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Essays in Development Economics
(2014-06-06)
Economic development is often associated with the adoption of new technologies. The three chapters in this dissertation ask how societies can achieve efficient adoption of these technologies. The first two chapters analyze ...
Essays in Monetary Policy
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three chapters addressing issues pertaining to monetary policy, information, and central bank communication. The first chapter studies optimal monetary policy in an environment where policy actions ...
Essays in Dynamic Games
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation presents three independent essays. Chapter 1, which is joint work with Mira Frick, studies a model of innovation adoption by a large population of long-lived consumers who face stochastic opportunities ...
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 ...