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Essays In international trade and labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis develops empirical methodologies to investigate the effect of globalization on welfare and inequality both between- and within-countries. The first essay proposes a Roy-like model where workers are heterogeneous ...
Essays on savings, investment, and monetary policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis consists of three chapters on savings, investment, and monetary policy. The first chapter studies optimal monetary policy in an environment where negative nominal interest rates are possible, as demonstrated ...
Essays on the design and targeting of financial products : evidence from field experiments in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
study the design of microfinance contracts and how to target financial products using community information. In Chapter 1, I report on a field experiment in India that assesses (1) whether community members have information ...
Cognitive foundations of strategic behavior : from games to revolutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Game theory is one of the main tools currently used in Economics to model strategic behavior. However, game theory has come under attack because of the strong assumptions it makes on people's behavior. Because of that, ...
Essays on household finance and credit market regulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis consists of three chapters on household finance and regulatory policy in consumer credit markets. The first chapter studies the efficiency and distributional effects of credit card pricing restrictions in the ...
Essays in pharmaceutical economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This thesis consists of three empirical essays in pharmaceutical economics, which explore the role regulation plays in influencing firm behavior. In the first chapter I examine competition in the neglected disease submarket ...
High-dimensional econometrics and model selection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 proposes a new method to solve the many moment problem: in Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), when the number of moment conditions is comparable to or larger than ...
Essays in political economy of media and communication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This thesis consists of three chapters on the role of media and communication in forming political opinions of news consumers and politicians. In the first chapter, I study the causal link between the public's self-selective ...
Technology and labor markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis is divided in three chapters. The first two chapters explore the role of structural changes and skill mismatches in generating unemployment. In the first chapter, I present a model in which technological change ...
Three essays in economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
This thesis consists of three chapters. I, first, study the long-run growth of finance. I construct comprehensive national financial balance sheets, financial accounts and production accounts for twelve advanced economies ...