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  • Essays on Optimal Contracting

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    The first chapter of this dissertation studies a continuous-time agency model where the agent controls the drift of the geometric Brownian motion firm size. The changing firm size generates partial incentives, analogous to awarding the agent equity shares according to her continuation payoff. When the agent is as patient as...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Finance
    Creator:
    Zhiguo He
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    08/31/2018
    Date Modified:
    08/31/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-04-23
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in Operations Economics

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    The first chapter investigates the offshoring decision from a network capacity investment perspective. We analyze a firm that manufactures two products to serve two geographically separated markets using a common component and two localized final assemblies. Two strategic network design questions arise naturally: (1) Should the common part be produced...
    Keyword:
    Economics and General
    Subject:
    Managerial Economics and Strategy
    Creator:
    Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    07/25/2018
    Date Modified:
    07/25/2018
    Date Created:
    2007-05-14
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Entry and Exit in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry

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    The ready-mix concrete industry is a fascinating laboratory for the study of industry dynamics. Concrete plants produce a single homogeneous product with technology and equipment that has changed little over the last 50 years. Building a plant entails substantial sunk costs since the machinery used to produce ready-mix cannot easily...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Allan Collard-Wexler
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    06/26/2018
    Date Modified:
    06/26/2018
    Date Created:
    2007-04-16
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Household Finance

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    This thesis comprises three essays addressing theory and evidence on the household response to tax-favored saving incentive schemes, with a particular emphasis on household risk taking. The US tax code and related regulatory institutions offer a variety of incentives to encourage US households to save and participate in risky investment...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Damien Leslie Moore
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    06/05/2018
    Date Modified:
    06/05/2018
    Date Created:
    2007-05-14
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Investment and Capital in the Macroeconomy

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    Both chapters of this dissertation relate to the aggregate value of corporations in an economy. In particular, they relate to the ratio of the aggregate total market value of corporations over the replacement cost of their recorded capital. The first chapter introduces a model that can explain why this ratio...
    Keyword:
    Capital, Investment, and Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Andreas Kropf
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    03/28/2018
    Date Modified:
    03/28/2018
    Date Created:
    2017-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Models of Persuasion

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    I study several aspects of a game-theoretic model of persuasion. A speaker attempts to persuade a listener to take an action which is highly ranked by the speaker. The listener knows the speaker's preference but is uncertain about what the speaker can say. The listener can commit to a persuasion...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Theory
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Itai Sher
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    05/30/2018
    Date Modified:
    05/30/2018
    Date Created:
    2007-05-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation