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Essays on the Role of Customer Expectation in Service Markets.
(2016)
Customer expectations have been considered as customers' pre-purchase beliefs or evaluative beliefs about a product or service. When making a choice, customers first construct their expectations of what is to come whenever ...
Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
Essays on Financial Contracting and Asymmetric Information.
(2014)
This dissertation comprises three essays on financial contracting and intermediation under information asymmetry. They examine both some of the asymmetric information problems that contracts can mitigate as well as some ...
Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets.
(2015)
This dissertation uses microeconomic theory to examine learning and beliefs in markets that are not centralized, in order to refine our knowledge of how information asymmetries affect market outcomes. I approach problems ...
First mover or higher quality? Optimal product strategy in markets with positive feedbacks
(Simon and SchusterWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-03)
Conventional wisdom holds that in markets with positive feedbacks being first to market can matter more than product quality. In this paper, we test that intuition within a generalized Pólya urn model. We find that if we ...
Strategic Pricing in Service Industries.
(2015)
This dissertation studies several strategic-level pricing decisions of firms that are motivated by recent changes of pricing policies in several service industries. It consists of three essays, each analyzing a different ...
Liquidation In Limit Order Books With Controlled Intensity
(Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications. Boston, MA: BirkhäuserWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-10)
Mental representation and the discovery of new strategies
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016-10)
Bringing Home the Crisis: How US Evening News Framed the 2011 Japan Nuclear Crisis
(RoutledgeWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-09)