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(2008-07-25)Department: EconomicsMy dissertation evaluates technology adoption and transfer both theoretically and empirically, with the goal of providing new insights into the consequences of technology adoption -- an area that remains understudied in ...
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(2016-06-24)Department: EconomicsLegacy carriers in the U.S. airline industry have a long history of vigorously defending their most important hubs from low cost carrier expansion. Since 2005, the U.S. airline industry has undergone some of the most ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers questions of information in industrial organization, focusing particularly on the structural analysis of auction and market data. Chapters 1 and 2 explore selection in auctions with entry, ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation comprises three essays on the LGBTQ+ candidate entry process in Brazil. The first essay seeks to gauge how individuating information about a gay candidate may affect approval of gay people’s right to run. ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: EconomicsA Bayesian game is a game in which players have incomplete information about the other players. As a natural extension of games with complete information, Bayesian games are usually difficult to analyze both theoretically ...
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(2023-07-12)Department: EconomicsCausal inference is a constant theme in econometrics. In this dissertation, I explore three issues related to policy analysis within the context of complex data structures. In the first chapter, I perform a sensitivity ...
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(2016-03-15)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers questions in the econometrics of discrete games of complete information. Chapter 1 proposes an econometric framework that explicitly models the selection of equilibria as a discrete choice ...
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(2020-06-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation includes three papers which use modern microeconometric methods to estimate the causal effect of policies relevant to education and urban economics. The first chapter explores whether state mandated ...
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(2016-07-19)Department: EconomicsFor decades, education research examined how to most effectively produce educational outcomes. This dissertation includes four essays that evaluate the effects of two educational inputs -- capital expenditure and skills ...
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(2009-02-05)Department: EconomicsECONOMICS ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND OIL PRICE VOLATILITY IN OPEN ECONOMIES OSAYI ETHEL OVBIOSA-AKINBOSOYE Dissertation under the direction of Professor Eric W. Bond This work comprises ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: EconomicsHigh schools in the South in the early 20th century served as both an important white collar employer of women as well as a means of transmitting human capital to their students. I use a newly constructed dataset of high ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers the health and labour market implications of the U.S. Clean Air Act. Chapter 1 exploits the exogeneous variation provided by the 1990 Amendment of the U.S. Clean Air Act in order to test the ...
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(2013-10-07)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation addresses three related questions. The second chapter models a monopolist with private information about her product, over which consumers have heterogeneous preferences. Consumers may incur an audit ...
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(2018-06-28)Department: EconomicsFinancial frictions are important features of the economy and yet their role in shaping business cycle dynamics and the pattern of international trade is incompletely understood. The role of financial friction is even more ...
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(2021-06-11)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation investigates the relationship between firm-to-firm interactions, firm performance and trade flows. In the first chapter, I examine the diffusion of productivity gains among publicly-listed companies in ...
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(2018-07-26)Department: EconomicsChapters 1 develops a game-theoretic model to approximate bidders’ behavior in a takeover process, accounting for their valuation discount due to the dissemination of confidential information and their uncertainty about ...
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(2017-04-01)Department: EconomicsThe recovery after the great recession has renewed interest in the functioning of labor markets in the U.S. This dissertation emphasizes the importance of higher order moments of the labor markets in several ways. First, ...
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(2013-06-17)Department: EconomicsThe economic effects of the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade agreements and firm level export dynamics are presented in this thesis. The first chapter focuses on the dynamic aspects of most favored nation (MFN) tariffs and ...
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(2008-09-15)Department: EconomicsThe dissertation studies the effect of trade liberalization in one sector on factor prices, employment, and average productivity of firms in the other sector (spillover effect) in a two-country, specific-factors model of ...
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(2010-08-09)Department: EconomicsThis thesis examines the strategic incentives of market players under constrained situations that generate economic externalities. The first chapter considers a model of competition in which economic activity takes place ...