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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 ...
Essays on Political Economy, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics
(2014-02-25)
The first chapter of this dissertation analyzes voting behavior across multiple elections. The voting literature has largely analyzed voter turnout and voter behavior separately, focusing on individual elections. I present ...
Essays on Normative Macro-Finance
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation consists of four essays that study normative questions on issues related to financial markets and the macroeconomy.
Essays in Health Economics
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation explores situational differences in physician behavior based on detailed electronic hospital records, shedding light on previously unobservable determinants of treatment decisions and processes.