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  • Essays on financial economics 
    Vargas Mendoza, Alberto (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis consists of three independent essays on Financial Economics. In chapter one I investigate the possible mispricing of European-style options in the Mexican Stock Exchange. The source of this problem is that when ...
  • Empirical essays on firm behavior in India 
    Ryan, Nicholas (Nicholas James) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    In this thesis, I study the behavior of industrial firms in India in the electricity market and with respect to locational choice and environmental regulation. In the first chapter, I study the competitive effects of ...
  • Essays on innovation, productivity, and talent allocation 
    Shu, Pian (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis contains three essays on innovation, productivity, and talent allocation. The first essay explores a novel channel through which short-term economic fluctuations affect the long-term innovative output of the ...
  • Physician behavior and technology diffusion in health care 
    Molitor, David Paul (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Chapter 1 examines geographic variations in physician practice styles by exploring the role of physician-specific factors such as preferences and learned behavior versus environment-level factors such as hospital capacity. ...
  • Essays on household finance 
    Ferman, Bruno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This dissertation consists of three essays. The first chapter studies whether credit demand is sensitive to interest rates, to the prominence of interest rate disclosure, and to nudges. Consumer credit regulations usually ...
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