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(2012-05-18)Department: ManagementThis 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 ...
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(2006-06-30)Department: EconomicsA 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 ...
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(2022-03-28)Department: EconomicsChapter 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 ...
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(2018-04-12)Department: EconomicsThis 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 ...
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(2015-07-01)Department: EconomicsExcessive 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. ...
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(2022-05-26)Department: EconomicsIn 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 ...
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(2018-06-15)Department: EconomicsTrade 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 ...
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(2006-08-17)Department: ManagementThree 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 ...
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(2020-07-24)Department: EconomicsIn 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 ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: EconomicsThis 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 ...
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(2010-06-04)Department: EconomicsThis 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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1984)
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(2019-05-31)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesEducation 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 ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: EconomicsIn 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 ...
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(2015-03-30)Department: EconomicsTitle 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 ...
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(2016-07-05)Department: EconomicsThis 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 ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: EconomicsIn 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 ...
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(2009-04-08)Department: EconomicsThis 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 ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesMany 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 ...
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(2005-12-05)Department: ManagementMy 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, ...