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  • Essays on information and incentives 
    Xandri Antuña, Juan P. (Juan Pablo) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This thesis studies problems of belief and information formation of agents, and its effect on incentive provision in problems of experimental and mechanism design. Chapter 1 is based on joint work with Arun Chandrasekhar ...
  • Essays on trade, CO₂, and the environment 
    Shapiro, Joseph S (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 institutions in developing economies 
    Wang, Xiao Yu, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The primary goal of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of how institutional structure responds and evolves in equilibrium, particularly in the idiosyncratic and dynamic settings of developing economies. I use ...
  • Essays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance 
    Venables, Sarah Elizabeth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    The first chapter presents a model in which a principal requires an agent to work on multiple tasks, which require varying levels of effort. Initially the appropriate actions are unknown to the principal and so he cannot ...
  • Essays on conflict, cooperation and economic development 
    Ralston, Laura R. (Laura Rosalind) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on topics relating to conflict, social cooperation and development economics. Several studies have identified the impact of adverse economic shocks on civil conflict using ...
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