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Essays in political economy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis consists of three chapters on political economy. Each chapter explores the effects of a change to the equilibrium of a given market. In the first chapter, Jon Weigel and I study a randomized controlled trial ...
Essays on inequality, interest rates and macroeconomic policies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis consists of three chapters on inequality, interest rates and macroeconomic policies. The first chapter explores the macroeconomic consequences of the recent rise in permanent income inequality. First, I show ...
Essays on macroeconomics and risk premium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The thesis consists of three essays on how macroeconomic policy can be an important determinant of risk premium and how variations in risk premium may affect macroeconomic policy. Unconventional monetary policy represents ...
Essays on firms in developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis consists of three chapters on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and the impact of government policies on business growth. The first chapter examines firms' incentive to establish a reputation ...
Essays in political economics and information acquisition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis consists of three chapters respectively on optimal contracts to incentivize information acquisition, strategic voting, and conflict of interest. The first chapter, joint work with A. Clark, studies a principal-agent ...
Essays on Banking and Local Credit Markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis consists of three chapters on banking and local credit markets. The first chapter studies the relationship between bank-specific capital and credit access in a new setting: bank branch closings in markets where ...
Essays in political economy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first two chapters explore how different organizational forms, and in particular different hiring and firing practices, affect bureaucracies. In the first chapter, I study how ...
Essays in macro and development economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The essays in this thesis study the implications of weak financial institutions for economic growth, allocation of resources, and economic development. Methodologically, the essays draw on a broad range of theoretical and ...
Essays on financial institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
In the first chapter, I study how banks lend or borrow liquidity in the interbank market and what I can learn about the macro-economy from the interbank market. From a unique database of interbank loan transactions in ...
Essays on the economics of urban transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis includes three papers exploring urban traffic congestion and the interplay between urban commuting and economic activity in developing countries. The first paper studies the impact of peak-hour road congestion ...