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Three Essays in Microeconometrics
(2014)
This dissertation explores the theoretical finite sample and asymptotic properties of several econometric estimators. Two central themes are robustness and pragmatism. This dissertation develops theory that is focused on ...
Essays on Labor Economics and Advertising Auctions.
(2014)
This dissertation contains three essays. The first is about an experiment with an advertising auction to determine its effects on a company and its main competitor. The second is about the role of preferences and skill ...
Scaling Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis.
(2014)
To analyze the incentive structure of strategic multi-agent interactions, such scenarios are often cast as games, where players optimize their payoffs by selecting a strategy in anticipation of the strategic decisions of ...
Essays on Newspaper Economics.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of two chapters that focus on estimating the economic impact of two major pricing changes witnessed recently in the U.S. newspaper industry. The first chapter investigates the optimality of the ...
Essays on Multinational Production and International Trade.
(2014)
This dissertation studies the determinants and the consequences of multinational production.
The first chapter assembles a unique industry-level dataset of foreign affiliate sales to document a new empirical regularity: ...
Orthogonal surface functionalization through bioactive vapor‐based polymer coatings
(Academic PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-07-15)
Reactive chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polymerization provides a substrate‐independent platform for effective functionalization of virtually any solid substrates, flat, or curved, even with complex geometries. This article ...
Labor Search, Inequality, and Public Policy.
(2014)
This dissertation develops and examines a model labor market. Which workers search for new jobs both while unemployed and while employed. Firms may choose to employ workers under a non-negotiable (wage posting) or ...
Transformation Potential of Cloud Computing - Understanding Strategic Value Creation from Customer and Vendor Perspectives.
(2014)
While Cloud Computing is evolving as a major information technology phenomenon by redefining how IT capabilities are generated and consumed, the business value of this emerging model of IT capabilities delivery is anecdotal. ...