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  • Essays on Political Finance

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    This dissertation is a broad study on individual and firm-level financial conditions and their effects on politics. In the first chapter, I study the effect of economic conditions on political polarization using micro-data on house prices, mortgages, and individual political contributions. I argue that shocks to housing wealth --- the...
    Keyword:
    Financial Crises, Political Polarization, Housing Markets, Mortgages, and Voting
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Political science
    Creator:
    van Straelen, Hendrik Philip
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662641 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14651

  • Empirical Studies of Auctions and Consumer Demand

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on empirical industrial organization. The first chapter explores how a seller uses a public reserve price to signal her private info about the object’s value to the bidder. The second chapter studies how a behavioral consumer preference called “price reference effect” could overturn the...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Guan, Junyan
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_898157 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16009

  • Essays in Development Economics

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    Description:
    AbstractThis dissertation consists of three papers examining economic issues in developing countries. The first paper studies how export activity affects prices in domestic consumer markets. Using extensive, spatially disaggregated data from India’s rice markets and exploiting a natural experiment provided by India’s rice export restrictions during 2007-2011, I show that,...
    Subject:
    Agriculture economics and Economics
    Creator:
    Manjeer, Utsav
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15595 and etdadmin_upload_820489

  • Essays on E-Commerce and Consumer Demand

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on theoretical and empirical industrial organization. The first chapter highlights a previously unnoticed property of commonlyused discrete choice models, which is that they feature parallel demand curves. The second chapter studies how a behavioral consumer preference with “price reference effect” can overturn the standard...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Wang, Ting
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_985596 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16562

  • Efficient Estimation with Smooth Penalization

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    Description:
    This dissertation proposes an oracle efficient estimator in the context of a sparse linear model. Chapter 1 introduces the penalty and the estimator that optimizes a penalized least squares objective. Unlike existing methods, the penalty is differentiable – once, and hence the estimator does not engage in model selection. This...
    Keyword:
    Lasso, Econometrics, Sparsity, Penalized estimation, and Bootstrap
    Subject:
    Statistics and Economics
    Creator:
    Gitlin, Sergey
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_682504 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14786

  • Essays in Econometrics

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    Description:
    This dissertation studies three distinct problems in econometrics. Chapter 1 proposes an adaptive randomization procedure for two-stage randomized controlled trials. The method uses data from a first-wave experiment in order to determine how to stratify in a second wave of the experiment, where the objective is to minimize the variance...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Tabord-Meehan, Max
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_655369 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14566

  • Essays in Economic History and Applied Microeconomics

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    Description:
    This thesis consists of three papers studying applied microeconomics and economic history. The chapters are broadly organized around two different topics: the political effects of media and the consequences of disruption to human capital. In the first chapter, joint with Susan Ou, we study the role of media in the...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Xiong, Heyu
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/12/2020
    Date Created:
    2019-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_662403 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14638

  • Policy Design in Publicly Funded, Privately Provided Markets

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    Description:
    Increasingly, governments contract with private firms to provide publicly funded or subsidized goods and services, ranging from defense contracts, social insurance programs to small business loans. In such publicly funded, privately provided markets, governments set specific rules and policies to allow efficient provision or allocation of goods and services. Given...
    Keyword:
    Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Industrial Organization
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Kim, Paul HyungSuk
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_984537 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16535

  • Dissertation on Economic Theory

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    Description:
    In this thesis, I study the effects of spillovers in all-pay auctions and the effects ofregulating wages and hours on the labor market. In the first chapter, I study a model of asymmetric all-pay auctions with spillovers. In this model, players compete for a prize, and the sunk effort players...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Thomas, Matthew W
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    08/23/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_1013829 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16767

  • Essays on "Small" Sample Problems in "Large" Datasets

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    Description:
    Many estimation and inference procedures rely on asymptotic approximations for quantities that are unknown to researchers. While often convenient, such approximations can be poor in practice, even when the number of observations is ostensibly large. One response is to eschew asymptotics in favor of finite sample bounds. While remarkable progress...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Cai, Yong
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    05/31/2023
    Date Created:
    2023-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_986619 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16598