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Author:

Mekerishvili, Giorgi

Title:

ESSAYS ON INFORMATION DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Bayesian PersuasionInformation Design
Disclosure Requirements
Information Disclosure
Crowdfunding
Microtargeting
Kickstarter
Optimal Regulation
Regulation of Disclosure Requirements
political campaigns
political campaigning
Citizen Candidate Model
Principal-Agent Model
Crowdfunding Platform
Reward-based Crowdfunding
commitment power
commitment to information disclosure
reputation
reputation system
long-run reputation
cheap talk
investor protection
capital formation
model of electoral competition
strategic candidates
voter turnout
political awareness
elite polarization
negative campaigning
instrumental voters
rational voters
expressive voting
belief-free equilibrium
strategic communication
dynamic incentives
three stage Maximum Likelihood
campaigning technologies
repeated cheap talk
entrepreneurship
asymmetric information
moral hazard
information intermediary
information intermediation
financial intermediary
Bayesian Persuasion
Information Design
optimal regulation
regulation of disclosure requirements
Moral Hazard
optimal disclosure on crowdfunding platforms
commitment vs. flexibility
commitment vs. flexibility in information disclosure
a fair punishment
microtargeting rational voters

File:

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Committee Members:

Syed Nageeb Ali, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Syed Nageeb Ali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Edward Schurter, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Bumba Mukherjee, Outside Member
Nima Haghpanah Jahromi, Committee Member
James Jordan, Committee Member

Author:

Erickson, Frank

Title:

Essays on the economics of education

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

economics of education
job mobility

File:

Download dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
John Jesse Cheslock, Outside Member

Author:

Istomin, Roman

Title:

Three Essays In Applied Micro Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Applied Microeconomics
Computational Economics
Econometrics
Market Design
Economics of Education
Demand Modelling

File:

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Committee Members:

Kala Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kala Krishna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Ronald Gallant, Committee Member
Ran I Shorrer, Committee Member
John Moran, Outside Member

Author:

Zhao, Yingyan

Title:

Essays on International Trade and Development

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

International Trade
Information Asymmetry
Location-based Policy
Class Size

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen R. Yeaple, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen R. Yeaple, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kala Krishna, Committee Member
James Tybout, Committee Member
Edward Jaenicke, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Chung Han

Title:

Dynamic Trade, Education and Intergenerational Inequality

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

international trade
inequality

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Eaton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Yeaple, Committee Member
Kim Ruhl, Committee Member
Yizao Liu, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Lixiong

Title:

Essays on Partial Identification in Structural Models

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

partial identification
structural model

File:

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Committee Members:

Marc Albert Henry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Marc Albert Henry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joris Pinkse, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Aydin Alptekinoglu, Outside Member

Author:

Ko, Eunbi

Title:

Essays on Frictional Labor Market

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

search and matching
unemployment
labor force participation
skill-biased technology
the Beveridge curve

File:

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Committee Members:

Shouyong Shi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shouyong Shi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Member
Ross Carroll Doppelt, Committee Member
Sarah A Damaske, Outside Member

Author:

Chaumont, Gaston

Title:

Essays on macroeconomics and finance with search frictions and inequality

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Macroeconomics
Labor Markets
Inequality
Sovereign Debt
Default
Search Frictions

File:

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Committee Members:

Shouyong Shi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shouyong Shi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil Wallace, Committee Member
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Giang Nguyen, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Wenzhuo

Title:

TWO ESSAYS ON OFFSHORING AND OUTSOURCING

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

heterogenous labour
matching
sorting
income distribu- tion
international trade
offshoring
taxation.
heterogenous labor
matching
sorting
income distribution
international trade
offshoring
taxation
outsourcing
innovation
trade liberalization

File:

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Committee Members:

James R. Tybout, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James R. Tybout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Eaton, Committee Member
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
Zhe Wang, Outside Member

Author:

Krasikov, Ilia

Title:

ESSAYS ON DYNAMIC CONTRACTING

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Dynamic contracting
Dynamic mechanism design
Financial constraints
Dynamic pricing

File:

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Committee Members:

Vijay Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijay Krishna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rohit Lamba, Committee Member
Syed Nageeb Ali, Committee Member
Chloe Jeanne Tergiman, Outside Member