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  • Do Stock Mergers Create Value for Acquires?

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    This dissertation studies whether stock mergers creates value for acquirers. The first chapter of this dissertation conducts a comprehensive review of the existing merger literature relevant to this topic. It includes existing merger theories, empirical studies on whether mergers are value destroying or value creating, and methodological issues on empirical...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Qi Lu
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/17/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/17/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-10-02
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Optimal Contracting

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    The first chapter of this dissertation studies a continuous-time agency model where the agent controls the drift of the geometric Brownian motion firm size. The changing firm size generates partial incentives, analogous to awarding the agent equity shares according to her continuation payoff. When the agent is as patient as...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Zhiguo He
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    08/31/2018
    Date Modified:
    08/31/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-04-23
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Entry and Exit in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

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    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

  • Creativity, Unawareness, and Cooperation in Game Theory

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    Description:
    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

  • Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics

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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

  • Essays on Unemployment, Education and Fertility

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    Description:
    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

  • Essays for equilibrium implementation in monetary models and international trade

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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

  • Essays in Labor Economics

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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

  • Market Power in Markets for Power

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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

  • Essays on the Hospital Industry

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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
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation