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Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The essays in this thesis study issues in finance affecting large corporations, developing economies, and households. The common theme that connects these essays is a focus on how financial institutions, frictions, and ... -
Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)In Chapter 1, I investigate trading volume before scheduled and unscheduled corporate announcements to explore how traders respond to private information. I show that cumulative trading volume decreases by more than 15% ... -
Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This dissertation consists of three essays in financial economics, with a focus on household financial decisions and their implications for asset pricing and macroeconomic dynamics. In Chapter 1, I use data on the portfolio ... -
Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)The essays in this thesis study the impacts of regulation designed to curtail the accumulation of counterparty credit risk exposure at large banks on intermediation in over-the-counter derivatives markets. In Chapter 1 I ... -
Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This dissertation studies various facets of corporate governance across three chapters. Chapter 1 examines the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), shareholder value, and competition by applying a ... -
Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This dissertation consist of three essays. In the first essay, I examine optimal dynamic contracting between risk-averse investors and firm insiders in a dynamic general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms. The ... -
Essays in financial economics
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Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis consists of three essays in corporate finance and capital markets. The first chapter estimates the effect of competition from low-cost index funds on fees in the money management industry. A difference-in-differences ... -
Essays in Financial Economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)In Chapter 1, joint work with Bledi Taski, we pose the question: how do workers value retirement benefits relative to wages and what impact do these benefits have on firm hiring? We find that dollars paid in employer ... -
Essays in financial economics : terror, consumption, and investment, currency options and liquidity premium, and purchasing power parity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis is composed of three chapters, each includes one paper. The first chapter includes a paper that analyses the impact of terror on consumption and investment. This paper provides evidence on how consumers and ... -
Essays in financial economics/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis examines three questions in Corporate Finance. The first chapter investigates the effect of institutional ownership on the governance dynamics and behavior of firms. I exploit the exogenous change in equity ... -
Essays in financial engineering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis consists of three essays that apply techniques of operations research to problems in financial engineering. In particular, we study problems in portfolio optimization and options pricing. The first essay is ... -
Essays in financial innovation and development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)In this thesis, I use rich individual- and household-level data to explore the impact of different forms of financial innovation on development outcomes in Africa. Chapters 1 and 2 utilize data from a digital lender that ... -
Essays in financial regulation and corporate law
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In the first essay, we investigate which provisions, among a set of twenty-four governance provisions followed by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), are correlated with firm value and stockholder returns. ... -
Essays in health and development economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis is a compilation of three empirical studies exploring significant but underexamined health and development challenges of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in South Asia. Chapter One investigates the effects ... -
Essays in Health Economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)This thesis consists of three chapters on various health economics topics. The first chapter investigates how physicians respond to Medicare reimbursement rate changes. The Affordable Care Act increased reimbursements ... -
Essays in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Healthcare expenditures account for roughly 20 percent of the US economy, and this number is likely to remain high in the near future as baby boomers age into Medicare. Yet, in spite of high healthcare spending, quality ... -
Essays in health economics and productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The first chapter studies how incentives drive adoption by looking at a technology that generates revenue for hospitals: the practice of submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a 2008 reform, hospitals were ... -
Essays in incomplete markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis studies the macroeconomics of incomplete markets. Chapter 1 studies the effects of capital taxation in a dynamic heterogeneous-agent economy with uninsurable entrepreneurial risk. Unlike either the complete-markets ... -
Essays in industrial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This dissertation consists of three chapters in Industrial Economics. Chapter 1 is the product of joint work with Filippo Balestrieri. In chapter 1 we examine the use of lotteries among horizontal differentiated goods as ...
