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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
(2010)
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social ...
Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Room Assignment.
(2010)
The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are ...
Managerial Investment and Changes in GAAP: An Internal Consequence of External Reporting.
(2011)
This paper investigates whether mandatory changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) affect investment in physical capital and research and development. Using a sample containing forty–nine changes in GAAP, ...
The Effect of Trade Credit on Operational Policies and on the Relationship Between Banks, Suppliers, and Manufacturers.
(2010)
Companies in a broad range of industries and economies rely heavily on external sources to finance their operations. But, external financing could be expensive and/or difficult to obtain due to imperfections in real capital ...
Three Essays in the Economics of Education and Labor Economics
(2011)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I examine the role of persistent effects of past labor market conditions in explaining trends in the college-high school wage gap in the US. I show that changes in the shape of ...
Essays on Agency in International Finance.
(2010)
Firms and investors often operate in environments with market imperfections and agency frictions. It is common wisdom that the effects of these microeconomic frictions are amplifed or mitigated by the quality of economic ...
Experimental Evidence about Earning, Saving, and Borrowing Money in Rural Malawi.
(2011)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the wage elasticity of working in the day labor market in rural Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is ...
Brand Value and New Product Quality - Measurement, Theory, and Evidence
(2010)
The dissertation contains two papers that study the interactions between brand value and new product quality. The first paper develops a method to evaluate the effects of blockbuster products on a firm's brand value, and ...
Essays on Procurement with Information Asymmetry.
(2011)
Sourcing, once seen as a tactical function of vertically integrated firms, has today become strategic for firms that now rely on extensive, vertically disintegrated supply chains. Vertical disintegration leads to complex ...
Three Essays in the Public Economics of Offshore Hydrocarbon Investment and Production.
(2011)
Offshore sources, in both shallow and deep waters, are increasingly important contributors to global oil and natural gas production. As both resource owner and taxing authority, national governments play an important role ...