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    • Essays on Bayesian Econometrics 

      Kim, Jaeho (2014-04-30)
      This dissertation explores important macroeconomics issues based on Bayesian Econometrics tools developed. One goal of the first chapter of the dissertation is to develop an efficient Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm ...
    • Essays on Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Commercial Fishery – Management Policies and Pricing Mechanism 

      Wang, Yun-Ling Jocelyn
      This dissertation consists of three manuscripts studying management policies and ex-vessel pricing mechanism observed in the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run – Bristol Bay. For the first manuscript, we develop a ...
    • Essays on business cycles and endogenous growth 

      Brizhatyuk, Dmitry
      This dissertation explores the nexus between asset and credit market cycles, short-run fluctuations, and growth. What factors contribute to slow and incomplete recoveries from major crises? Why are some economies more prone ...
    • Essays on China’s Health Care and Skill Upgrading Decisions 

      Zhuang, Chen
      In this dissertation, I explore three seemingly disparate but inter-connected questions related to China’s strategies for human capital maintenance and accumulation. Hereinafter, a brief outline of each of the three chapters ...
    • Essays on Contract Theory 

      Su, Alice Peng-Ju
      This dissertation is primarily on the contractual design to account for various source of information asymmetry in a principal-agent(s) relationship. In the first chapter, I study the optimal provision of team incentives ...
    • Essays on Contract Theory and Mechanism Design 

      Rodivilov, Alexander
      My dissertation investigates optimal contracts for experimentation and a matching problem for the runway slot allocation. The first chapter of my dissertation examines the role of monitoring in experimentation where agents ...
    • Essays on Corruption and Enforcement 

      Henke, Alexander Robert
      This dissertation examines the role and limits of enforcement in environments where the enforcing party faces issues related to corruption and misreporting. In the first chapter, we construct a principal – agent – auditor ...
    • Essays on Currency Risks and Returns 

      Ren, Jingyi
      Chapter 1 proposes using foreign exchange rate currency options with different strike prices and maturities to capture both currency risks and expectations, for helping understand currency return dynamics. We show that ...
    • Essays on Development Economics 

      Chowdhury, Iffat Ara
      This dissertation is a collection of essays that study women’s labor market decisions and outcomes in developing countries. Chapter 1 studies how fear of sexual assault limits women’s labor supply. Numerous criminology ...
    • Essays on Development Economics 

      Liu, Zhe
      This dissertation consists of three chapters that study labor market frictions, gender norms, and school management practices in developing countries. In the first chapter, I study how expansion of fast Internet availability ...
    • Essays on Dynamic Behavior of Harvesters in Fisheries 

      Abe, Keita
      Dynamics is a key aspect of analyses on renewable natural resources, as it replenishes over time. While long-run dynamic aspect of harvester behavior has been traditionally explored, microeconomic short-run harvester ...
    • Essays on Dynamic Consumers' Brand Choice 

      BAK, NAHYEON
      This dissertation is a collection of essays on consumer's state dependent choice. In many consumers packaged goods markets, consumer's brand choice is highly persistent because of state dependence where past choice directly ...
    • Essays on Dynamic Contracting with Present Bias 

      Shen, Tongyuan
      This dissertation studies dynamic contracting models with present bias. The present bias is commonly modeled in two ways, dual-self present bias and hyperbolic discounting present bias. Dual-self present bias assumes that ...
    • Essays on Dynamic Markets 

      Ho, Ken C.
      This dissertation studies three markets. In chapter 1, we study a dynamic two-sided many-to-one matching model. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a dynamically stable matching and show that some but ...
    • Essays on Economic Impacts of Coral Bleaching: Evidence from Indonesia 

      Chaijaroen, Pasita
      This dissertation explores the economic effects of the 1998 massive coral bleaching on Indonesian households. The first chapter explores the effects on income and labor-related outcomes among fishery households. Results ...
    • Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Time Series Forecasting 

      Liu, Yuming
      In this dissertation, I aim to forecast U.S. stock returns via state-space and probabilistic deep-learning models. In the first chapter, I propose new state-space models with stock and accounting variables to estimate the ...
    • Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization 

      Park, Eunmi
      This dissertation consists of two essays in the field of empirical industrial organization. In the essays, I analyze the economic policies of a government's treasury department, and firms’ strategies in the franchise ...
    • Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics 

      Huang, YuFan (2013-11-14)
      The nonlinear time series analysis has been applied widely in many empirical macroeconomic studies and deepened our understanding of the economy. One of the traditional issues of most importance is how to describe the ...
    • Essays on Environmental and Health Economics 

      Zhai, Muxin
      This dissertation examines the linkages between public policy, environment and human health. The first chapter evaluates the environmental impact of the world’s largest Low Emission Zone (LEZ) in London. The second chapter ...
    • Essays on exchange rate dynamics and currency crises in Asia 

      Saxena, Sweta Chaman (2000)
      This dissertation studies theoretical models of causes of and arguments about remedies for currency crises, and empirically examines movements in exchange rates and episodes of crises. In the first chapter, various theoretical ...