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Quantifying the Impact of Environmental Policy on Engineering Design Decisions.
(2011)
In order to realize environmental goals, policymakers are increasingly creating measures to encourage the redesign of products to improve environmental performance. Developing an approach to evaluate the influence of these ...
Traditional Marketing, Online Communication and Market Outcomes Essay 1: Marketing Activity, Blogging and Sales Essay 2: Consumers' Social Learning about Videogame Consoles through Multi-Website Browsing Essay 3: Co-Evolution of Network Growth and Group F
(2011)
The scope of my dissertation is to understand how consumers’ online communication affects consumers’ behavior and market outcomes. The recent growth of consumer generated media (CGM), also known as “new” media, has provided ...
Creativity and Constraint: Exploring the Role of Constraint in the Creative Processes of New Product and Technology Development Teams.
(2011)
Research on creativity in organizations has revealed a variety of important paradoxes; paradoxes that some have argued are fundamental to the nature of creativity itself. One such paradox is the tension between freedom and ...
Essays on Mechanism Design
(2011)
Mechanism design uses game theory to analyze how to construct mechanisms that give agents incentives to produce an outcome as optimal as possible for the mechanism designer. My dissertation is on robust mechanism design, ...
More than Numbers: R&D-related Disclosure and Firm Performance.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the relation between reported financial performance and qualitative disclosure in the research and development (R&D) disclosure setting. While the influence of performance on firms’ disclosure ...
The Impact of Cross-Border Flows on Markets for Labor, Higher Education, and Goods and Services.
(2010)
The essays of this dissertation examine the determinants of cross-border flows, in the form of immigrants and foreign aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition ...
Small World, Big Ideas, and Smart Companies - A Qualitative Study of Academic Spin-off Companies and Knowledge Creation.
(2010)
This dissertation is about spin-off companies that stem from academic research activities from within universities. The focus is on the ways in which these companies create knowledge, the ways in which knowledge flows ...
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 ...
The Rise and Fall of Wealth Taxation: An Inquiry into the Fiscal History of the American States.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the history of fiscal politics and policy in the American states. It provides a narrative synthesis from the antebellum period through the 1930s, during which state governments created a fiscal ...