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Analysis of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments
(2018)
This dissertation studies identification, estimation, inference and experimental design for analyzing causal spillover effects in randomized experiments. Chapter II provides a nonparametric framework based on potential ...
Essays on the U.S. Treasury Debt Market and Asset-Pricing
(2018)
The three essays in this dissertation examine questions in the U.S. Treasury bond market and an asset-pricing anomaly in the stock market. They are unified by the theme relating quantities of assets with asset prices. These ...
Three Essays on Public Finance and Development
(2018)
This dissertation examines the determinants and consequences of tax and
expenditure policy, with an emphasis on the link between public finance and
development.
Chapter 1 analyzes local government responses to permanent ...
Robust Systems of Cooperation
(2018)
This dissertation examines the robustness of systems of cooperation—the ability to maintain levels of cooperation in the presence of a potentially disruptive force. I examine rankings as a potentially disruptive force that ...
Entrepreneurial Operations Management
(2018)
In the presence of tight capital, time and talent constraints, many traditional operational challenges are reinforced (and sometimes redefined) in the entrepreneurial setting. This dissertation addresses some of these ...
Essays on Information Disclosure, Healthcare Marketing & Consumption
(2018)
Recent regulatory changes have introduced more transparency to healthcare practice and marketing. The intention of these regulatory changes is to help consumers make more informed decisions, to reduce healthcare costs, and ...
Our Fates Entwined: A Social and Psychological Perspective of Control in Corporate Governance
(2018)
In this dissertation I examine how the exercise of board control at one firm can influence governance at other firms by affecting the social cognitions of other corporate leaders about their own board. Existing corporate ...
An Investor Behavior and Related Asset Pricing Distortions
(2018)
I document a stylized fact about stock buying behavior of investors. I empirically show that investors tend to buy riskier stocks following a realized loss. The risk measure that the investors seem to pay attention to is ...
Motivating Contributions to Public Information Goods
(2018)
This dissertation investigates how to motivate contributions to public information goods, characterized by non-rivalry by nature and non-excludability by choice. With the running example of Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia ...
The Political Economy of Inefficient Trade Policy
(2018)
While political scientists have often noted that trade protection is an inefficient way of redistributing income between parties, given that it destroys value relative to other redistributive mechanisms (such as domestic ...