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Three Essays in Monetary Economics and Banking
(2018)
Banks play a major role in all the economic and financial activities in modern society. In this dissertation, I explore three separate, yet closely hinged topics in banking. In the first chapter, I investigate how banks ...
Technology Adoption and Human Capital Integration
(2018)
In this dissertation, I examine how using an employment contract to integrate human capital affects the technology adoption process, including both the firm’s decision to adopt a new technology and the subsequent implementation ...
Three Essays in Public Finance in Developing Countries
(2018)
The three chapters presented in this dissertation focus on fiscal issues affecting developing countries. Low tax revenue collection, weak enforcement capabilities, high levels of tax evasion, inefficient tax system design, ...
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2018)
This dissertation evaluates two public policies using methodologies from applied microeconomics. The first chapter examines an immigration policy in the U.S and its impacts on local labor markets and by industry. The second ...
Three Essays on Household Consumption, Labor Supply, and Self-Insurance
(2018)
This dissertation examines the insurance mechanism within the family and also in the extended family across different generations. The three essays contribute to the understanding of how family members respond to adverse ...
Essays on Property Rights and Financing
(2018)
This dissertation comprises of two essays on property rights and financing. The two essays have tight relationship under the broad theme of intellectual property rights of firms. The first essay focuses on property rights ...
Three Essays on the Macroeconomic Consequences of Prices
(2018)
To understand the workings of the macroeconomy, it is not enough to simply focus on the movements of the aggregate variables of the economy. It is necessary to also understand the behavior of its various components and ...
Exploring Work Perceptions in High Poverty Schools: Middle School Teachers' Thriving, Vitality, and Learning at Work
(2018)
The teaching profession has both retention and recruitment problems. High teacher turnover, paired with teacher shortages, has and will prove costly for all schools, particularly those in high poverty areas. Research in ...
Essays on Places and Economic Inequality
(2018)
This dissertation uses changes across space to understand economic inequality. Chapter one examines people’s ties to places. If people are tied to places by family and experiences, then welfare will be less equal across ...
Efficient Real-time Policies for Revenue Management Problems
(2018)
This dissertation studies the development of provably near-optimal real-time prescriptive analytics solutions that are easily implementable in a dynamic business environment. We consider several stochastic control problems ...