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Essays on International Economics and Economic Growth
(2022)
The first chapter, co-authored with Younghun Shim, studies how the adoption of foreign technology and local spillovers from such adoption contributed to late industrialization in a developing country during the postwar ...
Three Essays in Macro Finance
(2019)
This dissertation consists of three connected chapters on macro finance.
The first chapter studies the aggregate relevance of financial market fluctuations in driving firms' investment fluctuations. Different with the ...
Our Fates Entwined: A Social and Psychological Perspective of Control in Corporate Governance
(2018)
In this dissertation I examine how the exercise of board control at one firm can influence governance at other firms by affecting the social cognitions of other corporate leaders about their own board. Existing corporate ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Policy and the Prices of Financial Assets
(2022)
My dissertation investigates what information embedded in financial prices reveals about questions relevant for macroeconomic policy. The first two chapters examine implicit government guarantees in the U.S. life insurance ...
An Investor Behavior and Related Asset Pricing Distortions
(2018)
I document a stylized fact about stock buying behavior of investors. I empirically show that investors tend to buy riskier stocks following a realized loss. The risk measure that the investors seem to pay attention to is ...
Essays in Industrial Organization
(2020)
My research analyzes the impact that new technology can have on consumers' welfare and the strategic responses from firms. My dissertation focuses on the television industry, which has experienced dramatic changes within ...
Motivating Contributions to Public Information Goods
(2018)
This dissertation investigates how to motivate contributions to public information goods, characterized by non-rivalry by nature and non-excludability by choice. With the running example of Wikipedia - the online encyclopedia ...
Understanding Recidivism in the Aftermath of Wrongdoing
(2016)
Behavioral ethics research generally suggests that after making a small transgression there is a “slippery slope” that leads people to make bigger transgressions in the future (Gino & Bazerman, 2009; Tenbrunsel & Messick, ...
Three Essays in Microeconometrics
(2019)
Traditional econometric methods can perform poorly in applications. The poor performance is usually due to challenges faced by researchers conducting empirical data analysis, yet overlooked by large sample reasonings that ...
Driving Precision Health Care through Heterogeneous Outcome Analysis
(2019)
This dissertation is based on three essays that examine how to measure the heterogeneity of patient outcomes using readily available data, how to use the results to generate patient-centric outcome information, and how ...