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Essays on job search and retraining
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This thesis comprises three essays in empirical labor economics. Broadly, the essays provide evidence on the existence and the effects of information barriers in situations of job search and retraining. Chapter 1 (coauthored ... -
Essays on job search, unemployment, and regulatory compliance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This dissertation is composed of four essays, each studying limits to the means that are famously known to be effective. In the first essay, I investigate the effect of using social ties on the quality of opportunities ... -
Essays on knowledge sharing and an opt-in evaluation process among investment professionals v/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This dissertation contributes to our understanding of recently popularized opt-in evaluation processes. These processes have been democratized such that ratings are provided no longer solely by experts, but commonly by any ... -
Essays on labor market dynamics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)This thesis consists of three chapters on labor market dynamics. In the first chapter, I show empirically that the unequal incidence of recessions is a core channel through which aggregate shocks are amplified. I show that ... -
Essays on labor market inequality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis consists of three chapters on aspects of labor market inequality. In chapter 1, I estimate the dynamic effects of federal affirmative action regulation, exploiting variation in the timing of regulation and ... -
Essays on Labor Market Institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)This thesis includes three papers about the impacts of different labor market institutions. In the first chapter (joint with Sean Wang), we study the effect of private-sector unionization on establishment employment and ... -
Essays on learning and strategy in research and development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This dissertation investigates how research organizations learn from and adapt to new knowledge. In particular, I examine how news about scandals, stigmas and failures influences the direction of research and development ... -
Essays on liquidity and information
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation studies the interaction of liquidity and incomplete or asymmetric information. In Chapter 1, I study a dynamic economy with illiquidity due to adverse selection in financial markets. Investment is undertaken ... -
Essays on liquidity in macroeconomics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis includes four essays on the macroeconomic effects of financial market imperfections. The first essay studies the incentives for banks that participate in an interbank market to keep a sufficient level of reserves. ... -
Essays on local labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter explores the effect of Wal-Mart expansion on local retail employment. The phenomenal expansion of Wal-Mart provides a clean case for studying the labor-market ... -
Essays on Long-Term Relationships and Networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)This thesis comprises three chapters on long-term relationships and networks. The first and second chapters study long-term relationships between shippers and carriers in the US truckload freight industry. The third ... -
Essays on macroeconomic performance under alternative exchange rate regimes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Since Friedman (1953) an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes relative to fixed regimes is their ability to better insulate the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-1996) ... -
Essays on macroeconomic risks and stock prices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In this thesis, I study the relationship between macroeconomic risks and asset prices. In the first chapter, I establish that inflation risk is priced in the cross-section of stock returns: stocks that have low returns ... -
Essays on macroeconomic volatility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis consists of three empirical essays on different aspects of macroeconomic volatility. The first essay provides evidence of a causal and economically important relation between financial development and macroeconomic ... -
Essays on Macroeconomics and Banking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)This thesis contains three papers related to measures for improving the stability of the banking system, including regulations and public ownership. The first chapter shows using a difference-in-differences strategy ... -
Essays on macroeconomics and contract theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis studies how contracting frictions affect the outcomes that the public sector or individual agents can achieve. The focus is on situations where the government or the agent lacks commitment on its future actions. ... -
Essays on Macroeconomics and International Trade
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I develop a new theory of wage rigidity and unemployment fluctuations. The starting point of my analysis is a generalized version of Burdett and Mortensen’s (1998) ... -
Essays on macroeconomics and international trade
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis focuses on the study of different aspects of income inequality across and within countries. In the first chapter, I study how the optimal provision of human capital is distorted in the presence of borrowing ... -
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 malpractice law and physician behavior
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation contributes to an understanding of the manner in which various dimensions of malpractice law shape physician behavior and how this behavior, in turn, impacts health outcomes. In Chapter 1, I explore the ...
