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- This dissertation contains three chapters. In Chapter 1, I study the effects of bank leverage ratio restrictions in a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy where lenders can anticipate bank runs. This framework allows the analysis of the tradeoffs associated with bank capital requirements - while unlimited leverage allows capital...
- Keyword:
- mortgage, credit supply, haircut, creditor rights, collateral, and repo
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Lewis, Brittany Almquist
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15346 and etdadmin_upload_773034
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- This dissertation addresses questions in the fields of household finance and corporate finance. In Chapter 1, I use a quasi-experiment in Norway to examine how households respond to capital taxation. The introduction of a new wealth assessment methodology in 2010 led to geographic discontinuities in household exposure to wealth taxes,...
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_759556 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15210
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- This thesis investigates various aspects of productivity. In the first chapter I investigate the role of consumer demand in generating productivity dispersion. In particular, I study how differences in consumer preferences across the household income distribution generate dispersion in markups across the Indian manufacturing sector. I find that this consumer...
- Keyword:
- Productivity, Financial Technology, India, Consumer Demand, Information Frictions, and Misallocation
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance
- Creator:
- Gupta, Apoorv
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15092 and etdadmin_upload_742465
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- Technological innovation is a key determinant of economic growth, and my dissertation is to understand the links between the investment of technological innovation and financial markets, with a focus on how the macroeconomic environment interacts with and is influenced by the financial constraints facing firms. Chapter one investigates the links...
- Keyword:
- Macroeconomic, Innovation, Debt, Technology, Economic Growth, and Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Huang, Qiushi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15047 and etdadmin_upload_732371
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- Chapter 1 proposes a parsimonious two-country, two-good, and complete-market model featuring heterogeneous beliefs to address the Backus-Smith, volatility, and forward premium puzzles in international finance. The presence of the time-varying difference in beliefs has direct and indirect effects on equilibrium exchange rates. The direct effect appears as a wedge in...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- XIa, Shixiang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15074 and etdadmin_upload_741127
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a wide-range study of the relationships between the three central elements of the production function: technology, capital and its financing, and labor. Chapter 1 analyzes the relationship between labor and recent wave of automation and digitization technologies, showing that while they typically substitute for workers, in several...
- Keyword:
- flexibility, labor supply, household debt, capital structure, automation and digitization, and labor scarcity
- Subject:
- Economics, Finance, and Labor economics
- Creator:
- Zator, Michal
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_737737 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15059
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- Foreign currency debt has led to many crises in emerging markets. In the past decade, firms in emerging economies have drastically increased their foreign currency borrowing, making them significantly exposed to depreciation shocks. To reduce their exposure to external shocks, central banks have increased their use of regulation, such as...
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Keller, Lorena
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/29/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14972 and etdadmin_upload_715245
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- Description:
- This dissertation studies whether stock mergers creates value for acquirers. The first chapter of this dissertation conducts a comprehensive review of the existing merger literature relevant to this topic. It includes existing merger theories, empirical studies on whether mergers are value destroying or value creating, and methodological issues on empirical...
- Keyword:
- Economics and Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Qi Lu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-10-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In this dissertation we analyze the decision process of firms and individuals along two dimensions which are central to the field of asset pricing and macroeconomics. In the first chapter, we study the pricing decision of the firm in a framework where customer base matters. Surveys of managers show that...
- Keyword:
- Finance
- Subject:
- Finance
- Creator:
- Yizhaq Kleshchelski
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- 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
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