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This thesis presents two empirical essays, which examine the organization of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry and a third essay that examines the effects of corporate downsizing on the growing number ...

This thesis consists of three chapters in empirical macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I study downward wage rigidity. Downward wage rigidity is central to many explanations of unemployment fluctuations. In benchmark ...

This thesis studies the causal impacts of social insurance program design on household behavior and program-relevant outcomes. Each paper considers a major design feature of a large social insurance program - work requirements, ...

This thesis comprises three essays in empirical labor economics. Broadly, the essays provide evidence on the existence and the effects of information barriers in situations of job search and retraining. Chapter 1 (coauthored ...

This dissertation contains three essays on the term structure of equity returns. In the first chapter I document substantial variation in the cross-section of the term premium of US stocks between 1996 and 2019. I introduce ...

This thesis consists of three essays on diverse topics but shared emphasis on statistical models with theory and empirics. The first and third essay examines the role of cognitive limitations in understanding biases in ...

First two chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the ...

This thesis contains two chapters on the Electricity Markets and a chapter on Matching Markets. In the first chapter, I study how an energy storage affects the wholesale electricity market. The transition to a low-carbon ...

This thesis consists of three separate papers concerning the use of communication channels and intermediaries in organizations. A noisy-signalling model of strategic communication is introduced in the first chapter, and ...

This thesis is a collection of three chapters that investigate burgeoning empirical issues in industrial organization. In the first chapter, I study platform fee policy with a specific focus on two-sided online marketplaces. ...