Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2014-06-06)This dissertation consists of three essays examining the implications of human psychology for economic behavior and market outcomes. -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2013-10-08)This dissertation consists of three essays which make use of laboratory experiments in order to investigate how procedural or contextual factors impact human behavior. -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2022-05-16)This dissertation consists of essays in behavioral and experimental economics that address policy-relevant questions. The first chapter, coauthored with Elizabeth Bell, reports on a lab-in-the-field experiment among ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2024-04-26)This dissertation consists of essays in behavioral and experimental economics, with a focus on information processing and its economic implication. The first chapter, coauthored with Yuen Ho, studies the Spiral of Silence ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Identity Economics
(2022-04-19)I leverage survey methodology and controlled decision environments to study the role of identity across a wide variety of domains of economic importance. Chapter 1, which is co-authored with Benjamin Enke and Florian ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2013-03-14)Essays in this dissertation cover three topics in behavioral economics: social preferences, ambiguity aversion and self-control. The first essay, based on work with Aurelie Ouss, studies the behavior of individuals making ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2021-07-12)This dissertation presents three studies in behavioral economics, with a focus on factors that influence how individuals make financial decisions. Paper one examines the impact of the payday cycle on commitment decisions. ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2022-05-12)In this dissertation I study the psychological factors that influence economic decision-making in a variety of contexts including work place behavior, electoral voting decisions, and take-up of mental health treatment. Chapter ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics
(2023-06-01)Good economic decision-making hinges on whether agents appropriately respond to the incentives they face. Mistaken beliefs about those incentives, or inattention to important consequences of choices, can therefore distort ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics and Innovation
(2015-01-12)This dissertation consists of three essays, two in behavioral economics and one on the economics of innovation. The first essay, which is joint work with Emily Glassberg Sands, exploits the randomness of weather and the ... -
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 Behavioral Macro-Finance
(2021-05-17)This dissertation presents three chapters that study the effect of incorporating insights from behavioral economics into macro-finance models. The first chapter evaluates the impact of diagnostic (extrapolative) ... -
Essays in Causal Inference and Public Policy
(2015-05-05)This dissertation addresses statistical methods for understanding treatment effect variation in randomized experiments, both in terms of variation across pre-treatment covariates and variation across post-randomization ... -
Essays in Congressional Communication
(2013-10-08)Members of Congress must manage both their representative and legislative responsibilities. -
Essays in Consumer and Corporate Finance
(2015-05-14)The tension between creditors and debtors is an integral component in finance. My dissertation focuses on two important cases where this tension has important economic implications. In my first two chapters, I focus on ... -
Essays in Corporate and Consumer Finance
(2013-10-07)The first essay tests whether Chapter 11 restructuring outcomes are affected by time constraints in busy bankruptcy courts. Using the passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act in 2005 as an ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(2013-09-30)Written in the wake of the 2007-08 financial crisis, the following essays explore the nature and implications of firm-level financial distress. The first essay examines the external effects of financial distress, while the ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(2016-05-18)This dissertation contains three chapters. In the first chapter, which is joint work with Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan, we survey 79 private equity (PE) investors with combined assets under management of more than $750 ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(2016-05-13)Macroeconomic and institutional shocks are important drivers of firms' activities. In chapter one, I examine the role of patent litigation in affecting companies’ innovation. Studying a landmark Supreme Court decision, I ... -
Essays in Decision Theory
(2021-04-02)This dissertation comprises three independent chapters that span topics in decision theory, including ethical decision-making, learning from others, and anticipatory emotions. In Chapter 1, I model decision-making ...