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  • Essays on Financial Intermediation

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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

  • Essays on finance and development

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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

  • Essays on Information and Asset Prices

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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

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    Description:
    Technological innovation is a key determinant of economic growth, and my dissertation is to understand the links between the investment of technological innovation and financial markets, with a focus on how the macroeconomic environment interacts with and is influenced by the financial constraints facing firms. Chapter one investigates the links...
    Keyword:
    Macroeconomic, Innovation, Debt, Technology, Economic Growth, and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Huang, Qiushi
    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:15047 and etdadmin_upload_732371

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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    Description:
    Chapter 1 proposes a parsimonious two-country, two-good, and complete-market model featuring heterogeneous beliefs to address the Backus-Smith, volatility, and forward premium puzzles in international finance. The presence of the time-varying difference in beliefs has direct and indirect effects on equilibrium exchange rates. The direct effect appears as a wedge in...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    XIa, Shixiang
    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:15074 and etdadmin_upload_741127

  • Essays on Financial Intermediation

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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

  • Essays in Household and Corporate Finance

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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

  • Financial Crises and Economic Growth: U.S. Cities, Counties, and School Districts During the Great Depression

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    Description:
    This dissertation is the culmination of a four-year project on local governments and local economic activity during the Great Depression in the United States (1929 - 1937). Chapter 1 investigates how U.S. municipal governments coped during the Depression and studies whether debt-induced financial constraints affected local public good provision. Local...
    Keyword:
    financial distress, Great Depression, local public good provision, and municipal bonds
    Subject:
    Economic history and Finance
    Creator:
    Janas, Pawel
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_898235 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16011

  • Capital Inflows, Capital Controls and Risk Misallocation

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    Description:
    Foreign currency debt has led to many crises in emerging markets. In the past decade, firms in emerging economies have drastically increased their foreign currency borrowing, making them significantly exposed to depreciation shocks. To reduce their exposure to external shocks, central banks have increased their use of regulation, such as...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Keller, Lorena
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    04/29/2020
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14972 and etdadmin_upload_715245

  • Essays in Investment Theory

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    Description:
    his dissertation addresses questions of investment theories in financial economics. Chapter 1 studies investment problem with ambiguity and agency friction in a optimal contracting framework, where investors (principal) have ambiguous beliefs about the cash flows and the managers (agent) can pursue unobservable risk-taking strategies that earn cash flow but may...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Liu, Yufeng
    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:15560 and etdadmin_upload_818233

  • Essays in Technology, Finance, and Labor

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    Description:
    This dissertation is a wide-range study of the relationships between the three central elements of the production function: technology, capital and its financing, and labor. Chapter 1 analyzes the relationship between labor and recent wave of automation and digitization technologies, showing that while they typically substitute for workers, in several...
    Keyword:
    flexibility, labor supply, household debt, capital structure, automation and digitization, and labor scarcity
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Labor economics
    Creator:
    Zator, Michal
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    01/21/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_737737 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15059

  • Three Essays on Credit Markets

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies the real effects of firms’ financing decisions as well as the economics consequences of bias in fair value prices of corporate bonds. The first chapter examines the impact of compliance with changes in mandated financial reporting on corporate financing and investment decisions. I employ the recent implementation...
    Subject:
    Accounting and Finance
    Creator:
    Kim, Doyeon
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_901879 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16057

  • Essays in Trade and Finance

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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

  • Essays on Political Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...
    Keyword:
    Financial Crises, Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Voting
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Political science
    Creator:
    van Straelen, Hendrik Philip
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651

  • Ambiguity, Investor Disagreement, and Expected Stock Returns

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    Description:
    I set up a disagreement model where traders not only have different interpretations of a public signal that conveys information of a stock, but are also uncertain about the information quality of others' interpretations. The model along with traders being ambiguity-averse predicts a positive relation between investor disagreement (ID) and...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Hsiao, Lawrence
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_902772 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16075

  • Essays in Real Estate Finance

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

  • Essays in Mortgage Finance

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    Description:
    Mortgage brokers originate a large share of residential real estate lending. Exploiting state-level regulatory changes to local entry costs I am able to study the effect on credit quality and access. Using data from a major mortgage lender in the run up to the financial crisis I study how the...
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Stephenson, Harvey Hugh
    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:14642 and etdadmin_upload_662464

  • Essays in Household Finance

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    Description:
    In this dissertation I study the effects of mortgage leverage policies. These policies have become widely used in recent years, both as a macroprudential tool and to protect consumers, yet their effects are still not well understood. In Chapter 1, I show that mortgage leverage rules implemented under the Dodd-Frank...
    Keyword:
    mortgages, entrepreneurship, financial regulation, and house prices
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Johnson, Stephanie Georgina
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662744 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14658

  • Essays on Innovation

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    Description:
    This dissertation explores two factors that affect innovation. The first factor studied is extrinsic, namely, the legal environment. The second factor is a factor of input into innovation - culture of the inventors. The first chapter studies the impact of a weakened patent environment on research investments. Departing from the...
    Keyword:
    Research and Development, Patent, Innovation, and Culture
    Subject:
    Intellectual property and Finance
    Creator:
    Srinivasan, Sridhar
    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:14622 and etdadmin_upload_662046

  • Essays in Financial Economics

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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