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Three Essays in Labor and Public Economics.
(2009)
This study comprises three essays exploring new questions in regard to the role of health insurance in retirement decisions and the financial value of avoiding perceived crime. In ``Love, Toil, and Health Insurance: Why ...
Patent Policy, R&D and Economic Growth.
(2008)
The literature on R&D-driven economic growth suggests that technological innovations result from entrepreneurial activities such as R&D investments. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, I develop tractable ...
Essays on Firm Ownership, Performance and Value.
(2009)
This dissertation studies the relationship between firm ownership and firm performance
as measured by firm productivity and profitability. Given the vast dispersion in owner and
firm characteristics, changes in ownership ...
A Mechanism Design Approach to Decentralized Resource Allocation in Wireless and Large-Scale Networks: Realization and Implementation.
(2009)
In this thesis we present a mechanism design approach to decentralized resource
allocation in wireless and large-scale networks. For wireless networks we study the
problem of power allocation where each user's transmissions ...
Three Essays on Offshore Outsourcing and Labor Markets.
(2009)
The practice of international trade has evolved from the purchase of final goods of foreign origin to production sharing, now commonly referred to as offshore outsourcing. Due to the nature of direct replacement of domestic ...
Agents' Mental Models.
(2008)
Three essays investigating the construction and implications of economic agents' internal representations of problems they face.
In the second chapter, "Optimal Auctions under Ambiguity," we investigate the construction ...
Two Views of Agency in Patient Advocates' Problem-Handling Work: Storytelling and Rule Use.
(2008)
Patient advocates are hospital employees who handle the non-medical problems and complaints that patients and their families experience while receiving care in hospitals. Using qualitative data from interviews and shadowing ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...
Essays on Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.
(2008)
The estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models is the subject of a rapidly growing literature. This dissertation contributes to the existing body of work by focusing on issues related to parameter ...
Essays on the Economic Analysis of Discrimination, Law Enforcement, and Smoking.
(2009)
This dissertation examines issues related to the efficiency and effectiveness of government policies to provide public goods. In the first essay, I develop an empirical test for whether police officers discriminate on ...