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Essays on identification in macroeconomics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis studies new methods to estimate the effects of interventions at the macroeconomic level using regional variation. Chapter 1 studies the relationship between elasticities at the regional level and elasticities ...
Three essays on consumer finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis consists of three chapters on consumer financial contracts. Particularly, this thesis focuses on the regulation and design of markets for financial contracts, and their impact on household financial health. The ...
Essays on imperfect competition in the labor market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis consists of three chapters on imperfect competition in the labor market. The first chapter (joint with Nikolaj Harmon) explores the relationship between an individual's wages and the quality of her opportunities ...
Essays on markets and information
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis contains three chapters on the interplay between markets and information. In the first chapter, I study how market opportunities influence the information revealed in longterm relationships. To this end, I build ...
Market failures and monetary policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Each chapter of this thesis focuses on the interactions between a particular market failure, such as financial frictions or imperfect competition, and the real effects of monetary policy. The first chapter studies the ...
Essays on the impact of supply-side regulation in US health care markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In this thesis, I take up the question of how government regulations impact the supply side of the US health care market. In Chapter 1, I exploit the Medicare rural floor, a discontinuity in geographic adjustments to ...
Essays on physician innovation and practice style in healthcare markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
This thesis consists of three chapters on technological innovation, diffusion, and practice style among physicians. The first chapter investigates the effect of age on a surgeon's propensity to use new medical procedures. ...
Essays in bargaining and auction theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 studies an infinite-horizon bilateral bargaining model with alternating offers and private correlated values. I characterize frequent-offer limits of common screening ...
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 economic geography and networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis consists of three chapters that analyze how the networks of firms, people, and locations shape socio-economic activities. The first chapter analyzes the role of supplier to buyer matching in the firm-to-firm ...