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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 ...
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 ...
Essays on the Interaction Effects of Policies Across Jurisdictions.
(2013)
This dissertation analyzes the theoretical and empirical effects of cross-border policy dynamics, specifically state level bottle deposit-redemption systems and international corporate income taxation. As governments can ...
Essays on Dynamic Marketing Intercommunications.
(2013)
The dissertation examines two distinct problems related to “marketing communication
dynamics”. The main goal of this line of research is to help firms provide individually
tailored marketing contents to their customers. ...
Why Guarantee Employment? Three Essays on the World’s Largest Public-Works Program.
(2014)
The Indian government started implementing the world’s largest public-works program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), in 2006. With a legal guarantee of 100 days of public employment per year for all ...
Essays on Banking
(2013)
Does monetary policy act as a constraint on the quantity of bank credit? Does it affect banks’ risk-taking? Do markets monitor banks’ risk-taking behavior? These questions have important implications on our understanding ...
The Japanese Public Policies on Tax, Wages, and Standard Work Hours - Evidence from Micro Data.
(2013)
This dissertation theoretically and empirically examines several topics relating to the Japanese labor market. Chapter II explores how the 2004 tax reform in Japan affected the income distribution of married women. Quantile ...