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Essays in Corporate Finance.
(2008)
This dissertation is comprised of three articles. The first article examines the importance of capital market imperfections by investigating the dependence of a firm's investment on its internal resources. I exploit the ...
Essays on Housing Wealth and Consumer Behavior.
(2009)
This dissertation considers how housing wealth impacts household behavior. The
essays pay close attention to the borrowing collateral role of housing wealth, and
address how changing house prices affect household spending. ...
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of the Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry.
(2008)
In this dissertation, I examine how political environments influence industry structure and entrepreneurial opportunities following deregulation. Though deregulation implies a removal of government control, I propose that ...
Essays on Long-Term Care and Aging.
(2008)
This dissertation contains three empirical papers on important health policy issues. The first paper looks at the effect of changes in levels of Medicare home health care services on the informal care use of disabled, ...
Provision, Interpretation and Effects of Feedback in Reputation Systems.
(2008)
This dissertation addresses three questions that arise out of the voluntary and subjective provision of feedback and its subjective interpretation. The first study is an experimental investigation of a mechanism designed ...
Three Essays in Health Insurance Coverage.
(2010)
Obtaining health insurance through an employer pools risk, but may lead to moral hazard, where employees with more coverage seek care valued below cost, and adverse selection, where the unhealthy choose more generous plans, ...
Three Essays on Resources in Education.
(2008)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines how a large increase to state aid to schools in New Jersey affects the expenditures of the affected school districts. The 30 school districts affected by the Abbott policy ...
Essays in Education and Labor Economics.
(2007)
The first chapter of the dissertation investigates how
poor households in developing countries respond to adverse income
developments. I use nationally representative longitudinal data to
investigate behavioral responses ...
Factors Affecting Consumers' Responses to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.
(2008)
Pharmaceutical companies utilize Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) advertising to generate consumer discussions with physicians and increase prescriptions. The dissertation seeks to answer a question not fully addressed in the ...
On the Importance of Commodity and Energy Price Shocks for the Macroeconomy.
(2007)
Although higher commodity prices are commonly thought to presage higher rates of inflation, the existing literature suggests that the predictive power of commodity prices for inflation has waned since the 1980s. In the ...