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Provision, Interpretation and Effects of Feedback in Reputation Systems.
(2008)
This dissertation addresses three questions that arise out of the voluntary and subjective provision of feedback and its subjective interpretation. The first study is an experimental investigation of a mechanism designed ...
Three Essays in Health Insurance Coverage.
(2010)
Obtaining health insurance through an employer pools risk, but may lead to moral hazard, where employees with more coverage seek care valued below cost, and adverse selection, where the unhealthy choose more generous plans, ...
Three Essays on Resources in Education.
(2008)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines how a large increase to state aid to schools in New Jersey affects the expenditures of the affected school districts. The 30 school districts affected by the Abbott policy ...
Essays in Education and Labor Economics.
(2007)
The first chapter of the dissertation investigates how
poor households in developing countries respond to adverse income
developments. I use nationally representative longitudinal data to
investigate behavioral responses ...
Factors Affecting Consumers' Responses to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.
(2008)
Pharmaceutical companies utilize Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) advertising to generate consumer discussions with physicians and increase prescriptions. The dissertation seeks to answer a question not fully addressed in the ...
On the Importance of Commodity and Energy Price Shocks for the Macroeconomy.
(2007)
Although higher commodity prices are commonly thought to presage higher rates of inflation, the existing literature suggests that the predictive power of commodity prices for inflation has waned since the 1980s. In the ...
Accounting Complexity and Misreporting: Manipulation or Mistake?
(2008)
I explore the effect of accounting complexity on misreporting using a setting of revenue restatements. I measure revenue recognition complexity using a factor score based on the number of words and revenue recognition ...
The Creation and Performance of Classification Schemes: Rating Systems in United States Broker-Dealers 1993-2000.
(2008)
In the past few years, organizational researchers have found a renewed interest in categorization and its consequences. Most research focuses on the consequences of categorization for the categorized objects, arguing that ...
Tax Burden and Compensation Practices in the Financial Service Industry.
(2007)
Although USA is the largest economic powerhouse in the world, the future of US economy may depend on international competitiveness of US firms. Competitiveness of American firms will be influenced by many different factors, ...
Essays on Corporate Ownership.
(2009)
Corporate ownership is one of the most important determinants of modern corporate behavior, affecting firm valuation and productivity. This thesis examines how share ownership influences, or is influenced by, important ...