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Author:

Igarashi, Yosuke

Title:

Essays on Matching Models

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

random matching model of money
stability
determinacy
lottery
optimal allocation
labor search
network hiring
welfare

File:

Download thesis4.pdf

Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Manolis Galenianos, Committee Member
Jenny Li, Committee Member

Author:

Frisancho Robles, Veronica Cecilia

Title:

Essays in Applied Microeconomics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Access to Credit
Credit Bureaus
Microfinance
Learning gains
Higher education
Selection
Labor regulation
Productivity

File:

Download Thesis_FrisanchoRobles.pdf

Committee Members:

Kala Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bee Yan Roberts, Committee Member
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
John Raymond Moran Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Xiao, Jun

Title:

Essays on Contests and Bargaining

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

All-Pay Contest
Tracking
Bargaining Order

File:

Download XiaoDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijay Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Adam Slawski, Committee Member
Kalyan Chatterjee, Special Member

Author:

Samkharadze, Lily

Title:

Essays in The Economics of Explicit Collusion

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

cartel
collusion
procurement
merger
monopolization
information disclosure

File:

Download SamkharadzeThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Clifford Marshall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Clifford Marshall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Member
Coenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee Member
Leslie M Marx, Special Member

Author:

Lyn, Gary Anthony

Title:

Essays in International Trade and Migration

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Marshallian Externalities
Comparative Advantage
Skilled Migration

File:

Download GARY_DISSERTATION_06_20_2012.PDF

Committee Members:

Andrés Rodríguez Clare, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrés Rodríguez Clare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Committee Member
Jonathan W Eaton, Committee Member
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member

Author:

Liao, Mouhua

Title:

Models of Strategic and Pairwise Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Market game
Limit orders
Nash equilibrium
Walras equilibrium
OTC market
Periodic market
Random search
Middlemen

File:

Download dissertation_Mouhua_Liao.pdf

Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Neil Wallace, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward James Green, Committee Member
James Schuyler Jordan, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Member

Author:

Tintelnot, Felix

Title:

Essays on International Trade and Multinational Firms

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

International Trade
Multinational Firms

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan W Eaton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Pradeep

Title:

Essays in Banking and Production

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Banking
Mergers
Market Power
Cost Efficiencies
Networks
Moment inequalities
Production function
Demand shocks
Inventories

File:

Download thesis_final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Keith John Crocker, Special Member

Author:

Das, Kaustav

Title:

Essays in Strategic Experimentation and Bargaining

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

R&D competition
Two-armed Bandit
Duplication
Bilateral Bargaining
Outside options
Incomplete information
Coase Conjecture

File:

Download kaustav_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kalyan Chatterjee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijay Krishna, Committee Member
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Susan Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Luo, Yao

Title:

Bundling and Nonlinear Pricing in Telecommunications

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Bundling
Nonlinear Pricing
Telecommunications
Multidimensional Screening
Asymmetric Information

File:

Download thesis_yluo_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Isabelle Perrigne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan W Eaton, Committee Member
Fenghua Song, Committee Member
Quang Vuong, Special Member

Author:

Zhang, Hongsong

Title:

Three Essays on Firm Productivity in Industrial Organization and International Trade

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

heterogeneous productivity
industrial organization
international trade
import

File:

Download HZhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Vikram

Title:

Essays in the Economics of Explicit Collusion

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Cartel
Collusion
Procurement
Merger
Monopolization
Price Announcements
Endogenous Quantity

File:

Download Thesis_VikramKumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Clifford Marshall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Clifford Marshall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie M Marx, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Vijay Krishna, Committee Member
Anthony Mark Kwasnica, Committee Member
Leslie M Marx, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Nianqing

Title:

Identification, Estimation and Testing in Empirical Games

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Discrete Games
First-price Auctions
Incomplete Information
Bayesian Nash Equilibrium
Monotone Strategy

File:

Download dissertation_Nianqing_Liu_2013-07-25.pdf

Committee Members:

Quang Vuong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sung Jae Jun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member
Isabelle Perrigne, Special Member
Robert Clifford Marshall, Committee Member

Author:

Han, Minsoo

Title:

Three Essays on Misallocation and Productivity

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

misallocation
total factor productivity
financial frictions

File:

Download MinsooHanDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Neil Wallace, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saroj Bhattarai, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
David Gerard Abler, Special Member

Author:

Liu, Yanping

Title:

Factor Adjustment Costs: Implications for Domestic and Export Sales Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

factor adjustment costs
investment
export dynamics

File:

Download Yanping_Liu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan W Eaton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James R. Tybout, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
David Gerard Abler, Special Member

Author:

Key, James Oliver

Title:

Essays on International Trade and Education

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Export dynamics
intermediate inputs

File:

Download Key-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kala Krishna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Ross Yeaple, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
John Raymond Moran Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Marlon L

Title:

Essays on Two Sources of Market Imperfections: Consumer Search Costs and Consumer Myopia.

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Consumer search cost
advertising
non-informative advertising
dynamic advertising
overdraft services
myopic consumers

File:

Download Marlon_L_Williams_Dissertation_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edward James Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
N Edward Coulson, Committee Member
Lisa Lipowski Posey, Committee Member
Edward James Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Mao, Jiaming

Title:

Essays in Firm and Labor Market Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Labor market dynamics
graduate school enrollment
dynamic games of imperfect competition

File:

Download Jiaming_Mao_-_Dissertation_-12.05.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Clifford Marshall, Special Member
James R. Tybout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward James Green, Committee Member
Theodore Papageorgiou, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Eric Plutzer, Special Member

Author:

Li, Shengyu

Title:

Essays on Productivity, Uncertainty, and Firm Activities

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

uncertainty
Bayesian learning
productivity
export dynamics; production functions
unobserved price bias
productivity dispers

File:

Download Shengyu_LI_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark John Roberts, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James R. Tybout, Committee Member
Paul L E Grieco, Committee Member
Spiro E Stefanou, Special Member

Author:

Akyol, Ethem

Title:

Essays On Mechanism Design Without Transfers

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

Mechanism Design
School Choice
Colonel Blotto
Incomplete Information

File:

Download EthemAkyol-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijay Krishna, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kalyan Chatterjee, Committee Member
Marc Albert Henry, Committee Member
Aydin Alptekinoglu, Committee Member