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Microeconomic Model Analyses
The first chapter, joint with Dr. Shachar Kariv and Professor Erkut Ozbay, compares thepredictive performance of a standard economic model to a variety of machine learning models by presenting nearly 1,000 subjects with a consumer decision problem – the selection of a bundle of contingent …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
<p>This dissertation consists of three main chapters - chapter 2, 3, and 4. These are different research problems studying the use of information. In chapter 2, we study a mechanism design problem where the Principal hires two agents to inspect a product, the quality of which is uncertain. The main …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… a collection of three essays exploring topics in microeconomic theory: conflict, alliances, and the origins of society; supply chain networks and industrial organisation; and game theory on economic networks. Chapter 1 Anthropological evidence has shown that humans in the earliest agricultural …
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Essays in Microeconomic Theory
… as Langtry, A., 2023. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 15(3), pp.474-500. A version of chapter four is published under the same title as Langtry, A., 2024. Journal of Public Economics, 231, p.105068.
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Essays in microeconomic theory
Three essays are presented which explore how strategic decision-making on a micro level translates into macro effects. Careful attention is paid to how asymmetric information and free-riding exert strong influences on t.he behavior of individuals. In the first chapter, a simple model of open-source …
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Three essays in microeconomic theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Essays on Applied Microeconomic Theory
The first part of this dissertation investigates the possibility of an output cut by a firm as a result of an increase in demand in industries with constrained capacities. We are specially interested in the crude oil industry, although the paper has implications beyond that market. Two simple …
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Three essays in applied microeconomic theory
The first chapter of my dissertation characterizes how the strategic choices of product variety, quality and pricing by a brick and mortar store evolve in the face of stiffening competition from online retailers in the market. For many consumers, online purchases are imperfect substitutes for store …
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Essays in law and microeconomic theory
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992.
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Employee stock ownership: a microeconomic analaysis
… of employee stock ownership is undertaken using microeconomic theory and the in-depth empirical analysis of two metropolitan newspapers with long histories of extensive employee ownership. Economic theory suggests that there are four important considerations beyond current tax incentives in …
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An Empirical Microeconomic Study of the Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are an important segment of the economy, particularly in terms of economic development (Baumol, et al. 2007). However, the study of entrepreneurs and how they create firms is still an open question (Venkataraman 1998). In part, this question remains open as a result of the academic …
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A microeconomic analysis of the determinants of creativity
Creativity is the development of ideas which are original and useful, in response to open-ended problems. Innovation holds the same characteristics, of originality and utility, and requires a similar standard of idea generation. Creativity influences the economy directly through the creative …
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Microeconomic implications of trade shocks in developing countries
This dissertation investigates individual- and firm-level responses to trade and local labor market shocks in developing countries. The first chapter studies the effect of a trade-induced negative shock to manufacturing employment on leading causes of mortality in Mexico between 1998 and 2013. I …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory: Contests and Matching
This thesis contains three chapters on contests and matching. The first two chapters explore the role of target prizes in contests with sabotage. The third chapter studies the optimal college admissions mechanism where students are horizontally and vertically differentiated.
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Student use of networked computer workstations: a microeconomic view
… authors are examined by literature review; microeconomic theory is deployed by explaining the operation of relevant models and their applicability to the study; the wider educational issues are explored through further literature review, guided by the development of a reference model. The …
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Game theoretic formulations and solution methods for microeconomic market models
Microeconomic equilibrium problems are intimately related to game theory, but the current state of knowledge for several types of microeconomic problems is limited. This dissertation rigorously addresses several of these problems from the standpoint of variational inequality theory. In addition to …
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The Determinants of Student Cross-Border Migration: An Applied Microeconomic Analysis
This dissertation examines two determinants of international student mobility, leveraging exogenous variation from quasi-experimental events to shed light on how students choose where to study. The first chapter estimates the impact of a shared bilateral education system on the location choice of …
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A microeconomic analysis of the competition in the home console videogame industry
… supporting the analysis, this study will use a Microeconomics Dynamic Model for Platform Competition on the current generation market data.
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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives
… industry were examined in this study from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. In the micro-level study, this paper developed a discriminant model for predicting bankruptcy of hospitality firms (lodging and restaurant firms). This model achieved a 92-percent accuracy in classifying …
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