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Essays on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters on uninsured income risk, lumpy investment and aggregate demand. The first chapter analyzes the non-linear response of durable spending to income shocks. Empirically, the average ...
Essays on the empowerment and employment of women in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three papers on the empowerment and employment of women in India. India's female labor force participation rate is among the lowest in the world. Research suggests many women in India want to work, ...
Essays on the political economy of development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters which address different questions about the political economy of development. In the first chapter, Natala Garbiras-Díaz and I study whether crowdsourcing technologies aimed at ...
Essays on the law and economics of public institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three chapters on the legal and economic organization of large-scale public institutions. Each chapter uses the tools of applied microeconomics in order to explore how the legal and organizational ...
Essays in intertemporal economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
Noisy-signalling models of organizational decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis consists of three separate papers concerning the use of communication channels and intermediaries in organizations. A noisy-signalling model of strategic communication is introduced in the first chapter, and ...
Essays in industrial organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis is a collection of three chapters that investigate burgeoning empirical issues in industrial organization. In the first chapter, I study platform fee policy with a specific focus on two-sided online marketplaces. ...
Essays in industrial organization and urban economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
First two chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the ...
Essays on econometrics and economic theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter extends the recent result of Athey and Wager on the asymptotic normality of random forest estimators to a multivariate setting; in particular, we examine stability ...
The instability of the prewar economy reconsidered : a critical examination of historical macroeconomic data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)