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Essays in Environment and Labor Economics
(2017-05-10)
The relationship between climate and economic activity is an old topic with renewed policy relevance, due in large part to human-caused climate change. This dissertation provides a series of assessments of potential ...
Misperceptions and Beliefs in Effort Choices
(2017-05-01)
How much and how well students and employees work depends certainly on how unpleasant and useful the work is; but it also depends on how unpleasant and useful they predict it to be. In this dissertation I study one systematic ...
Essays in Asset Pricing and Macroeconomics
(2017-05-13)
This dissertation presents three essays. The first essay finds that investment strategies which generate “alphas” become endogenously risky by acquiring “betas” with respect to shocks that institutional arbitrageurs are ...
Essays on Game Theory and Market Design
(2017-05-10)
The dissertation consists of three papers on microeconomic theory. Chapter 1 contains a paper that contributes to the literature on learning in games, in which my coauthors and I find a novel interaction between active ...
Bargaining in Markets
(2017-05-11)
In the first chapter I describe a method to construct fair—or symmetry-preserving—stable sets of compound simple games from fair stable sets of their quotient and components, and I discuss how it contributes to the ...
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 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 in Industrial Organization and Econometrics
(2017-05-09)
This thesis includes two essays in Industrial Organization and one in Econometrics. The first two essays study the returns to the scale of data available to firms and its impact on market structure, using actual firm data ...
Essays in Household and Public Finance
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation studies questions in household and public finance. Each chapter considers a different economic policy setting (mortgage debt reduction, unemployment insurance, macroeconomic stabilization) and analyzes ...
Essays on Institutional Frictions in Fixed Income Markets
(2017-05-02)
This dissertation studies how financial markets can be distorted by institutions and their trading frictions. In particular, I study how thin and illiquid markets, concentrated risks and intermediaries' asset inventory ...