This dissertation explores the economic impact of price regulation in the pharmaceutical market. The first chapter is methodological in nature. I show that in the presence of unobserved regulatory constraints traditional ...

I examine the relationship between urbanization, proximity to urban centers, and the size and structure of village social networks, using data from 66 villages in Karnataka, India. I find that urbanization (as measured by ...

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 ...

This dissertation presents three empirical studies on how financial frictions shape the transmission and effects of economic policy. The dissertation investigates three settings: financial regulation, corporate tax policy, ...

This dissertation consists of three independent chapters. In the first chapter, "Optimal Taxation in Overlapping Generations Economies with Aggregate Risk," I ask how governments should leverage available policy instruments ...

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, ...

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 ...

What effects does higher patient cost sharing have on the use of mental health care, patient outcomes, and provider behavior? This dissertation explores this question by investigating the effects of a national reform in ...

This dissertation comprises three essays at the intersection of Urban and Development Economics. The first chapter explores whether well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also hold in three large developing ...

In my dissertation, I explore policy-relevant topics in the pharmaceutical industry and in the intellectual property system. In Chapter 1, I begin by studying prescription drug demand, and argue that standard cross-sectional ...