show that the main reason why firms keep prices stable is that...
- Keyword:
- customer base, price stickiness, Tobin's Q, market share, and investment behavior
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Nicolas Vincent
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 05-09-2007
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The ready-mix concrete industry is a fascinating laboratory for the study of industry dynamics. Concrete plants produce a single homogeneous product with technology and equipment that has changed little over the last 50 years. Building a plant entails substantial sunk costs since the machinery used to produce ready-mix cannot easily...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Allan Collard-Wexler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-16
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This thesis comprises three essays addressing theory and evidence on the household response to tax-favored saving incentive schemes, with a particular emphasis on household risk taking. The US tax code and related regulatory institutions offer a variety of incentives to encourage US households to save and participate in risky investment...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Damien Leslie Moore
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- I study several aspects of a game-theoretic model of persuasion. A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to take an action which is highly ranked by the speaker. The listener knows the speaker's preference but is uncertain about what the speaker can say. The listener can commit to a persuasion...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Itai Sher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Social networks play an important role in the labor market. Various surveys document that 30-60% of jobs are found through friends or relatives. To better understand how networks operate in the labor market, I examine how networks that were formed involuntarily as a result of the American Civil War and...
- Keyword:
- Employment, First World War Veterans, Identification, Social Interactions, Civil War Veterans, and Multiple Reference Groups
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Ron Laschever
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze, using standard formal imperfect competition models from the literature, two central public policy issues in the deregulated wholesale electricity markets. The first issue is the regulatory rules around generator ownership of transmission companies or transmission rights in general. The second issue we look into is...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Theory
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Serhan Ogur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-03
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Should the government subsidize entry to promote competition? In theory, free entry does not guarantee the socially optimum number of entrants. In differentiated product markets, free entry can result either in excessive or insufficient entry. Quantifying this inefficiency and identifying the optimal subsidy level require an empirical framework that combines...
- Keyword:
- Entry, Simulation Method, Medicare HMO, Welfare Analysis, and GHK Simulator
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Shiko Maruyama
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/25/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-17
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The patent system seeks to strike the ideal balance between competition and the rate of innovation – not to maximize innovation unconditionally. Clearly there must be limits on the manner and degree to which patents are used to diminish competition. A critical complication, however, is that this boundary is often...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Erik Nikolaas Hovenkamp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation comprises three essays on industrial organization. In Chapter 1 I study the productivity effects of corporate diversification, where productivity is understood as a measure of sales per input at the productive unit level, and diversified firms are defined as firms that operate in different industries. I develop and...
- Keyword:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Carlos German Bet
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Both chapters of this dissertation relate to the aggregate value of corporations in an economy. In particular, they relate to the ratio of the aggregate total market value of corporations over the replacement cost of their recorded capital. The first chapter introduces a model that can explain why this ratio...
- Keyword:
- Capital, Investment, and Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Andreas Kropf
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/28/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertations consists of three chapters. The first chapter is on the topic of environmental economics and studies the question of the effects of air pollution on students’ school absences, finding significant and positive effects for air pollution, and PM10 in particular, on school absences. The second chapter is on...
- Keyword:
- Environmental economics, Economics, and Labor economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Amirreza Khosroshahi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- We argue that a country’s level of wealth inequality can be viewed as a reflection of the quality of its housing rental market. Using the ECB’s Household Finance and Consump- tion Survey (HFCS), we document that the aggregate homeownership rate and various measures of wealth inequality are negatively correlated across...
- Keyword:
- OLG Model, Rental Markets, Housing investment, and Wealth Inequality
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sebastian Kohls
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The first chapter of this dissertation develops a two-stage inference method for structural parameters in the linear instrumental variables model. In the first stage, a new statistic is used to detect whether the correlation between the structural error and the reduced form error is small. In the second stage, a...
