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The Value of Financial Statement Verification in Debt Financing: Evidence from Private U.S. Firms.
(2010)
I examine how the verification of financial statements influences lenders’ debt pricing decisions. To do so, I obtain access to a large proprietary database of privately-held U.S. firms, an important business sector in ...
Labor Market Frictions and Dynamic Labor Demand.
(2010)
This dissertation explores the microeconomic and aggregate implications of an array of employment
adjustment frictions. Chapter 1 investigates the JOBS Bank, a unique employment adjustment cost that prevailed in the domestic ...
Human Capital in Developing Countries.
(2009)
My dissertation investigates human capital issues, including education and health, in China. In the first chapter, I test for evidence of an intra-household flypaper effect by evaluating the impact of an educational fee ...
Essays on the Impacts of Environmental Regulation on Firm Behavior.
(2010)
My dissertation is composed of three papers that examine the effects of environmental policies as they relate to firms' decisions. The challenge of crafting environmental policies that achieve their environmental goals ...
Search and Matching Models of Housing and Macroeconomic Activity.
(2012)
This dissertation presents three papers on the macroeconomics of the housing market. Motivated by the fact that U.S. housing data are characterized by highly persistent and non-zero vacancies in both short run and long ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.
(2010)
My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social ...
Three Essays on Resource Allocation: Load Balancing on Highly Variable Service Time Networks, Managing Default Risk via Subsidies and Supplier Diversification, and Optimal Hotel Room Assignment.
(2010)
The first essay considers a service center with two stations in accordance with independent Poisson processes. Service times at either station follow the same general distribution, are independent of each other and are ...
Managerial Investment and Changes in GAAP: An Internal Consequence of External Reporting.
(2011)
This paper investigates whether mandatory changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) affect investment in physical capital and research and development. Using a sample containing forty–nine changes in GAAP, ...
The Effect of Trade Credit on Operational Policies and on the Relationship Between Banks, Suppliers, and Manufacturers.
(2010)
Companies in a broad range of industries and economies rely heavily on external sources to finance their operations. But, external financing could be expensive and/or difficult to obtain due to imperfections in real capital ...
Three Essays in the Economics of Education and Labor Economics
(2011)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I examine the role of persistent effects of past labor market conditions in explaining trends in the college-high school wage gap in the US. I show that changes in the shape of ...