Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays in Industrial Organization and Finance
(2021-05-11)The first two chapters study the long-run implications of bank branch closures stemming from the digitization of banking services and increased competition from fintech mortgage lenders. In the last decade, nonbank lenders ... -
Essays in Industrial Organization and Microeconomics
(2016-05-12)Chapter 1 provides descriptive evidence of the large variation in spatial clustering across retail industries, and develops a game-theoretic structural model which can explain this phenomenon. The model is estimated and ... -
Essays in International Finance
(2014-06-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in international finance. The first two essays study emerging market sovereign risk with a focus on local currency denominated sovereign bonds. The third essay examines econometric ... -
Essays in International Finance
(2018-05-10)This dissertation discusses central banking as world markets become more interlinked, as the Federal Reserve generates international shocks, and as the dollar becomes more pervasive globally. In the first chapter, I establish ... -
Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics
(2015-04-28)The way in which governments borrow has changed dramatically over the last decade. The first two chapters of this dissertation study the implications of the rise of local currency sovereign borrowing in emerging markets. ... -
Essays in International Finance and the Political Economy of Capital Flows
(2023-05-15)The integration of global financial markets is a double-edged sword, paving the way for increased growth and cooperation while also sowing the seeds for notoriously destabilizing sudden stops and currency crises. This ... -
Essays in International Trade and Development
(2014-06-06)This dissertation studies different aspects of the interaction between developed and developing countries in global supply chains. The first chapter studies the matching between importing and exporting firms in global ... -
Essays in International Trade and Economic Geography
(2018-05-13)This dissertation consists of three essays in the field of international trade and economic geography. The first essay develops a “market access” approach in an inter-regional trade framework to study the distribution of ... -
Essays in Labor and Public Economics
(2016-05-18)This dissertation studies labor and public economics. Chapter 1 is titled “How Does Unemployment Affect Consumer Spending?” and is coauthored with Pascal Noel. We study the spending of unemployed individuals using anonymized ... -
Essays in Labor and Public Economics
(2016-05-17)This dissertation consists of three independent essays in labor and public economics. Chapter 1 presents evidence on how exogenous worker exits affect a firm’s demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Using matched ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2014-06-24)This dissertation consists of three essays in the area of Labor Economics. -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2016-05-19)In my first chapter, I consider the long-term effects of World War II on women. WWII drew women into the workforce in unprecedented numbers and, often, into atypical occupations. After the war, they returned home where ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2021-05-07)In this dissertation, I explore inequalities in higher education and at the intersection of higher education and the labor market. Chapter 1 explores the employment effects of strengthening anti-discrimination laws for ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2017-05-11)This dissertation consists of three independent essays. The first essay analyses the relationship between Schumpeterian growth and subjective well-being. The second essay investigates whether more generous unemployment ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2021-05-12)My thesis explores topics in labor economics, with a focus on returns to education using experimental studies. Chapter One investigates how foreign and Chinese master's are received in the Chinese labor market using an ... -
Essays in Labor Economics
(2023-03-23)In this dissertation, I examine the determinants of workplace discrimination using the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a case study. The USPS is one of the largest employers in the country, and as part of the federal ... -
Essays in Labor Economics and Child Welfare
(2021-07-12)This dissertation comprises of three independent essays on the economics of child welfare. Essays respectively examine the effects of child welfare on parents (Chapter 1), on child deaths (Chapter 2), and the effects of ... -
Essays in Labor Economics and Contract Theory
(2012-07-25)This dissertation consists of three essays in labor economics and contract theory. The first essay examines whether one’s wage is based on information about the performance of one’s personal contacts. I study wage determination ... -
Essays in Labor Economics and Macroeconomics
(2022-05-09)In the first essay, we argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel ... -
Essays in Labor Market Inequality
(2018-04-17)The three chapters in this dissertation center on various types of inequality in the labor market. In Chapter 1, I show that sons crowd out the transmission of entrepreneurship from fathers to daughters. This appears to ...