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Three Essays in Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics.
(2011)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the long-run price elasticity of supply of renewable electricity generating capacity using the variation in state mandates for renewable electricity production. These ...
A Working Capital Theory of the Firm and Empirical Evidence.
(2010)
Firms under financial constraints exhibit different behavior from firms that are not financially constrained. This dissertation formalizes a working capital theory of the firm that captures the effects of financial constraints ...
Shaping Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Managing Uncertainty and Equivocality in the Entrepreneurial Process.
(2010)
This dissertation develops and tests a theory of how technology entrepreneurs shape their business opportunity and the organizing practices that facilitate that process. I suggest that entrepreneurial opportunities are not ...
Citizenship in Context: Investigating the Effects of Work Group Climate on Organizational Citizenship Perceptions and Behavior.
(2010)
Employees engage in countless "acts of citizenship" that benefit their organizations but may not be included in formal job descriptions. Yet, with few exceptions, scholarship on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) ...
Factors Influencing Demand in Major League Baseball: Steroid Policy, Discrimination, and Uncertainty of Outcome.
(2008)
The research presented in this dissertation represents three distinct types of issues influencing demand. Chapter II examines how a policy change affected revenues. The results show that there was a financial incentive to ...
The Value of Financial Statement Verification in Debt Financing: Evidence from Private U.S. Firms.
(2010)
I examine how the verification of financial statements influences lenders’ debt pricing decisions. To do so, I obtain access to a large proprietary database of privately-held U.S. firms, an important business sector in ...
Labor Market Frictions and Dynamic Labor Demand.
(2010)
This dissertation explores the microeconomic and aggregate implications of an array of employment
adjustment frictions. Chapter 1 investigates the JOBS Bank, a unique employment adjustment cost that prevailed in the domestic ...
Human Capital in Developing Countries.
(2009)
My dissertation investigates human capital issues, including education and health, in China. In the first chapter, I test for evidence of an intra-household flypaper effect by evaluating the impact of an educational fee ...
Essays on the Impacts of Environmental Regulation on Firm Behavior.
(2010)
My dissertation is composed of three papers that examine the effects of environmental policies as they relate to firms' decisions. The challenge of crafting environmental policies that achieve their environmental goals ...
Search and Matching Models of Housing and Macroeconomic Activity.
(2012)
This dissertation presents three papers on the macroeconomics of the housing market. Motivated by the fact that U.S. housing data are characterized by highly persistent and non-zero vacancies in both short run and long ...