- Keyword:
- Inference and Econometrics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Sun Yi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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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:
- 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:
- The fact that informational asymmetries impose a significant barrier in path of smooth functioning of markets has been well known in Economics since the 1970s. Communication and information exchange allow to mitigate these barriers to a certain extent. The existing Economic literature allows to get a good grasp of static...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Starkov, Egor
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662831 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14665
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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:
- This dissertation contains three chapters. In Chapter 1, I study the effects of bank leverage ratio restrictions in a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy where lenders can anticipate bank runs. This framework allows the analysis of the tradeoffs associated with bank capital requirements - while unlimited leverage allows capital...
- Keyword:
- mortgage, credit supply, haircut, creditor rights, collateral, and repo
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Lewis, Brittany Almquist
- 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:15346 and etdadmin_upload_773034
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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:
- Regulations often impose quality restrictions on firms, which in turn can influence prices and welfare in a theoretically ambiguous manner. To study such quality restrictions, my coauthor and I examine the Wright Amendment by analyzing its full repeal in 2014 as a natural experiment, and the analysis is documented in...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Wang, Sibo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14634 and etdadmin_upload_662278
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines three empirical questions related to human capital in developing countries. Chapter 1 studies the educational and labor market impacts of the telesecundarias, Mexican secondary schools that use televisions to deliver instruction. In areas where there is an insufficient supply of qualified teachers, delivering instruction through technology may...
- Keyword:
- Development, Human Capital, and Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Navarro-Sola, Laia
- 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:15075 and etdadmin_upload_741177
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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 is a collection of three studies on topics in economic history and labor economics, in Italy and the United States. The chapters are ordered chronologically, based on the period of interest. In the first chapter, I investigate the causes and consequences of public spending on primary education in...
- Keyword:
- Postrelease Outcomes, School Spending, Minimum Wage, Labor Economics, Labor History, and Convict Labor
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Marchingiglio, Riccardo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_756459 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15197
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- Description:
- When demand is volatile and uncertain, prices often cannot adequately respond to demand shifts because these shifts are not known when prices are set. In this dissertation, I use the hotel industry--- an industry with a high degree of demand uncertainty and capacity constraints, which amplify the cost of setting...
- Keyword:
- Pricing, Information economics, Structural econometrics, Hotels, Demand uncertainty, and Industrial organization
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Leisten, Matthew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_744948 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15150
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- Description:
- Conventional methods in industrial organization assume that firms are strategically sophisticated and set prices as best responses to their competitive environment. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, I use a detailed dataset of retail and wholesale prices from the newly legalized cannabis industry in Washington state to show...
- Keyword:
- Optimal Pricing, Rule-of-thumb Pricing, Product Samples, New Markets, and Upstream Links
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Escudero, Manuel Matias
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14609 and etdadmin_upload_661657
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- Description:
- Recognizing the significance of social interactions in shaping human behavior and development, policies and programs often rely on peers and social relationships as mechanisms for inducing positive change. Yet, even in randomized control trials, social spillover can make an effective program appear ineffective, and measuring peer effects poses identification...
- Subject:
- Education policy and Economics
- Creator:
- Turner, Mary Clair Clair
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_780212 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15387
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- Description:
- This thesis investigates various aspects of productivity. In the first chapter I investigate the role of consumer demand in generating productivity dispersion. In particular, I study how differences in consumer preferences across the household income distribution generate dispersion in markups across the Indian manufacturing sector. I find that this consumer...
- Keyword:
- Productivity, Financial Technology, India, Consumer Demand, Information Frictions, and Misallocation
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Gupta, Apoorv
- 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:15092 and etdadmin_upload_742465
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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:
- 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 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:
- This dissertation explores two topics in macroeconomics related to aggregation assumptions and microfoundations. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on the representative agent aggregation assumption in the context of open economies, using both an empirical as well as a theoretical approach. Chapter 3 on the other hand, deals with the microfoundations...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Cugat, Gabriela Mariel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14610 and etdadmin_upload_661676
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- Description:
- Contest theory is an area of game theory that studies environments in which agents make sunk investments in order to get a prize. These investments could be money, effort, time, etc. Contest theory is used to study a wide range of applications, like political contests, research and development, advertisement campaigns,...
