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Author:

Chen, Zhiyuan

Title:

Essays on Innovation and Productivity

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Financial constraints
R&D investment
Total factor productivity (TFP)
Patents
Costs-benefits analysis
Patent surge
China
Patent subsidy
FDI

File:

Download ZhiyuanChen-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Eaton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jingting Fan, Committee Member
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Chloe Jeanne Tergiman, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wang, Jinwen

Title:

essays on educational investment and outcomes

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Parental investment
Child development
Low-stakes exam
College admission

File:

Download Jinwen_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kala Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kala Krishna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Cooper, Committee Member
Keisuke Hirano, Committee Member
Katerina Bodovski, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Olimov, Farhod

Title:

Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Dynamic Pricing
Dynamic Competition
Differentiated and Perishable Goods
Oblivious Equilibrium
Peer-to-peer Platforms
Airbnb
Demand Estimation

File:

Download FarhodOlimov-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Edward Schurter, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Brent William Ambrose, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhu, Feng

Title:

Essays on Contests

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

all-pay contests
uncertainty
information disclosure
experiment
stochastic dominance

File:

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Committee Members:

Ron Siegel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ron Siegel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Syed Nageeb Ali, Committee Member
Ran I Shorrer, Committee Member
Chloe Jeanne Tergiman, Outside Member
Zhe Wang, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiang, Jia

Title:

Essays on Asymmetric Information in Health Care and Consumer Credit Card Lending Markets

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Asymmetric Information
Credit Lending
Health Care
Welfare
Adverse Selection

File:

Download Jia_Xiang_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Jose Grodzicki, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Jose Grodzicki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
Peter William Newberry, Committee Member
Lisa Lipowski Posey, Outside Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhu, Shengbo

Title:

Essays on Financial Economics and Econometrics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Ross recovery theorem
equivalent martingale measure
stochastic discount factor
martingale condition
state price
path price
intrinsic inconsistency
implied process
fundamental theorem of asset pricing
canonical probability space
Markovian quasi-MLE
conditional asymptotic independence
mixing condition
near-epoch dependence

File:

Download phd_thesis_shengbo_zhu.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Ronald Gallant, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Ronald Gallant, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrik Guggenberger, Committee Member
Keisuke Hirano, Committee Member
Jingzhi Huang, Outside Member
Shouyong Shi, Committee Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Akbulut, Suat

Title:

ESSAYS ON VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS IN ALL-PAY AUCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Endogenizing Value Distribution
Learning Value Distribution
Technology Adoption Incentives
Ranking Disclosure Policies
Information Design
Entrant vs Incumbent

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ron Siegel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ron Siegel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Nima Haghpanah Jahromi, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Oh, Gee Young

Title:

Essays on Intra-household Distribution of Resource and Time

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

economics
household
labor
gender
inequality

File:

Download Oh_-_Gee_Young_-_Dissertation_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael David Gechter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael David Gechter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marc Albert Henry, Committee Member
Ewout Verriest, Committee Member
John David Iceland, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xie, Xiaochen

Title:

Two Essays on Firm Entry and Pricing

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Variable Markups
Gains from Trade Liberalization
Export Dynamics
Trade Externality
Economic Geography
Entry Costs

File:

Download Xie-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Eaton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Committee Member
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
Zhe Wang, Outside Member
Marc Albert Henry, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Oz, Gokmen

Title:

Essays in Reputation Games

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Reputation
Review platforms
Media bias
Repeated games
Information design

File:

Download GokmenOzDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kalyan Chatterjee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijay Krishna, Committee Member
Henrique Roscoe De Oliveira, Committee Member
Sona Nadenichek Golder, Outside Member
Barry William Ickes, Program Head/Chair