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Three Essays on the Effectiveness of Voluntary Forest Certification.
(2015)
In Central Africa, finite contracts, weak local forest law, and poor monitoring erode incentives for firms to manage forests responsibly. In response, voluntary, independent certification of forest management practices ...
Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Information Systems, Alliance Portfolios, and Firm Performance: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.
(2013)
A longstanding body of information systems (IS) research has been devoted to identifying the role of information technology (IT) in enhancing organizational performance. As interorganizational relationships have become an ...
Three Misallocations
(2014)
I study three forms of misallocation that distort production and lower aggregate economic output. Imperfect markets and imperfect governance are hallmarks of a developing country. I assess whether the misallocation caused ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics.
(2013)
My dissertation, Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics, provides an inter-disciplinary look at topics involving choice and welfare in economics.
In my first chapter, Growing Up in a Steel Town: Early-Life Exposure and ...
Competition and Optimization in Electricity Systems
(2014)
Electricity prices are characterized by high volatility and severe price spikes. At the root of these phenomena is the strategic behavior of market participants. A good understanding of the market competition is key to ...
When Finance Meets Trade: Three Essays in International Economics.
(2016)
This dissertation examines international capital mobility, focusing on equity and debt markets. I not only study the determinants and patterns observed in capital markets, but also investigate how capital flows affect and ...
Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets.
(2015)
This dissertation uses microeconomic theory to examine learning and beliefs in markets that are not centralized, in order to refine our knowledge of how information asymmetries affect market outcomes. I approach problems ...
Three Essays on Finance and Health Care Organizations.
(2013)
This dissertation includes three essays that examine the interactions between financial arrangements and product market outcomes in the health care industry theoretically and empirically. Integrating finance and health ...