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    • Essays on Information Structure and Corporate Policies 

      Chen, Alvin
      These essays explore the connection between the structure of information and corporate policies. The first essay, "Firm Performance Pay as Insurance for Workers," studies a setting in which non-executive workers compete ...
    • Essays on Intellectual Property Rights 

      Chari, Mukund
      This dissertation examines imperfections in how intellectual property rights are granted to inventions, as well as how a new organizational form, the Patent Assertion Entity, influences patenting and inventive activity. ...
    • Essays on Inventions 

      Fung, Anna
      Inventions help individuals and firms to grow, compete, and survive in the marketplace. The context in which inventions are created can shape the nature and purpose of the invention. This dissertation examines how inventions ...
    • Essays on Macroeconomic Announcements and Asset Pricing 

      Ernst, Rory Joseph
      The first chapter of my thesis explores the correlation of asset pricing factor sensitivitiesbetween firms with important economic links. I find that firms’ factor sensitivities (betas) are significantly correlated with ...
    • Essays on Omnichannel Sale 

      Jalilipour Alishah, Elnaz
      In this dissertation, we study three problems related to omnichannel sale. In the first two chapters, we study omnichannel fulfillment where a retailer can use either the online or the offline channel to back up the other ...
    • Essays on Online Platforms: Policy and Monetization Strategies 

      Meng, Zixuan
      This dissertation analyzes the digital platform from two aspects, the platform policy, and the monetization strategies. Based on three different settings, the sharing economy, the user-generated content platform, and the ...
    • Essays on optimal bidding strategies in sponsored search advertising auctions 

      Chatterjee, Prabirendra (2013-11-14)
      In this dissertation, I model generalized second price (GSP) auction for keyword search to analyze the optimal bidding strategies of the participating advertisers. The results also apply to a more general setting where ...
    • Essays on Personal Bankruptcy Law and Small Business Financing 

      Hackney, John
      In the first chapter of my dissertation I ask whether and how debtor protection affects aggregate small business credit quantity. Using comprehensive data on the number and amount of small business loans granted by commercial ...
    • Essays on Personalization and Market Design in Mobile Advertising 

      Rafieiankoopaei, Omid
      Personalization and market design are two pillars of mobile advertising that resulted in a dramatic growth in this industry over the past few years. In this dissertation, I focus on these two topics and study the new ...
    • Essays on Similarities Between Executives and Investors 

      Cheong, Harvey
      The first chapter of my dissertation examines the effect of similarity in personal characteristics between start-up executives and investor principals on whether the start-up obtains funding from the investor, as well as ...
    • Essays on Social Media Fundraising and E-Commerce 

      Tan, Xue
      This dissertation has two components: social media fundraising and e-commerce. The first component of social media fundraising discusses social media users’ charitable content generation in essay 1 and charitable giving ...
    • ESSAYS ON STIGMA AND MORALITY IN HEALTH PERSUASION 

      Achar, Chethana S
      As my doctoral dissertation, I report theoretical development and hypotheses testing in two essays that delve into the psychology of stigma in health messaging and consumption. Across two essays, I examine the nature of ...
    • Essays on the Economics of Digital Markets 

      RHEE, KYUNG SUN
      This dissertation provides a comprehensive investigation of the IT economy in the digital market by examining user behaviors and institutions’ strategies. The essays include research questions from two different dynamic ...
    • Essays on the Empirical Analysis in Seller Behavior in Online Marketplace 

      Sun, Haoyan
      In this dissertation, I examine problems that related to the phenomena of online marketplace. I specifically study how different forms of digital communications affect consumers and how online sellers can strategically ...
    • Essays on the Issue of Piracy in the Market of Information Goods 

      Kim, Antino
      Copyright infringement in markets of information goods---commonly known as piracy---has remained amongst the top concerns for the manufacturers as well as for governments around the world. There exists an extensive body ...
    • Essays on user behavior in online platforms 

      Park, Kyung Min
      In this dissertation, I investigate user behavior in two different domains: online shopping and online learning. The first essay examines the provision of helpful product video reviews. As the provision of online review ...
    • Essays on User Engagement in Online Collaborative Communities 

      Garimella, Aravinda
      In my dissertation, I study user engagement on online collaborative communities. I explore user interactions in two contexts, Crowdfunding (Collaborative funding) and Massive Open Online Courses (Collaborative learning) ...
    • Essays on Visual Marketing 

      Pavlov, EVGENY
      As firms are embracing visual platforms in their marketing and branding efforts, little research exists on the relative effectiveness of visual versus text-based marketing efforts. In essays 1 and 2, we develop a quantitative ...
    • Evaluating stochastic discount factors from term structure models 

      Farnsworth, Heber K., 1968- (1997)
      This paper introduces a new approach to testing continuous time models which can be applied to almost any pricing model and does not rely on the pricing equation having a closed form solution. It also allows use of more ...
    • An Examination of Ambivalence: When Cognitive Conflicts Can Help Individuals Overcome Cognitive Traps 

      Guarana, Cristiano Levi O.
      Ambivalence has become a common psychological state in organizations. Although most of the literature on ambivalence has focused on its dysfunctional outcomes associated with defensive and coping mechanisms, this dissertation ...