- Keyword:
- Contest Theory, All-pay Auctions, Auctions, and Game Theory
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Catepillan Tessi, Jorge Francisco
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14454 and etdadmin_upload_626486
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- Description:
- This thesis consists of three papers studying applied microeconomics and economic history. The chapters are broadly organized around two different topics: the political effects of media and the consequences of disruption to human capital. In the first chapter, joint with Susan Ou, we study the role of media in the...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Xiong, Heyu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662403 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14638
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- Description:
- In this dissertation I examine issues related to uncertainty and robustness in game theory. In Chapter 1 a strategic setting is analyzed where players face Knightian uncertainty about the strategic choices of their opponents. That is, in contrast to the usual Bayesian framework and in line with experimental evidence, players...
- Subject:
- Economics and Economic theory
- Creator:
- Ziegler, Gabriel
- 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:15108 and etdadmin_upload_743149
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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 dissertation is composed by three chapters. Chapter one is about productivity hysterisis in the U.S. after the Great Recession. The United States has been experiencing a slowdown in productivity growth for more than a decade. I exploit geographic variation across U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) to investigate the link...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Carreno-Garcia, Jose
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_740053 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15069
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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:
- Economic and political processes are heavily intertwined. Political processes put constraints on economic activity while economic development influences the way the political system operates. This interconnection is especially tight in developing countries and transition economies with less secure property rights, less stable political institutions, and more rapid economic changes. In...
- Keyword:
- Conflict, Political Parties, Social Media, Political Economy, and Development Economics
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Makarin, Alexey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14652 and etdadmin_upload_662665
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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 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 focuses on two topics: macroeconomic implications of consumer inertia, and sovereign debt. In Chapter 1, I explore the role of consumer inertia---persistence in households' consumption choices---as a driver of the rise in corporate profits and decline in the share of young firms in the US economy during the...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Bornstein, Gideon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_647981 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14553
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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:
- In this dissertation I analyze how population aging and political considerations can affect the conduct of fiscal policy and the management of sovereign debt. In Chapter 1 I focus on the impact of an aging population. In Chapter 2 I consider the effects of political uncertainty. How an aging population...
- Keyword:
- Population aging, Sovereign debt, Political uncertainty, and Fiscal policy
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Magistretti, Giacomo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_743431 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15113
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- Description:
- In Chapter 1 I characterize sharp bounds on treatment effects under data combination with instrumental variables. Data combination in this paper refers to having multiple samples drawn from the same population in which observations cannot be linked across samples. I allow for subsets of the outcome, treatment, instrument and covariates...
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Lee, Ryan Alan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_743663 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15115
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains three empirical studies in economic history and labor economics. The first chapter discusses two sources of historical data on work stoppages in the United States: the Third Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor (1888) and the Tenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor (1896). It...
- Subject:
- Economic history and Economics
- Creator:
- Bittarello, Luca
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14721 and etdadmin_upload_669611
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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 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:
- In Chapter 1, I investigate whether physical capital anchors the spatial distribution of economic activity and how capital destruction affects local economic activity in the short and the long term. I investigate these questions by examining the 1975 frost that damaged coffee trees in the Brazilian state of Paraná. I...
- Keyword:
- Persistence, Agglomeration economies, Economic geography, Economic development, and Brazil
- Subject:
- Geography and Economics
- Creator:
- Barsanetti, Bruno
- 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:15052 and etdadmin_upload_734725
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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 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:
- This dissertation studies three aspects of health insurance market regulation and design. Chapter 1 (which is joint work with Steve Cicala and Ethan Leiber) studies a regulatory mechanism used to constrain insurer market power. The mechanism targets health insurers' Medical Loss Ratio, which is the share of premiums spent on...
- Keyword:
- Healthcare, Industrial organization, Health insurance, Market design, and Moral hazard
- Subject:
- Economics
- Creator:
- Marone, Victoria
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_763445 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15242
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses questions in the fields of household finance and corporate finance. In Chapter 1, I use a quasi-experiment in Norway to examine how households respond to capital taxation. The introduction of a new wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes,...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15210