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Three Essays on Labor and Credit Markets.
(2009)
The first paper demonstrates the important role of job displacement in the household bankruptcy decision. Consistent with predicted filing behavior under persistent income shocks, I find that households in the NLSY are ...
Three Essays on Professional Advising.
(2008)
This dissertation considers three topics in professional advising and forecasting. Chapter 1 examines a principal's optimal contracting with experts. In an environment where experts have heterogeneous private signal ...
Essays on Integrating Product Design and Marketing Research.
(2009)
Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to ...
Efficient Regularized Solution Path Algorithms with Applications in Machine Learning and Data Mining.
(2008)
The topic of this dissertation is based on regularization methods and efficient solution path algorithms for machine learning and data mining.
The first essay proposes the doubly regularized support vector machine (DrSVM) ...
Accounting Fraud and Institutional Investors.
(2008)
This dissertation examines institutional investors' trading behavior in a sample of
322 firms alleged in Accounting, Auditing, and Enforcement Releases to have
manipulated their accounting earnings (hereafter fraud firms). ...
Three Essays on Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentives, and Government Expenditures.
(2008)
The first essay proposes potential benefits from monitoring as important determinants of institutional block holding, where the measures for monitoring benefits are identified from the information asymmetry problem. Using ...
Convergence in Global Manufacturing Compensation Costs: An International Trade Perspective/
(2009)
The potential for convergence in compensation costs across countries and over time is an important issue in the economic literature. Central theories of macroeconomics and international trade point toward convergence in ...
The Impact of Legal Challenges to Affirmative Action on Educational Choice.
(2007)
The first chapter of the dissertation explores the impact of the United State's Supreme
Court's 2003 decisions in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger on applications
and admissions at an elite public university. ...
Essays on International Fragmentation and Intermediate Goods Trade.
(2009)
Chapter 1 addresses the choice of production location for a Northern firm between a developed country (the North) and a developing country (the South), where spillover of knowledge occurs from the Northern firm producing ...
Three Essays in Public Finance and Labor Economics.
(2007)
The first paper of this dissertation utilizes unique data on teachers' union election certifications in Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota to analyze the effect of teachers' unions on education production. I find teachers' unions ...