Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "economics"
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Consequences of Government Provision and Regulation of Health Insurance
(2012-11-07)The first two chapters of this dissertation concern the effect of public catastrophic insurance programs. In the first chapter, I show how these programs, which only protect against large health shocks, induce advantageous ... -
Consumer Financial Protection
(American Economic Association, 2011)The recent financial crisis has led many to question how well businesses deliver services and how well regulatory institutions address problems in consumer financial markets. This paper discusses consumer financial regulation, ... -
Designing for Incentives: Better Information Sharing for Better Software Engineering
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2010)Software-reliant systems permeate all aspects of modern society. The resulting interconnectedness and associated com- plexity has resulted in a proliferation of diverse stakeholders with conflicting goals. Thus, contemporary ... -
Economic Games on the Internet: The Effect of $1 Stakes
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offer an unprecedented opportunity to run economic game experiments quickly and inexpensively. Using Mturk, we recruited 756 subjects and examined their behavior ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2012-08-10)Chapter 1 develops a model of parallel trading of corporate securities (shares, bonds) and derivatives in which a large trader can sometimes profitably acquire securities and the corporate control rights inherent therein ... -
Essays in Behavioral Household Finance
(2012-08-07)This dissertation investigates some of the factors affecting modern household finance decisions in the United States using natural experimental variation and administrative data. In Chapter 1 I estimate the effects of ... -
Essays in Development and Labor Economics
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Essays in Finance and Innovation
(2012-07-24)This dissertation consists of three essays on Finance and Innovation. The first essay argues that openness of research inputs can enable greater exploration of new research lines, particularly by academic researchers. We ... -
Essays in Financial Economics and Econometrics
(2013-02-22)In the first essay, I study the power of predictive regressions in a world of forecastable returns and find it to be quite poor. Using a simple model, I investigate the properties of short- and long-horizon regressions. ... -
Essays in Market Design
(2013-02-14)This dissertation consists of three essays in market design. The first essay studies a dynamic allocation problem. The second presents a new model for many-to-one matching markets where colleges are matched to a large ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory and Experimental Economics
(2013-02-22)This dissertation consists of three essays on microeconomics. The first two are theoretical papers that address issues in collective decision-making. The last is an experimental paper that explores gender differences in ... -
Essays in Microeconomics
(2013-02-13)This dissertation consists of three essays on microeconomics. The first essay considers matching markets, markets where buyers and sellers and concerned about who they interact with. It proposes a model to analyze these ... -
Essays in Political Economy
(2013-02-08)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economy. The first essay studies the various ways in which political activism affects policy making, drawing upon evidence from the Tea Party movement in the United ... -
Essays in Public Economics
(2013-02-19)Chapter 1 investigates whether physicians' financial incentives influence health care supply, technology diffusion, and resulting patient outcomes. In 1997, Medicare consolidated the geographic regions across which it ... -
Essays in Revision Games
(2012-09-18)This dissertation consists of three essays related to revision games. The first essay proposes and analyzes a new model that we call “revision games,” which captures a situation where players in advance prepare their actions ... -
Essays on Causal Inference for Public Policy
(2012-08-07)Effective policymaking requires understanding the causal effects of competing proposals. Relevant causal quantities include proposals' expected effect on different groups of recipients, the impact of policies over time, ... -
Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics
(2013-02-11)This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical macroeconomics. The first essay estimates a dynamic multi-product model in order to assess the magnitude of menu costs. The leading theories on monetary policy ... -
Essays on Financial Economics and Macroeconomics
(2012-07-24)The first chapter studies mass layoff decisions. Firms in the SP 500 often announce layoffs within days of one another, despite the fact that the average SP 500 constituent announces layoffs once every 5 years. By contrast, ... -
Essays on Industrial Organization
(2012-08-06)This dissertation consists of three essays in the area of Industrial Organization. The first essay established the theoretical motivations for, and implications of, exclusive contracts, with an application to smartphones. ... -
Essays on International Trade and Political Economy
(2012-11-07)This dissertation consists of two essays in international trade and one essay in political economy. The first essay analyzes the role of firm-level and country-level reputation for quality in international transactions. It ...