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Empirical Game-Theoretic Methods for Strategy Design and Analysis in Complex Games.
(2008)
Complex multi-agent systems often are not amenable to standard game-theoretic analysis. I study methods for strategic reasoning that scale to more complex interactions, drawing on computational and empirical techniques. ...
Essays in Agency, Incentives and Contracting.
(2008)
This dissertation examines issues in agency, incentives and contracting. The first two essays examine the relation between managerial power and supplier value while the third essay examines the behavior of investors in ...
How Immigrants and Students Respond to Public Policies: Evidence from Welfare Reform, the Minimum Wage and Stafford Loans.
(2008)
The first two essays of this dissertation use policy experiments to show that low-skilled newly arriving immigrants help keep the economy in geographic equilibrium by differentially selecting destinations that provide ...
Three Essays in Insider Trading.
(2008)
This dissertation investigates insider trading around significant corporate information events.
Chapter 1 tests the prediction of standard option pricing models that there is no relation between past stock returns and ...
Three Essays on Professional Advising.
(2008)
This dissertation considers three topics in professional advising and forecasting. Chapter 1 examines a principal's optimal contracting with experts. In an environment where experts have heterogeneous private signal ...
Efficient Regularized Solution Path Algorithms with Applications in Machine Learning and Data Mining.
(2008)
The topic of this dissertation is based on regularization methods and efficient solution path algorithms for machine learning and data mining.
The first essay proposes the doubly regularized support vector machine (DrSVM) ...
Accounting Fraud and Institutional Investors.
(2008)
This dissertation examines institutional investors' trading behavior in a sample of
322 firms alleged in Accounting, Auditing, and Enforcement Releases to have
manipulated their accounting earnings (hereafter fraud firms). ...
Three Essays on Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentives, and Government Expenditures.
(2008)
The first essay proposes potential benefits from monitoring as important determinants of institutional block holding, where the measures for monitoring benefits are identified from the information asymmetry problem. Using ...
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 ...
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 ...