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Individual and Institutional Investor Behavior.
(2008)
The first chapter analyzes both the disposition effect and trading performance at the individual level to determine whether and how investors learn from their trading experience. The study finds that performance improves ...
Essays on Patterns of International Trade.
(2008)
This dissertation studies the roles of comparative advantage, monopolistic competition, and firm-level heterogeneity in international trade.
The first essay investigates cross-country and cross-industry variation in the ...
Dimensions of Music: The Effect of Music/Brand Congruity on Advertising and Brand Evaluations.
(2008)
This research investigates the role of background music in the process of attitude formation. Specifically, this paper examines how the fit between a piece of music and a brand in a product evaluation setting may affect ...
Rapid Economic Growth at the Cost of Environment Degradation? Panel Data Evidience from BRIC Economies
(2008-02-01)
The paper investigates whether the decline in environmental quality in BRIC economies is due to high energy consumption level which is a resultant of rapid economic growth. We answer this using environmental, macroeconomic ...
The Role and Extent of Economic Rent in Distribution Contracts.
(2008)
This dissertation is composed of five chapters that investigate the extent and role of economic rent in distribution contracts between manufacturers and dealers.
Manufacturers often devise contractual mechanisms that ...
Developing Relational Capital in Team-Based New Ventures.
(2008)
This dissertation develops and tests a theory of how entrepreneurial teams develop relational capital – or relationships characterized by trust, identification, and obligations – and the impact of this relational capital ...
Essays in Labor and Development Economics.
(2008)
Chapter 1: "Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households in the Nineties."
We study the distribution of food aid in Ethiopia using data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey. ...
Three Essays in International Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics.
(2008)
This dissertation consists of three essays studying various issues
in international macroeconomics and macroeconomics.
The first essay investigates the dynamics of the relative price of
nontradable to tradable goods at ...
Essays on Race and the Persistence of Economic Inequality.
(2008)
Although over 140 years have passed since slaves were emancipated in the United States, African-Americans continue to lag behind the general population in terms of earnings and wealth. Both Reconstruction era policy makers ...
Essays on Strategic Voting.
(2008)
This dissertation consists of three related chapters.
The first chapter, which is written jointly with Lones Smith presents a dynamic model of deliberation by two privately informed individuals. Even by assuming the ...