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Essays on Macroeconomics
Chapter 1: Production Complementarities and Flexibility in a Model of EntrepreneurshipThe choice between salaried work and entrepreneurship has often been studied through the lenses of ability and wealth-related explanations. Nevertheless, recent literature documents that entrepreneurs earn less …
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Essays on reputation
In the dissertation, we study the value of reputation in a market prone to adverse selection and also the incentives of the individuals in that market to participate in the reputation mechanism. Ever since [Akerlof, 1970], it is known that adverse selection can hinder trade. Reputation can be used …
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Essays on banking
This dissertation contains three essays which look at the role of price competition in banking. The method of investigation is a theoretical one. The first two essays examine the relative efficiency of relationship banking and price banking. The third essay discusses the determination of bank …
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Essays in econometrics
This dissertation consists of three chapters with a focus on the identification and estimation of causal effects. We consider various empirical strategies that are commonly used in the field of social sciences in general, and in the field of economics in particular. The first chapter considers …
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Essays In Macroeconomics
This dissertation is composed of three chapters. In the first two chapters, I study the welfare and distributional consequences of government policies in economies with credit constraints and heterogeneous agents. Given the complexity to compute such models, the third chapter reviews the basics of …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
This thesis focuses on two themes in the field of Macroeconomics. First, the importance of family ties and insurance within the family for labor supply decisions, and their macroeconomic consequences (first and second chapter); second, the role of intangible capital and disclosure regulation in …
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Essays on investment
This research provides three self-contained empirical studies in investment management. The first essay performs a comparative analysis of the asymmetries in size, value, and momentum premiums and their macroeconomic determinants over the UK economic cycles, using Markov switching approach. We find …
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Essays on comovement
This thesis consists of three essays on comovement between individual stocks and the S&P 500 index, each constituting a separate chapter. These essays provide use with new angles to see the comovement. First, they find that comovement does not always change as people predict. Secondly, they find …
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Essays on Innovation
One of the top priorities of any policymaker is to ensure long-term economic growth, where one of the main components is technology. A major driver for technology advancements is innovation that increases productivity and promotes economic growth. This dissertation serves as further understanding …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… dissertation consists of three self-contained essays on macroeconomics. Chapter 2 "Churning, firm inter-connectivity, and labor market fluctuations'' studies the implications of firm inter-connectivity and irreversibility of inter-firm cooperation relationships on the business cycle. Chapter 3 …
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Essays on Microeconometrics
<p>My dissertation has three chapters which develop and apply microeconometric tech- niques to empirically relevant problems. All the chapters examines the robustness issues (e.g., measurement error and model misspecification) in the econometric anal- ysis. The first chapter studies the identifying …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… Recession? This dissertation consists of two essays examining these questions. In the first essay I study the extent to which the increase in uncertainty might have contributed to the severity of the crisis. The second essay examines the reasons behind the fall in the personal saving rate as …
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Essays on Entrepreneurship
<p>This dissertation explores the determinants of successful entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial entry. It consists of three chapters.</p> <p>Chapter 1 estimates the effect of regional concentrations of related industrial firms and business owners' cognitive and non-cognitive traits on their …
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Essays on Communication
<p>One of the central issues of contemporary philosophy and biology is the nature of communication. Early accounts of communication tended to focus on just one side of the communicative divide – the speaker side or the receiver side – and took as their starting point the case of human language. …
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Hedge Fund Essays
This dissertation analyzes hedge fund leverage and its determinants, investigates optimal hedge fund manager behavior induced by hedge fund contracts, and uncovers an evidence of a hedge fund transparency risk premium. The first essay investigates the leverage of hedge funds in the time series and …
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Essays on Election
<p>This dissertation focuses on electoral accountability at the local and national levels. The first chapter focuses on judicial elections in Houston, while the last two chapters forecast the 2024 national election. This first chapter examines whether changes in local crime rates influence voter …
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Essays on banking
… The thesis is organised in three different essays, being the first focused on real resources costs, the second on market power and price and non-price competition and the third chapter discusses the impact of such imperfections on the measurement of interest rate risk. The first chapter is …
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Essays in Microeconomics
This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. Each essay explores a different issue of economic interest.The essay in Chapter 2 describes an experiment designed to investigate if using assets with an intrinsic value that increases over time leads to persistent undervaluation …
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