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    • Arslan, Hayri Alper (2018-05-16)
      Department: Economics
      Choosing college and field of study is important as it shapes individuals' earnings, working conditions, and lifestyles. Economists are interested in knowing determinants of education decisions, how various mechanisms and ...
    • Gao, Yuanzhi (2015-06-08)
      Department: Economics
      Microeconomic factors are getting more attention by macro economists as potential indicators and driving forces of macroeconomic conditions. In the first chapter, I employ a modified version of the long run risk model and ...
    • Carter, Susan Payne (2012-04-09)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation consists of three essays related to consumer financial issues of often struggling and low-income populations. The first chapter studies the joint use of payday loans and pawnshop loans. While these two ...
    • Wang, Cong (2007-06-25)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter examines the valuation effect of information asymmetry and the role of financial intermediaries as information gathering and processing experts. In a sample of ...
    • Reza, Syed Walid (2013-08-05)
      Department: Management
      The dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay finds that corporate giving is associated with CEO characteristics, but not with measures of firms most likely to benefit in terms of increased profitability. This ...
    • Guo, Lixiong (2012-05-18)
      Department: Management
      This dissertation uses forced CEO turnover events to provide new evidence on three important questions in finance and economics. Chapter one studies the causal relation between board structure and effectiveness of internal ...
    • Sengupta, Rajdeep (2006-06-30)
      Department: Economics
      A widely accepted feature of financial markets across the world is that there are limits to access credit. While this problem is extremely acute at times of economic crisis and recession, it is also prevalent at times of ...
    • Knowles, Matthew Tomback; 0000-0002-2922-2358 (2022-03-28)
      Department: Economics
      Chapter 1 of this dissertation is titled “Social Security Eligibility and Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Administrative Data”. I estimate the impact of Social Security receipt and retirement on healthcare utilization ...
    • Freed, Salama Salihah (2018-04-12)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation consists of three essays in health economics and policy. In the first essay, “Health Insurance Take-up Among the Near-Elderly in the Age of the Affordable Care Act,” I pair the exogenous transition of ...
    • Mathes, Michael Terry (2015-07-01)
      Department: Economics
      Excessive alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking are two activities that may have large negative impacts on health. Countless laws and research have focused on these activities because of the severity of their outcomes. ...
    • Campbell, Jason Amare (2018-06-15)
      Department: Economics
      Trade reform is an important policy tool as it: governs access to foreign markets and the organization of global supply chains; influences international trade flows; and has implications for consumer welfare in a given ...
    • Tran, Thu Ngoc; 0000-0002-3254-768X (2022-05-26)
      Department: Economics
      In this dissertation, I investigate two obstacles that a firm faces in the international market. The first is financial frictions, which limit the amount of financing that a firm can access. The second obstacle is uncertainty ...
    • Pool, Veronika Krepely (2006-08-17)
      Department: Management
      Three separate issues are studied in the three chapters of this thesis in connection with liquidity and trading activity in financial markets. The first chapter investigates whether price discovery in the option market ...
    • Ciarliero, Frank A.; 0000-0002-7279-8344 (2020-07-24)
      Department: Economics
      In Chapter 1, I exploit the identification power in a series of bank marketable securities to estimate a DSGE model with a novel investment and debt trade-off. The model is rich enough to distinguish bank induced recessions ...
    • O'Flaherty, Oscar; 0000-0002-3223-5993 (2022-07-18)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation consists of three chapters that explore business cycles and price dynamics. The first chapter examines the economics of stay-at-home orders during the advent of the Covid-19 outbreak. Using an event study ...
    • Seth, Suman (2010-06-04)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation consists of three different projects concerning three different aspects of measuring social welfare and poverty, when the measurement is based on more than one attribute or dimension of well-being. The ...
    • Josserand, J. Kathryn.; Winter, Marcus.; Hopkins, Nicholas A. (Vanderbilt University, 1984)
    • Bartanen, Brendan Patrick (2019-05-31)
      Department: Leadership and Policy Studies
      Education scholars have long recognized the importance of high-quality leadership for the success of schools. However, our understanding of the labor market for principals remains quite shallow. In particular, there is a ...
    • Gaeto, Lillian Rose; 0000-0002-3787-6124 (2023-03-23)
      Department: Economics
      In this dissertation, I analyze the effects of expanding access to financial markets and securities during the early twentieth century and study how the expansion was affected by the Great Depression. The mechanisms for ...
    • Fritzdixon, Kathryn Louise (2015-03-30)
      Department: Economics
      Title lending, in which a borrower uses his car title as collateral for a short-term, high-interest loan, is a growing part of the alternative financial market. These loans provide credit to a group of American who are not ...