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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Outside Options"”.
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Essays on imperfect competition in the labor market
… quality of her opportunities at other firms (her outside options). To overcome the fact that many factors that shift an individual's outside opportunities also impact her productivity at her current job, we develop a novel identification strategy that generates within-individual (and …
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Essays in economic theory
… a seller when the buyer can invest in generating outside options at a cost, and the seller cannot observe his investment choice. I model the negotiation phase as an incentive compatible and ex-post individually rational direct mechanism, which maximizes a weighted average of the buyer's and …
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Essays on the economics of education, gender, and public policy
… with Russell Weinstein, we study the effects of outside options on worker's wages. In particular, we examine the probability that a worker's wage increases, which we proxy with a worker appearing as one of the five highest-paid employees in their firm, after experiencing an outside opening. We …
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Bargaining Theory
… II (chapters 3 and 4) we examine the role of outside options in bilateral bargaining. Two models are presented, each model is a non cooperative infinite-time horizon sequential game with complete information. The two models differ in their approach to modelling the interlacing of the search …
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Renegotiation and the choice of covenants in debt contracts
… becomes stronger when the borrower has fewer outside options and financial flexibility becomes more valuable. Finally, I find that when future renegotiation costs are expected to be high, debt contracts have more covenants that are directly linked to the current performance of the borrower, …
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Three essays in governance and banking
… bank. Privatization influenced firms with weak outside options the most. Moreover, bank-debt became more responsive to expected profitability of firms after privatization. Finally, privatization significantly improved the ability of the bank to attract and select more profitable firms, with the …
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Empirical essays on dynamic allocation mechanisms
… finding substantial heterogeneity in applicant outside options and preferred apartment types. Counterfactual simulations suggest that the range of mechanisms used by PHAs involves a significant trade-off between efficiency and redistribution. However, some commonly used mechanisms are never …
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Essays in Household Finance and Education Finance
… the probability of stock market participation outside of retirement accounts for these households by more than a quarter. The study provides additional evidence that college savings motives explain a significant share of stock market participation by demonstrating that only one form of college …
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Beyond the Veto: Chinese Diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council
… power is at its greatest when credible outside options exist and when there is a division in attitudes towards the legitimacy of the preferences of the U.S. and its allies, and weakest under the opposite conditions. From a policy point of view, the U.S. will have to craft nimble …
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Essays on Dynamic Tournaments
… prefer to end the game early because of</p><p>outside options and have the choice to drop out. Given an exogenous mercy</p><p>rule, this drop-out option endogenizes another boundary. And surprisingly,</p><p>the endogenous mercy rule is not always dominated by the exogenous rule in</p><p>terms …
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Essays on Mechanism Choice and Auctions
… baseball tickets on eBay. I find that sellers' outside options, dynamic incentives, and risk preferences affect mechanism choice. Using the estimation results from my model I analyze the welfare effects of a hybrid mechanism (buy-it-now auctions) eBay offers. I find that the existence of …
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ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
… decision making, whereby changes in women’s outside options relative to men’s result in more decisions made within the household by women, especially those related to expenditures on children. Accordingly, relative improvements in women’s bargaining power when children graduate from high …