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    • Bayesian Learning of Relationships 

      Wu, Jiexing (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 

      Smalling, David (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 

      Lai, Zhenyu (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 

      Lee, Hoan Soo (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 

      Queiro, Francisco (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 

      Sokolinski, Stanislav (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 

      Feng, Jiashuo (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 

      Chung, Yin Kwan (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 

      Schwartz, Kathryn Anne (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 ...