Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Essays on the role of education in growth and development
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Essays on the role of location in strategy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation consists of three essays that examine the role of location in fundamental issues in strategy and international management. The first essay estimates the locus of profitability in four OECD countries and ... -
Essays on the Role of Metrics in Innovation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)This dissertation consists of three essays studying the role of metrics in the process of innovation. Scientific and technical metrics are trusted as objective and consistent arbiters of knowledge, and as a result, are ... -
Essays on the role of trade and country risk in emerging markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Essays on the state of taxation of the life insurance industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Essays on the structural estimation and analysis of corporate and industrial markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The three chapters which comprise my thesis are a collection of essays on the analysis of the corporate governance and airline markets and of the federal appellate structure. In Chapter 1, I use a discrete choice framework ... -
Essays on the taxation and regulation of financial markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis is a collection of three essays analyzing the economic effects of taxation, market structure, and the regulatory environment on financial markets, focusing in particular on financial intermediaries such as banks ... -
Essays on the teacher labor market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis presents three empirical essays on the teacher labor market. Chapter one exploits the exogenous variation in teacher pay arising from state-mandated pay increases to identify the causal effect of teacher pay ... -
Essays on the term structure of equity returns
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This dissertation contains three essays on the term structure of equity returns. In the first chapter I document substantial variation in the cross-section of the term premium of US stocks between 1996 and 2019. I introduce ... -
Essays on the theory of financial innovation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
Essays on the theory of flexible exchange rates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Essays on the theory of production and technical progress.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966) -
Essays on the theory of rational expectations equilibrium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982) -
Essays on the very invisible college : global science and African participation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Despite globalization, innovative activities remain concentrated in a handful of high-income countries. Leveraging knowledge and resources in these locations through ties in the global network presents opportunities for ... -
Essays on the youth and low-skilled labor market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation consists of three chapters on the youth and low-skilled labor markets. In Chapter 1, I show that teen employment is significantly more responsive than adult employment to immigration, and that growth in ... -
Essays on trade and capital flows in developing countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis is a collection of essays on the effects of trade and capital flows in developing countries. Chapter 1 starts with the observation that institutions - contract enforcement, property rights, investor protection, ... -
Essays on trade, CO₂, and the environment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The first chapter of this thesis uses a general equilibrium model of trade and the environment to investigate two questions. First, how do the gains from trade compare against the environmental costs of trade? Trade can ... -
Essays on trades and security prices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate the complex relation between security prices and trades of market participants. In the first chapter, I study the evolution of stock prices after trades with different ... -
Essays on transition challenges for alternative propulsion vehicles and transportation systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Technology transitions require the formation of a self-sustaining market through alignment of consumers' interests, producers' capabilities, infrastructure development, and regulations. In this research I develop a broad ... -
Essays on U.S. agricultural policy : subsidies, crop insurance, and environmental auctions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis investigates the unintended consequences of government policy, specifically policy meant to benefit agricultural producers. The first chapter asks how agricultural subsidies affect farmland rental rates. Chapter ...
