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Three Essays in Financial Economics.
(2011)
Chapter 1 is a critique of a highly influential paper in corporate governance. Chhaochharia and Grinstein (2009) estimate that CEO pay decreases 17% more in firms that were not compliant with the recent NYSE/Nasdaq board ...
Measuring and Leveraging the Contribution of Sport to Business and Society.
(2012)
Recently, sports have been recognized as a powerful means to promote education, societal equity, health, culture, sustainability and peace. This unique potential is based on the universal popularity of sport in global ...
Essays on Aging and Human Capital.
(2011)
This dissertation comprises three distinct essays on aging and human capital. The first essay focuses on the financial literacy of older women. In the U.S., women tend to have lower levels of financial literacy than men. ...
Optimal Production Control under Uncertainty with Revenue Management Considerations.
(2010)
This dissertation consists of three essays on supply chain and revenue management. Its main focus is the integration of dynamic production and demand management decisions for multiple products facing uncertain demand. ...
Essays on the Economics of Work and Non-Traditional Families.
(2011)
Recent changes in the structure of families and households suggest a need for family economists to broaden their focus beyond the traditional nuclear family. This dissertation examines the trade-offs between work and family ...
Essays in Property Taxation and Multinational Tax Avoidance
(2011)
This dissertation exploits variation in tax policies in order to better understand the incentive effects of taxation on individual and firm behavior. The results presented herein are intended to inform policy debates in ...
Empirical Game-Theoretic Methods for Strategy Design and Analysis in Complex Games.
(2008)
Complex multi-agent systems often are not amenable to standard game-theoretic analysis. I study methods for strategic reasoning that scale to more complex interactions, drawing on computational and empirical techniques. ...
Information in Games.
(2011)
In the first chapter, we tightly bound from the outside the set of sequential equilibrium payoffs in repeated games of private monitoring. To do this, we develop a tractable new solution concept for standard repeated games ...
Cognition and Sensory Perception: The Effects of Advertising and Mental Stimulation on the Perceptual Consumption Experience.
(2011)
Within my dissertation, I focus on the interplay of cognition and sensation, addressing the impact of advertising on the sensory experience (Essay 1: “The Effects of Advertising Copy on Sensory Thoughts and Perceived ...
Sensemaking as a Trigger for Change in University Emergency Response Routines: Ethnographic and Case Study Analyses of a Residential Life Department.
(2010)
In light of incidents like the Virginia Tech massacre, there is growing need for scholarship on emergency management in higher education. Traditional literature has focused on locating breakdowns, blame, and accountability ...