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Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates.
(2009)
This dissertation studies the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), firm
performance and the exchange rate using a newly assembled dataset on transaction-specific mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and firm-level ...
Three Essays in Public Economics.
(2008)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the incidence of tax credits for hybrid vehicles in the United States. A variety of state and federal tax incentives have been used to subsidize gas-electric hybrid vehicles. ...
Three Essays in International Trade and Macroeconomics.
(2014)
The first chapter studies the impact of globalization on the income gaps between the rich and the poor. This paper presents a new piece of
empirical evidence showing that executive-to-worker pay ratio is higher among ...
An Investigation of Consumer Motivation in Alternative Consumption and Impression Formation.
(2013)
Consumer behavior researchers have long been interested in how an individual’s sense of motivation maps onto the individual’s consumptive acts. However, more work is needed to understand how specific types of motivation ...
Essays on Investment Dynamics under Market Imperfections
(2013)
Chapter 1 highlights a source of financial frictions associated with intangible assets. I construct new measures of firm-level intangible and physical assets using accounting information on U.S. public firms. I find that ...
Essays in Macroeconomics and Public Finance.
(2013)
This dissertation contains three chapters at the intersection of macroeconomics and public finance.
The first chapter demonstrates that deep recessions can stimulate investment in state fiscal capacity. Large negative ...
Legacies in Organizations.
(2013)
Within some organizations, certain individuals seem to “live on” after they are gone. We often refer to these individuals as having a legacy, or a representation that endures in the collective memory of the group after ...
Essays on Tax and Environmental Policies.
(2013)
This dissertation concerns tax and environmental policy issues central to recent policy-making debates. Chapter I is written with Kozo Kiyota and concerns the design of international tax systems. In 2009, Japan introduced ...
Three Essays on Managing Competitive Bid Procurement.
(2013)
Procurement has emerged as a critical function, yet a challenging topic, since in many firms procurement operations are complex, and laced with misaligned incentives and information asymmetry between buyers and suppliers. ...
Some Problems in Stochastic Control Theory Related to Inventory Management and Coarsening.
(2014)
In this dissertation, we study two stochastic control problems arising from inventory management and coarsening.
First, we study a stochastic production/inventory system with a finite production capacity and random demand. ...