Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Economics, Commerce-Business"
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Bayesian Learning of Relationships
(2017-07-12)Statistics is the art of communicating with the silent truth-teller: data. More legitimate, accurate and powerful inference from data is the endless pursuit of all statisticians. This dissertation presents our efforts in ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
(2015-05-18)This dissertation addresses the central issue of understanding how frictions to information flow distort the ability for prices to incorporate new information. In chapter 1, “Forgotten Portfolios”, I illustrate how the ... -
Essays in the Industrial Organization of Internet Markets
(2015-05-11)This dissertation contains essays that explore the incentives, mechanisms and strategies of platforms in concentrated internet markets. The first essay studies how two-sided platforms compete and set dynamic prices. In ... -
Essays on Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-24)Empirical and theoretical topics in applied microeconomics are discussed in this dissertation. The first essay identifies and measures managerial advantages from access to high-quality deals in venture capital investments. ... -
Essays on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
(2015-08-31)These essays investigate the role of entrepreneurial human capital as a driver of innovation and growth. In the first chapter, I estimate the effect of manager education on firm employment growth using administrative panel ... -
Essays on Financial Economics
(2017-05-12)This dissertation studies the implications of financial intermediation focusing on the two subsectors of the asset management industry: mutual funds and venture capital. Chapter 1 analyzes the determinants of compensation ... -
Essays on Industrial Organization and Innovation
(2018-05-11)In my dissertation, I explore policy-relevant topics in the pharmaceutical industry and in the intellectual property system. In Chapter 1, I begin by studying prescription drug demand, and argue that standard cross-sectional ... -
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 ... -
Meaningful Mediums: A Material and Intellectual History of Manuscript and Print Production in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Cairo
(2015-09-29)Meaningful mediums is a study of the political economy of writing in the first Ottoman city to develop a sustained urban print culture. Cairo’s writing economy comprised the longstanding manuscript industry, the governmental ...