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Essays on Macroeconomic Stabilization
(2016-05-18)Motivated by policy debates emerging from the U.S. Great Recession and Eurozone crisis, I study the stabilization role of monetary, fiscal, and macroprudential policies in response to short-run fluctuations. In the first ... -
Essays on Macroeconomics and Finance
(2013-10-08)The Local Multiplier: Theory and Evidence. I show that 1) the policy-relevant "global multiplier" can be written as the sum of a spending component and a taxation component, all scaled up by spillover effects, 2) the "local ... -
Essays on Macroeconomics, Finance, and Energy
(2023-06-01)Macroeconomic stability, access to finance, and access to reliable energy are three critical pillars of economic growth and development. This dissertation is composed of three independent essays that examine the impacts ... -
Essays on managerial response to information shocks
(2022-05-16)In this dissertation, I examine managers’ real decisions in response to exogenous information shocks and resulting changes in external monitoring. In the first chapter I study the impact dissertation I study how incentives ... -
Essays on Matching in Labor Economics
(2013-08-12)In this dissertation, I present three essays on matching and assignment in labor economics. The first chapter presents an integrated model of occupation choice, spouse choice, family labor supply, and fertility. Two key ... -
Essays on measurement and causal inference in education
(2022-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of psychometrics and causal inference in education. The first essay investigates the properties and quality of measures of learning outcomes in education ... -
Essays on Microeconomic Theory
(2015-05-07)This thesis contains three chapters related to the microeconomic interactions in markets. The first paper deals with markets with many participants, and in which monetary transfers are allowed, and studies core convergence. ... -
Essays on Mortgages and Government Debt
(2017-05-10)This dissertation focuses on mortgages and government debt. The first chapter explores the microelasticity of mortgage demand to interest rates. Using a novel regression discontinuity approach and using novel administrative ... -
Essays on Multisourcing, Trade and Education
(2017-04-25)This dissertation contains essays concerned with multisourcing, firm dynamics and education. The first chapter examines the empirical evidence and motivations for multisourcing -- the purchase of the same input from ... -
Essays on Networks and Behaviors in International Macroeconomics
(2021-05-12)This dissertation provides new analytical frameworks of network and behavioral theories in order to answer real-world economic questions where more simplified traditional models have struggled to explain. In Chapter 1, I ... -
Essays on Normative Macro-Finance
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of four essays that study normative questions on issues related to financial markets and the macroeconomy. -
Essays on Optimal Management of Portfolios
(2013-02-13)Individuals, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds constantly face portfolio management decisions ultimately affecting the lives of billions. This dissertation addresses two crucial challenges in the context ... -
Essays on parties and personalism
(2023-05-02)This dissertation comprises three essays that explore the role of political parties and personalism in democracies. The first essay posits that personalist democracies arise when politicians employ personalist strategies ... -
Essays on Place and Punishment in America
(2016-05-14)This dissertation consists of three essays on the spatial and neighborhood dynamics of incarceration in the United States. In the first essay, I apply theories of social control and urban inequality to study prison admission ... -
Essays on Platforms: Asymmetric Information, Search, and Policy
(2013-09-24)The three essays of this thesis cover two sets of topics: search in auction platforms in the first two papers, and political campaigning in the last. In platform settings, search cost reductions are often regarded as ... -
Essays on Policy in Low-Wage Labor Markets
(2023-05-11)Many policies seek to improve the lot of low-wage workers in the United States and thus target the labor markets in which they work. However, the effects of these policies may be complicated by the features of these markets. ... -
Essays on Political Corruption
(2015-04-29)This dissertation presents three essays offering explanations for the persistence of corruption despite electoral competition. The first essay, co-authored with Adam Glynn and Nahomi Ichino, asks what the effect of electoral ... -
Essays on Political Economy
(2015-05-19)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the effect of competition on media bias in the context of U.S. newspapers in the period 1870-1910. We measure bias as the intensity ... -
Essays on Political Economy and Macroeconomics
(2021-04-23)This dissertation consists of four essays on a range of topics in political economy and macroeconomics which are united by having current policy relevance. The first essay studies the effects of social policy laws ... -
Essays on Political Economy of Media and Trust
(2018-04-27)The current essays generally concern the topic of inter-personal, inter-institutional, person-to-institution, and institution-to-person communications as well as their reliability as means of information transmission and ...