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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This paper offers a set of explicit functional relationships that link energy and the economy. Despite the reliance on energy permeating the whole economy, no such complete relationships had been presented before. How ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This dissertation consists of three essays on dictatorships. The first two study the economic impact of power struggles in dictatorships. They focus on one mechanism used by dictators to remain in power, shuffling, where ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis explores three aspects of the coexistence of governments and markets from an optimal policy point of view. In chapter 1, I study how the presence of financial markets shapes the government's ability to redistribute. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis consists of three chapters on optimal tax theory with endogenous wages. Chapter 1 studies optimal linear and nonlinear income taxation when firms do not know workers' abilities, and competitively screen them ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation consists of three papers that explore the links between corporate finance and corporate pension policy. The first chapter exploits the funding rules for defined benefit pension plans in order to identify ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
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(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. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation consists of three chapters on persistence and interactions of policies of different governments in various settings. Chapter 1 studies government policy persistence when firms face capital installation ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Chapter 1 examines how political economy considerations affect the desirability of banking unions. It presents a model in which bank recapitalizations are carried out by rent-seeking policymakers. These policymakers face ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation consists of three essays on the behavior of political elites and their effect on economic development. The first two chapters focus on political dynasties in the Philippines while the third chapter analyzes ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
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