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Press ‘1’ to speak to a machine: An examination of the psychological factors influencing preference for interaction with artificially intelligent actors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
What psychological factors influence the preference for interaction with a human versus an artificially intelligent actor? How can these factors be used to increase adoption of novel technologies, and what are their broader ...
Essays on the Design of Online Marketplaces and Platforms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that concern the design of online marketplaces and platforms. In Chapter 1, I estimate the impact of increasing the extent to which content recommendations are personalized by ...
Essays on Professionals' Temporal Autonomy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Professionals struggle to control their work time, despite often (1) having relatively greater control over their work tasks, and (2) wanting to control their work time. My dissertation addresses this empirical and theoretical ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
In chapter 1, We study the US housing market using a proprietary dataset covering nearly 90 million transactions over 1998–2018. First, we document the evolution and quantify the contributions of non-primary housing demand ...
Auditors' Role in Fair Value Monitoring: Evidence from Security-Level Data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)
I study the role of the audit firm as monitor of its clients’ fair value (FV) measurements. Specifically, using a setting in the insurance industry where I can identify fair values at the security level, I find that audit ...
Digital Technologies, Customer Experience, and Decisions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate how digital technologies have changed customer experience and their decisions.
The first chapter investigates market participants’ reactions to predictive ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
This dissertation studies various topics in international finance and macrofinance.
In Chapter 1, I examine the costs associated with reversals in international capital flows. I exploit plausibly exogenous variation in ...
Sparse Learning using Discrete Optimization: Scalable Algorithms and Statistical Insights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)
Sparsity is a central concept in interpretable machine learning and high-dimensional statistics. While sparse learning problems can be naturally modeled using discrete optimization, computational challenges have historically ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)
Chapter 1 introduces novel preference formulations which capture aversion to ambiguity about unknown and potentially time-varying volatility. These preferences are compared with Gilboa and Schmeidler's maxmin expected ...
Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning for the Risk-Based Management of Agricultural Supply Chains
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)
Safe, healthy and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to ...