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Three Essays In Open Economy Macroeconomics and Economic Development.
(2007)
This dissertation focuses on issues related to economic globalization and its implications for the domestic economy. The first two chapters pertain to international financial integration, while the last chapter studies the ...
Simultaneously Managing Procurement Costs and Risks.
(2009)
The average US manufacturer spends 40-60% of its revenue to procure goods and services. Transcending its more tactical beginnings in vertically integrated firms, today the procurement function serves as a vital gatekeeper ...
Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United States.
(2008)
This dissertation focuses on the labor market experiences of immigrants in the United States. Using cross-state variation in the provision of Medicaid for immigrants arriving after the 1996 welfare reform, the second ...
Quantifying the Impact of Environmental Policy on Engineering Design Decisions.
(2011)
In order to realize environmental goals, policymakers are increasingly creating measures to encourage the redesign of products to improve environmental performance. Developing an approach to evaluate the influence of these ...
Traditional Marketing, Online Communication and Market Outcomes Essay 1: Marketing Activity, Blogging and Sales Essay 2: Consumers' Social Learning about Videogame Consoles through Multi-Website Browsing Essay 3: Co-Evolution of Network Growth and Group F
(2011)
The scope of my dissertation is to understand how consumers’ online communication affects consumers’ behavior and market outcomes. The recent growth of consumer generated media (CGM), also known as “new” media, has provided ...
Creativity and Constraint: Exploring the Role of Constraint in the Creative Processes of New Product and Technology Development Teams.
(2011)
Research on creativity in organizations has revealed a variety of important paradoxes; paradoxes that some have argued are fundamental to the nature of creativity itself. One such paradox is the tension between freedom and ...
Essays on Mechanism Design
(2011)
Mechanism design uses game theory to analyze how to construct mechanisms that give agents incentives to produce an outcome as optimal as possible for the mechanism designer. My dissertation is on robust mechanism design, ...
More than Numbers: R&D-related Disclosure and Firm Performance.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the relation between reported financial performance and qualitative disclosure in the research and development (R&D) disclosure setting. While the influence of performance on firms’ disclosure ...
The Impact of Cross-Border Flows on Markets for Labor, Higher Education, and Goods and Services.
(2010)
The essays of this dissertation examine the determinants of cross-border flows, in the form of immigrants and foreign aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition ...
Small World, Big Ideas, and Smart Companies - A Qualitative Study of Academic Spin-off Companies and Knowledge Creation.
(2010)
This dissertation is about spin-off companies that stem from academic research activities from within universities. The focus is on the ways in which these companies create knowledge, the ways in which knowledge flows ...