Empirical essays on firm behavior in India
Empirical essays on firm behavior in India Ryan, Nicholas (Nicholas James) In this thesis, I study the behavior of industrial firms in India in the electricity market and with respect to locational...
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Essays on financial economics Vargas Mendoza, Alberto This thesis consists of three independent essays on Financial Economics. In chapter one I investigate the possible mispricing of European-style...
View ArticleOptimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets
Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets Cardenas, Ruben Ojeda Optimal intertemporal investment solution paths are derived for both, firms operating in perfect financial markets and...
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Essays on international macroeconomics Rees, Daniel Morgan This thesis examines the impact of terms of trade shocks on commodity-exporting small, open economies. The first chapter examines whether...
View ArticleSome effects of certain communication patterns upon group performance
Some effects of certain communication patterns upon group performance Leavitt, Harold J Thesis (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics, 1949.; Vita.; Bibliography: leaf 91.
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View ArticleEssays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance
Essays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance Venables, Sarah Elizabeth The first chapter presents a model in which a principal requires an agent to work on multiple...
View ArticleEssays on institutions in developing economies
Essays on institutions in developing economies Wang, Xiao Yu, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology The primary goal of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of how institutional...
View ArticleEssays on trade, CO₂, and the environment
Essays on trade, CO₂, and the environment Shapiro, Joseph S The first chapter of this thesis uses a general equilibrium model of trade and the environment to investigate two questions. First, how do...
View ArticleEssays on information and incentives
Essays on information and incentives Xandri Antuña, Juan P. (Juan Pablo) This thesis studies problems of belief and information formation of agents, and its effect on incentive provision in problems of...
View ArticleExposure to risk and its impact on human capital : essays on combat exposure,...
Exposure to risk and its impact on human capital : essays on combat exposure, military labor, and conflict duration Yankovich, Michael F This dissertation examines the impact of contemporaneous...
View ArticleEssays in labor economics
Essays in labor economics Williams, Tyler (Tyler Kenneth) I addressed three questions in Labor Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental variation to determine causality. In the first...
View ArticleEssays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries
Essays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries Peck, Jennifer Randolph This thesis examines three topics in the political economy of global oil markets and the development of...
View ArticleCompeting risks models of economic behavior : theory and applications to...
Competing risks models of economic behavior : theory and applications to retirement and unemployment Sueyoshi, Glenn Tetsumi Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics,...
View ArticlePanel data models with nonadditive unobserved heterogeneity : estimation and...
Panel data models with nonadditive unobserved heterogeneity : estimation and inference Lee, Joonhwan; Fernández-Val, Iván This paper considers fixed effects estimation and inference in linear and...
View ArticleYardstick Competition : an empirical investigation using state taxes and...
Yardstick Competition : an empirical investigation using state taxes and media markets Johnson, Lynn Christine, 1976- I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by...
View ArticleEssays in economics
Essays in economics Zabai, Anna In the first chapter, I explore the role of coordination problems and self-fulfilling beliefs as drivers of sovereign default risk. I employ global-game techniques to...
View ArticleExtrapolation and bandwidth choice in the regression discontinuity design
Extrapolation and bandwidth choice in the regression discontinuity design Rokkanen, Miikka This thesis consists of three methodological contributions to the literature on the regression discontinuity...
View ArticleEssays in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry
Essays in the industrial organization of the pharmaceutical industry Shapiro, Bradley T. (Bradley Thomas) This dissertation comprises of three chapters, each exploring different issues in the...
View ArticleOptimal taxation with endogenous wages
Optimal taxation with endogenous wages Stantcheva, Stefanie This thesis consists of three chapters on optimal tax theory with endogenous wages. Chapter 1 studies optimal linear and nonlinear income...
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