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Essays on Risk and Uncertainty: Insights from Behavioral Economics
Essays on Risk and Uncertainty: Insights from Behavioral Economics Sensitization, Excess Volatility, and Extraordinary Persistence It is well-documented that stock prices are more volatile than their underlying fundamentals. ... -
Essays on Risk Avoidance Behaviors
This dissertation is a collection of essays on individual’s risk avoidance behaviors. Risk avoidance behavior is a key topic in behavioral economics, and it is also a significant impactor of market dynamics. Chapter 1 ... -
Essays on Social Capital and Economic Growth
(2013-02-25)In this thesis we present three models to analyze the dynamic relationship between social capital and economic growth. Throughout it is assumed that social capital increases with socialization while it decreases with labor ... -
Essays on Social Demand Estimation: Evidence from CAPS and Steam
This dissertation examines the role of peer influence on the demand decisions made by socially connected consumers within markets for household investment and digital video games. In both applications, novel and rich data ... -
Essays on Stock Prices and Equity Premium
This dissertation studies the role of cash flow in explaining stock price variations and the determination of equity premium after correcting for the measurement error of cash flow growth. In Chapter 1, we incorporate ... -
Essays on Subjective Well-Being and Public Finance
(2013-07-25)This dissertation explores relationships between well-being and public finance by using subjective well-being measures such as self-reported life satisfaction. The first chapter summarizes the discussion over the use of ... -
Essays on the Analysis of Dynamic Games
This dissertation seeks to combine ideas from literature in Machine Learning and the econometric analysis of games, and contributes to the analysis of dynamic competition in the context of high dimensional covariates. ... -
Essays on the Digital Transformation of Retail Grocery Industry
This dissertation looks at the profound impact of digital transformation in the grocery retail industry. It specifically focuses on the competitive repercussions of Amazon's foray into the grocery market, the effects of ... -
Essays on the Econometrics of Games
This dissertation studies identification, estimation and inference for various types of staticgames of incomplete information, a class of games in which players do not have full information about their opponents. Such games ... -
Essays on the Economics of Crime and Family
This dissertation studies topics in the economics of crime and family. In the first chapter, I examine transfer schedules for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and find a causal relationship between ... -
Essays on the Economics of Payment Card Industry
My dissertation consists of three chapters that address important questions in the payment card industry. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the institutional background, and introduces the problem of regressive distributional ... -
Essays on the Economics of the Motion Picture Industry
My dissertation consists of three chapters that address important questions in the U.S. motion picture industry. In Chapter 1, I limit the attention to the theatrical market and use a linear model with fixed effects to ... -
Essays on the Effects of Structural Reforms
This dissertation studies the effects of structural reforms. In Chapter 1, I analyze the distributional consequences of structural reforms based on a theoretical model, for to my best knowledge, existing studies on the ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Market Reforms and Self-Employment
The labor market is undoubtedly the closest and most intimate aspect of the economy that the individuals face. The type of employment has also evolved over time alongside the labor market. While much study has been focused ... -
Essays on the Puzzles in International Finance
The overall theme of this dissertation is the explanation of puzzles in international finance. Empirically, exchange rates seem to be disconnected to the economic fundamentals, and it is referred to as the exchange rate ... -
Essays on the various aspects of portfolio flow in emerging markets
The portfolio investment in emerging markets is two-sided. Increasing financial globalization in emerging market economies has helped to attract a large amount of non-resident portfolio flows, providing local economic ... -
Essays on the volatility of macroeconomic and financial time series
(2006)The essays are comprised of three chapters to investigate the structural changes and reasons of Japanese postwar macroeconomic dynamic, the structural changes and nature of exchange rate realized volatility, and the ... -
Essays on Time Series Econometrics
This dissertation focuses on the construction of statistical tests to differentiate stationary and non-stationary time series. Chapter 1 deals with non-stationarity induced by a broken trend function and considers testing ... -
Essays on Trade Integration, China and Other Developing Economies
In my thesis, I seek to answer the question, how did China's entry to the WTO affect the export performance and therefore the real income of other developing economies?As a part of this research I complete an extensive ... -
Essays on Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Outcomes
This dissertation studies trade liberalization and labor market outcomes. The first two chapters examine the impact of China's trade liberalization on the adjustment of U.S. labor market for skilled and unskilled workers ...