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Essays on modeling and measurement of consumers' decision strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis consists of three related essays which explore new approaches to modeling and measurement of consumer decision strategies. The focus is on decision strategies that deviate from von Neumann-Morgenstern utility ...
Pricing bundles of products and services in the high-tech industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The High-Tech industry faces tremendous complexity in product design because of the large number of different products that can be offered and the mix of products and services that exists. Information Technology (IT) ...
Maintaining optimal CEO incentives through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
My thesis examines the joint hypotheses that firms set optimal levels for CEO incentives, and that firms and CEOs jointly correct deviations from these optimal levels through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing. I ...
Essays on banking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis consists of two chapters that investigate two important issues in banking of the past decade: the effect of banking consolidation on the borrowers and the regulatory capital requirements for banks. The first ...
Innovating government : migration, development and the state in Morocco and Mexico, 1963-2005
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Mexico and Morocco have some of the longest standing and most advanced policies linking the emigration of their low-skilled workers to their national and sub-national economic development. In my dissertation, I examine the ...
Making the numbers : agency in computer-generated formal representations of sales work
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This research builds on the literature on information technology and organizations to suggest an alternative to the current understanding of the production of computer-generated formal representations of work. This literature ...
Essays in capital markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis consists of three essays in capital markets. The first essay presents a dynamic asset pricing model with heterogeneously informed agents. Unlike previous research, the general case where differential information ...
The organization of research activities in industry and academia : implications for the commercialization of university research
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This dissertation is composed of three essays. In the first essay, I build a model of the choice and timing of entry into commercial activities by an academic research team, and analyze the returns and costs of these ...
Essays on transition challenges for alternative propulsion vehicles and transportation systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Technology transitions require the formation of a self-sustaining market through alignment of consumers' interests, producers' capabilities, infrastructure development, and regulations. In this research I develop a broad ...
Community-based innovation & product development : finding from open source software and consumer sporting goods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Academics and practitioners have long been interested in understanding the sources and causes of innovative activity and the relationship between innovation and industrial change. Existing theory assumes innovative activity ...