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Essays in Financial Economics
(2023)
This dissertation comprises three essays in financial economics. The first essay uses a general equilibrium model to explain the cash flow risk and the dynamics of the equity term structure. I propose a novel explanation ...
The Road From Serfdom: Essays in Economic Development and Property Rights
(2022)
This dissertation studies what were the causes of the disappearance of the feudal economic system, and how the emerging modern property right institutions affected economic development.
Chapter 1 summarizes the scope and ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Charity
(2023)
This dissertation studies how charities' receipts and expenses respond to developments in the communities they serve. Chapter I studies the relationship between political contributions and charities' private donations and ...
Convention-Affirming Equilibrium
(2023)
I introduce the concept of convention-affirming equilibrium (CAE) and study its implications in a number of settings. A convention-affirming equilibrium represents a stationary outcome in a population of agents who do not ...
Toward Cooperative Altruism: Essays on the Foundations of Altruistic Economics
(2022)
Cooperative altruism is the motivation or action of working with others to improve the welfare of another sentient being. This dissertation is based on the exploration of three foundations of cooperative altruism: riskless ...
Essays in International Economics
(2021)
This dissertation studies three aspects of international economics and their effects on the internal economy.
The first chapter studies the effects of road and port infrastructure on international market access of different ...
Essays on Housing Economics and Family Dynamics
(2023)
This dissertation focuses on two of the biggest kinds of long-term decisions in one's life, on housing and on marriage. In all three chapters I focus on previously unexplored aggregate implications of simple differences ...
The Influence of Price Changes on Enrollment: Research Designs to Examine Price Responsiveness in Graduate and Professional Schools
(2023)
A number of studies have examined the impact of changes in price on students’ enrollment decisions at the undergraduate level, but little is known about the price responsiveness of graduate and professional students. This ...
Essays in Labor Market Employing Network Theory and Decomposition Methods
(2022)
This dissertation contributes to the literature in two main fronts: (i) it combines economic theory and network theory to develop a new methodology for identifying latent worker and job heterogeneity from the network of ...
Essays on International Worker Mobility
(2021)
In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of international labor migration in different parts of the world.
In the first chapter, I examine how migrants in the United Kingdom adjust their labor supply in response ...