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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
(2023)
In my dissertation, I study how the structure of corporate ownership affects financial policies of firms.
In Chapter 1, I show that labor mobility affects the timing of a firm's decision to go public. Employees of private ...
Three Essays in Dynamic Corporate Finance
(2019)
This dissertation is composed of three essays. Jointly, the essays emphasize the importance of using microeconomic data combined with dynamic models of the firm to address broader economic questions of relevance to policy ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2017)
My dissertation is a collection of three essays relating to three important aspects of financial markets - assets, firms, and households. While the first two chapters focus on financial linkage between asset markets (emerging ...
Essays on the U.S. Treasury Debt Market and Asset-Pricing
(2018)
The three essays in this dissertation examine questions in the U.S. Treasury bond market and an asset-pricing anomaly in the stock market. They are unified by the theme relating quantities of assets with asset prices. These ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Policy and the Prices of Financial Assets
(2022)
My dissertation investigates what information embedded in financial prices reveals about questions relevant for macroeconomic policy. The first two chapters examine implicit government guarantees in the U.S. life insurance ...
An Investor Behavior and Related Asset Pricing Distortions
(2018)
I document a stylized fact about stock buying behavior of investors. I empirically show that investors tend to buy riskier stocks following a realized loss. The risk measure that the investors seem to pay attention to is ...
Three Essays in the Public Economics of Perception and Belief
(2020)
My dissertation studies three cases in which the perception of current policy or beliefs about future policy shaped economic decisions. Issues of attention and beliefs about the future can have tremendous importance both ...
Essays in Expectation Formation and Asset Pricing
(2020)
This dissertation examines the role of investors' belief formation in asset valuation.
In the first chapter, I document that subjective bond risk premia implied by survey forecasts of future Treasury yields are acyclical ...
Labor Market Efficiency and Team Transactions in Major League Baseball
(2022)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate papers related to the player labor market and team decision making process in Major League Baseball (MLB).
The first paper focuses on the MLB labor market after the ...