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Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology
(2014-06-06)
The first chapter of this dissertation explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. While prior studies of medical innovation under regulation have found an early mover ...
Essays on the Role of Banks in the Macroeconomy
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of four essays that explore the interaction between banks and the supply of safe assets in the macroeconomy.
Prejudice and Protectionism: Essays at the Intersection of International Political Economy and Psychology
(2014-06-06)
What explains public opinion toward economic globalization, and specifically, toward international trade? A wave of recent scholarship has shown that symbolic and identity-based factors--individual predispositions such as ...
Essays in Experimental Economics and the Improvement of Judgment and Decision Making
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents essays on the relationship between judgment and de- cision making and public policy, with a focus on gender diversity. The gender difference in career advancement is the likely result both of ...
Essays on Unemployment and Labor Supply
(2014-06-06)
Contrary to the predictions of standard reservation-wage search models, empirical studies consistently find that an extension of UI increases unemployment duration \textit{without} improving subsequent wages. Chapter 1 ...
Essays on the Economics of Wage Inequality
(2014-06-06)
In this dissertation I examine changes in wage inequality in two chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the slowdown in the relative demand for college-educated labor in the U.S. since the early 1980s. A large literature ...
Essays on Asset Pricing and Econometrics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three essays on asset pricing and econometrics. The first chapter identifies rare events and long-run risks simultaneously from a rich data set (the Barro-Ursua macroeconomic data set) and evaluates ...
Three Essays on Trading Behavior
(2013-10-08)
This dissertation analyzes trading behavior in financial markets from multiple perspectives. In chapter 1, "Exploratory Trading," I investigate the mechanisms underlying high-frequency traders' capacity to profitably ...
Essays on Instrumental Variables
(2013-10-08)
This dissertation addresses issues that arise in the classic linear instrumental variables (IV) model when some of the underlying assumptions are violated.
Essays in Law and Economics
(2013-10-08)
Part I examines the consequences of an organizational reform in Israel that transferred the responsibility for housing arrestees from the police to the prison authority. Using the staggered introduction of the reform in ...