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Skill, Job Design, and the Labor Market under Uncertainty
(2014-06-06)
The labor market matches agents with work, but uncertainty over the type and location of available work reduces the efficiency with which skill can be allocated to its best use. The essays in this dissertation examine the ...
Essays on the Transmission and Diffusion of Productive Knowledge in International Economics
(2014-06-06)
Numerous empirical studies have shown the difficulties associated with the transmission of knowledge and the limitations of its diffusion process. What are the implications of these difficulties and limitations to international ...
Essays in Development Economics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation comprises three essays in development economics.
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation contains three chapters. Each applies the tools of applied microeconomics to questions in labor economics, the economics of education, and social economics, respectively. In the first chapter, which is ...
Essays in Urban Economics
(2014-06-06)
In this set of essays, I grapple with issues related to the core questions of urban economics. Why are people so heavily clustered in urban areas? Why do some cities grow while others decline? What explains where people ...
Essays in the Political Economy of Information
(2014-06-06)
The primary focus of this dissertation is on information, its production and dissemination in society. In the first chapter, I explore the consequences of an increase in the number of newspapers on the quantity and quality ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three essays. The first essay finds that the household risky ratio, the ratio of high risk assets over low risk assets directly owned by households, is a strong negative predictor of the equity ...
Mean Reversion in Housing Markets
(2014-06-06)
Booms in house prices are usually followed by busts. This pattern is called "mean reversion." Mean reversion in housing markets has historically coincided with economic recessions across the world. Chapter 1 establishes ...
The Macroeconomic Consequences of Microeconomic Phenomena in the Housing and Labor Markets
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of three independent chapters, each of which use microeconomic data and methods to inform an analysis of macroeconomic models and questions. The first two chapters study the short-run dynamics ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of three independent essays. Chapter 1, "The Effect of Mortgage Securitization on Foreclosure and Modification," assesses the impact of mortgage securitization on foreclosure and modification. ...