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  • Essays in Labor Economics

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    This dissertation contains three chapters on two broad topics in labor economics: the determinants of early career outcomes and the impact of an aging population (and related policies). The first chapter investigates how the retirement slowdown among older Americans has affected the labor market prospects of younger Americans in recent...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Paul Hong-Lum
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    04/09/2019
    Date Modified:
    04/09/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Market Power in Markets for Power

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    Description:
    I study how electricity generation firms exert market power, raising price above marginal cost. Typical studies of market power in electricity markets focus on how firms sustain markups in the short-run energy market. I explore other channels electricity generation firms use to strategically maximize profits. First, I analyze strategic investments...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Market Power
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    James Myatt
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    04/01/2019
    Date Modified:
    04/01/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on the Hospital Industry

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies the forces that drive the allocation of patients to hospitals in the United States. Even though it seems there is some market discipline in the hospital industry, we observe that many patients go to hospitals far from the quality frontier and we still do not have a...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Mariano Irace
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    04/01/2019
    Date Modified:
    04/01/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in Applied Microeconomics

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    Description:
    The first two chapters of my thesis are related to health economics, and explore how individual decisions affecting health can be impacted by different factors, including by government policy. The third chapter of my thesis (coauthored with Heyu Xiong) focuses on public economics in the Chinese context. >In the first...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Susan Ou
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    03/07/2019
    Date Modified:
    03/07/2019
    Date Created:
    2018-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Industrial Organization

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    Description:
    In the first part of the dissertation, I investigate the nature of retail coupons, a popular tool for non-price competition. The widely expressed view that coupons are primarily a tool to allow price discrimination has received mixed empirical supports. I depart from the static framework of the price discrimination theory...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Yongbae Lee
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/20/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/20/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-11-10
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Creativity, Unawareness, and Cooperation in Game Theory

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    Description:
    Game Theory is the branch of applied mathematics that studies the strategic interaction among intelligent agents. So far, standard Game Theory literature has interpreted "intelligent agents" exclusively as "rational agents". This work points out that this interpretation is an important limitation since intelligence consists of more abilities, some of which...
    Keyword:
    Economics and General
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Arnau Bages Amat
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/20/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/20/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-12-04
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Pricing Bounds for Bivariate Options with Super- and Submodular Payoff Function

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    Description:
    We first introduce the concept of copulas and advocate its use for multivariate option pricing. We focus on four types of bivariate options: basket, rainbow-max, rainbow-min, and spread options. We derive expressions for these options as a function of the copula. We then construct pricing bounds for these bivariate options...
    Keyword:
    Economics and Finance
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Jesse De Lille
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/20/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/20/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-11-26
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays in Economic Theory

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    Description:
    The main theme of this dissertation are departures from standard assumptions in economic theory, specifically, departures from the model of subjective expected utility in decision theory. Part 1 axiomatizes the robust control criterion of multiplier preferences introduced by Hansen and Sargent (2001). The axiomatization shows that the class of multiplier...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Tomasz J Strzalecki
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/19/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/19/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-08-19
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Three Essays in Theory of Vertical Contracting and Extensive Form Games

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    Description:
    In the first chapter we analyze profits and efficiency implications of a relation between an upstream duopoly and downstream monopoly in Hotelling linear city model. While exclusive contracts maximize the monopolist's profit, at the same time socially they are inefficient. Linear prices, while more efficient, usually also do not achieve...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Jakub Kaluzny
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Date Uploaded:
    09/17/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/17/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-11-08
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Essays on Mechanism Design with Limited Communication and Congestion in Global Games

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    Description:
    In the first part of the dissertation I study mechanism design under limited communication. Chapter 1 offers a detailed analysis of auctions with simultaneous limited communication. I solve for both welfare and revenue maximizing equilibria. The striking feature of optimal equilibria is that they are asymmetric even when the setup...
    Keyword:
    Economics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Nenad Kos
    Owner:
    Jason Christ Chandra
    Date Uploaded:
    09/16/2018
    Date Modified:
    09/16/2018
    Date Created:
    2008-07-21
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation