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Essays in Labor Economics.
(2011)
This dissertation is composed of two essays, both which use data from original survey projects to examine issues related to work choice.
The first essay examines the labor supply effects of the wealth losses during the ...
A Fixed-Point Approach to Equilibrium Pricing in Differentiated Product Markets.
(2008)
The use of passenger cars in the U.S. is widely recognized as a primary source of greenhouse gas emissions. Among other concerns related to transportation energy usage, these emissions have motivated policy makers to ...
Business Value of Information Sharing and the Role of Emerging Technologies. Business Value of Information Sharing and the Role of Emerging Technologies.
(2009)
Information Technology has brought significant benefits to organizations by allowing greater information sharing within and across firm boundaries leading to performance improvements. Emerging technologies such as Service ...
An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
(2009)
In my first paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions ...
Taxes and Portfolio Choice.
(2010)
The three essays of this dissertation present complementary evidence that taxes influence the structure of household financial portfolios. Because an investment can deliver different after-tax returns to different investors, ...
The Role of Information Technology in Alliances and Mergers.
(2009)
This dissertation examines how investments in information technology (IT) influence the value that firms derive from merging or collaborating with other firms. The dissertation is organized as follows. The first chapter, ...
Essays on Asset Pricing
(2009)
My dissertation aims to explain two features of Asset Pricing: the “high tech bubble” and the return comovement anomaly.
In Chapter One, I show that a generalized version of the standard neoclassical investment model can ...
Essays on Foreign Direct Investment and International Business Cycles.
(2012)
This dissertation studies two topics. First, a thorough analysis of the investment strategies of multinational firms is conducted. Empirical relationships that govern the evolution of foreign equity participation at the ...
Ozone Alerts and Asthma Exacerbations: A Case Study of Dallas-Fort Worth 2000-2008.
(2010)
The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of public information about air quality (ozone alerts) in modifying the effects of air pollution on asthma exacerbations, using a range of measures that encompass varying ...
Essays on Private Equity Finance and Supply Chain Management.
(2012)
Competition and uncertainty are omnipresent in today’s economic environment. This dissertation examines competition and uncertainty in private equity (PE) and supply chains through three papers. Each paper employs Cournot ...