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Labor Market Efficiency and Team Transactions in Major League Baseball
(2022)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate papers related to the player labor market and team decision making process in Major League Baseball (MLB).
The first paper focuses on the MLB labor market after the ...
Data-Driven Optimization in Revenue Management: Pricing, Assortment Planning, and Demand Learning
(2020)
This dissertation studies several problems in revenue management involving dynamic pricing, assortment selection, and their joint optimization, through demand learning. The setting in these problems is that customers’ ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...
The Long-Term Effects of Housing and Criminal Justice Policy: Evidence and Methods
(2021)
This dissertation combines research from multiple areas of applied economics and is mostly focused on estimating the long-term impacts of housing and criminal justice policy. In addition, this dissertation covers an important ...
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation
(2022)
Business research and practice have emphasized the value of intrinsic motivation for over 50 years. In my dissertation, I argue that this valuation can have unintended negative consequences for employees. Specifically, I ...
Essays in Energy Markets
(2017)
In this thesis, I empirically examine how strategic decisions of firms change under events such as input cost shocks and policy changes, in electricity markets. In the first chapter, I show that when the industry-wide cost ...
Three Essays in Decision Theory
(2019)
This dissertation contributes to a few topics in decision theory including non-Bayesian updating, reference dependent choice, and limited attention. In the first chapter, I propose and axiomatically characterize a novel ...
Essays in Public Finance and Taxation
(2021)
This dissertation uses administrative tax data to study behavioral responses to taxation and tax enforcement. Chapter I focuses on the two tax penalties associated with Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Chapter II ...
Networked Miscommunication: The Relationship Between Communication Networks, Misunderstandings, and Organizational Performance
(2020)
In this dissertation, I introduce and define the concept of networked miscommunication – unintentional, aggregated effects of communication practices throughout an organization – and demonstrate its deleterious impacts on ...
What is a Labor Market? Classifying Workers and Jobs Using Network Theory
(2022)
This dissertation combines economic theory and network theory to develop a new methodology for identifying latent worker and job heterogeneity from the network of worker-job matches in linked employer-employee data sets. ...