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    • 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 ...
    • Bawa, Siraj Gustavo (2016-07-05)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation contains 3 essays that analyze different aspects of corporate taxation. The first essay studies optimal corporate taxes using an enhanced version of the Melitz trade model that contains heterogeneous ...
    • Callaway, Brantly Mercer IV (2016-04-09)
      Department: Economics
      In my dissertation, I develop new methods to understand the distributional effect of participating in a program or experiencing a treatment. This goal is different from most research in economics which either (i) restricts ...
    • Ferrer, Rosa (2009-04-08)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay studies the problem of optimal law enforcement when individuals violating the law generate positive externalities for other violators. These externalities ...
    • Covelli, Lauren; 0000-0002-9029-6823 (2023-07-18)
      Department: Leadership & Policy Studies
      Many education policies are broadly implemented to have a positive impact on equity of opportunity for all students. However well-intentioned, these policies sometimes lead to unintended consequences. This dissertation ...
    • Xie, Fei (2005-12-05)
      Department: Management
      My dissertation focuses on the incentives from executive stock and stock option ownership, how these incentives affect the welfare of firms’ different stakeholders, and how these stakeholders respond. In the first chapter, ...
    • Cotter, Christopher Andrew James (2016-07-22)
      Department: Economics
      Under the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. banking system simultaneously experienced immense growth and also severe financial instability stemming from nationwide banking panics. This dissertation explores ...
    • Yang, Xiu (2012-07-23)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation studies the relationships among financial development, financial integration and growth. Chapter One motivates the dissertation by discussing the importance of financial market development and financial ...
    • Hoang, Trang Thuy; 0000-0001-7059-4375 (2021-04-27)
      Department: Economics
      While standard trade models are built on static settings with stable aggregate environment, data show that firms exit and enter international markets over time, suggesting that these decisions are dynamic in nature. The ...