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Decision Making with Uncertainty: Applications to Queueing Theory and Market Research.
(2009)
In the first section, a firm with two servers must decide how to dynamically route arriving customers and allocate servers to two separate queues. The servers may work together or separately, and we provide insights into ...
An Examination of the Relationships Between Organizational Factors and Information Technology Satisfaction and Use: A Study of Undergraduate Faculty.
(2010)
This study used quantitative analyses to determine whether organizational factors affected information technology satisfaction and use. The participants in this study were limited to undergraduate faculty who taught at ...
Essays in Optimization of Commodity Procurement, Processing and Trade Operations.
(2011)
Managing commodity price uncertainty is an integral part of many firms' business process. Firms adopt a variety of operational strategies to manage this uncertainty, subject to operational constraints such as finite ...
Three Essays in Corporate Finance.
(2011)
The three essays in this dissertation examine issues related to corporate governance, investment, and financing. In the first essay, I analyze the consequences of CEO succession on board composition. I show that existing ...
Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school ...
Essays on Industrial Organization: Regulatory Uncertainty and Dynamic Decision-Making by Firms.
(2010)
This dissertation is composed of three papers concerned with how firms respond to uncertainty and dynamic interactions. These are areas that have long been important research topics among industrial economists. The ...
Essays On Joint Optimization Of Pricing And Capacity Decisions With Customer Behavior Modelling.
(2010)
My dissertation is about joint optimization of firms' operations and marketing decisions with explicit modelling of customer behavior. It includes three essays:
The first essay, ``Advance Selling -- The Effect of Capacity ...
Three Papers on Strategic Decision Making in Digitally Mediated Markets.
(2009)
Technological developments have been reshaping existing markets and giving rise to new ones. In my dissertation, I address several questions that emerged as a result of these changes. In the first two chapters, I study ...
Durables in Open Economy Macroeconomics.
(2007)
This dissertation studies the roles that durable goods play in open economy macroeconomics. The three essays examine if and how durable goods improve the ability to understand business cycle features.
The first essay shows ...
Modeling International Asset Markets
(2008)
The three papers that comprise my dissertation study international asset markets. The first paper “What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?” shows that, despite their widespread use, oil futures prices are ...