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Convergence in Global Manufacturing Compensation Costs: An International Trade Perspective/
(2009)
The potential for convergence in compensation costs across countries and over time is an important issue in the economic literature. Central theories of macroeconomics and international trade point toward convergence in ...
The Impact of Legal Challenges to Affirmative Action on Educational Choice.
(2007)
The first chapter of the dissertation explores the impact of the United State's Supreme
Court's 2003 decisions in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger on applications
and admissions at an elite public university. ...
Essays on International Fragmentation and Intermediate Goods Trade.
(2009)
Chapter 1 addresses the choice of production location for a Northern firm between a developed country (the North) and a developing country (the South), where spillover of knowledge occurs from the Northern firm producing ...
Three Essays in Public Finance and Labor Economics.
(2007)
The first paper of this dissertation utilizes unique data on teachers' union election certifications in Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota to analyze the effect of teachers' unions on education production. I find teachers' unions ...
Three Essays on Firm Behavior and Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslav Republics.
(2009)
This dissertation shows how the transformation of social ownership to private ownership affected the behavior of firms and entrepreneurship in selected former Yugoslav countries. The goal was to determine whether firms’ ...
Incentives to Inflate Reported Cash from Operations Using Classification and Timing. Timing.
(2009)
This paper examines when firms manage reported cash from operations in the statement of cash flows (CFO) and the mechanisms through which CFO can be managed. CFO management as investigated in this paper is distinct from ...
Group Polarization on Corporate Boards: Theory and Evidence on Board Decisions about Acquisition Premiums, Executive Compensation, and Diversification.
(2009)
This dissertation examines how a fundamental group decision-making bias referred to as group polarization may influence boards’ major strategic decisions (i.e. acquisition premiums, executive compensation, and diversification) ...
Essays on Population Learning Dynamics and Boundedly Rational Behavior
(2009)
This dissertation contains four essays about evolutionary learning dynamics and the quantal response model of bounded rationality in game theory.
The first essay examines the use of single-agent and representative-agent ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory.
(2009)
This dissertation consists of three essays studying various issues in applied microeconomic theory.
The first essay proposes a model of two-party elections in which voters' preferences over candidates is affected by their ...
Updating as Part of Everyday Work: An Interactional Perspective.
(2009)
Despite the importance of updating, which I define as a process in which actors revisit and potentially revise their current understanding of and response to an evolving situation, we know relatively little about what ...