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  • Market imperfections and market-based policy instruments 
    Eun, Dong Jae (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    The first chapter discusses procurement auction mechanisms under the political constraint that the contractor is in effect protected from ex-post loss. Many construction procurers who use first price auctions eliminate ...
  • Essays in pharmaceutical economics 
    Murphy, Stephen J. (Stephen James) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    This thesis consists of three empirical essays in pharmaceutical economics, which explore the role regulation plays in influencing firm behavior. In the first chapter I examine competition in the neglected disease submarket ...
  • Essays on financial, transportation and savings investment technologies 
    Yokossi, Tite (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    This thesis investigates the impact and adoption of three types of technologies mobile money, a leading financial technology in Kenya, the colonial railway, an important transportation technology in Nigeria, and two prevalent ...
  • Private information and price regulation In the US credit card market 
    Nelson, Scott Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Lenders typically learn new information about their borrowers over time but can be restricted from repricing debt in response to this information. I study a leading example of such re-pricing restrictions, the 2009 Credit ...
  • Essays in applied microeconomics and networks 
    Wernerfelt, Nils Christian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
    Chapter 1 focuses on the recent dramatic shift in attitudes toward LGBT individuals in the U.S. and the accompanying rise in the number of Americans who have openly come out. We develop a model of stigma with Schelling-style ...
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