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Empirical Analyses in Finance and Macroeconomics
(2018-05-11)
This thesis has three essays which are empirical studies at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics. The topics include low interest rates and financial markets, debt contracts and corporate borrowing constraints, ...
Essays on International Economics and Applied Econometrics
(2018-04-10)
This dissertation comprises three essays on the economics of international trade and econometrics of treatment effects. Chapter One, based on work with Xavier Jaravel, studies the distributional effects of international ...
Essays on Environmental Economics and Industrial Orgnanization
(2018-05-02)
This dissertation comprises three essays on environmental economics and industrial organization. A common theme for the essays is that they draw motivation from the real world and the theory literature to study individual ...
Physician Preferences for Medical Innovation
(2018-05-15)
Health care spending growth challenges the budgets of governments, businesses, and families. In 2015, one in every six dollars spent in the U.S. economy was related to health care – twice the share in 1980. The rapid growth ...
Essays on Development, Finance, and International Law
(2018-04-17)
This dissertation presents three chapters about development, finance, and international law. The first chapter investigates the effect of human rights litigation on market valuations of publicly traded defendants. I find ...
Essays on the Political Economy of Development
(2018-05-11)
This dissertation examines how variation in institutions, such as property rights, and cultural norms, such as trust, affect development in Central America and Central Africa. The first chapter of the dissertation examines ...
Adding Value to Value-Added: Theory and Applications to Teachers and Bureaucrats
(2018-01-17)
Value-added estimators are extensively used to study teachers and other groups. In addition to estimating an individual's causal impact on outcomes, value-added models describe the dispersion of individual effects: For ...
Essays on Globalization
(2018-05-11)
International trade has vastly changed over the last couple of decades with production processes becoming increasingly fragmented across country borders and production stages. This thesis studies the supply chain networks ...
Wrong Turns and Right Tails: Identifying Detours in New York City Taxi Rides
(2018-06-29)
Credence goods are economic goods whose quality is difficult for consumers to verify due to information asymmetry. An example of a credence good is a taxicab ride. This paper presents a novel methodology of evaluating the ...
Taxation, Corruption, and Engagement With the Formal State: Experimental Evidence From the D.R. Congo
(2018-05-13)
Few countries achieve peace and prosperity without a capable and accountable government. Political scientists and historians have documented the consolidation of modern nation states in Europe, and the emergence of accountable ...