Decision makers may experience both uncertainty and time-inconsistency in their preferences - when they choose over different possible menus of options to choose from in …
The dissertation looks at comparative development through nation-building, and the origin and consequences of conflicts. It consists of three separate chapters. Chapter 1 with Guillaum …
This dissertation reveals the importance of deep, historically-rooted determinants of comparative economic development. Chapter 1 advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that migratory distance from …
This dissertation consist of three chapters devoted to topics in Demography and Economic Inequality. The first chapter examines the impact of demographic change on household …
This dissertation studies dynamic games with constrained planners. In many settings, it is the case that a social planner or a principal wants to achieve …
Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of migration on long-run economic development. In particular, I study the European migration to Argentina in the late nineteenth century. …
Social capital is widely studied as determinants of economic growth and development. This dissertation examines the role of family clan heterogeneity and ideological divisions in …
In economic theory, it is imperative to understand and model how individuals make decisions, how these decisions interact to form group decisions and how we …
This dissertation studies determinants of cooperation in social dilemma experiments. To study the effects of time preferences and information about others' pro-social behavior on cooperation, …
This dissertation examines the modeling of latent variables in economics in a variety of settings. The first two chapters contribute to the growing body of …
This dissertation tackles econometric problems in finance in the age of Big Data. The three chapters propose various techniques to overcome some issues caused by …
Private firms are vital in lifting millions of individuals in developing countries out of poverty. Yet, relative to their advanced economies counterparts, private firms in …
This dissertation studies the geographical, technological, and cultural determinants of comparative economic development. The first chapter constructs new measures of distance and transportation costs for …
Chapter 1 analyzes how market forces in the retail market for pharmaceuticals affect utilization of health care. Specifically, I study the impact of Walmart’s $4 …
This dissertation explores different topics on health economics. The first chapter quantifies the supply response of primary care physicians to a reimbursement bonus, the Physician …
Changing expectations of future house price growth are thought to play an important role in housing boom and bust cycles, but investigating such hypotheses is …
This dissertation is composed of three chapters. Chapter 1 presents a theory of indirect inference when the simulator depends on the data. The dependence arises …
This dissertation explores topics in the fields of industrial organization and public economics. The first chapter investigates the role of pre-purchase information in the market …
This dissertation explores the relationship between inflation and economic activity through the lens of the Phillips curve. The Phillips curve is the backbone of nominal …
This dissertation consists of two essays investigating localized knowledge spillovers and a third essay studying the effect of tuition introduction on university enrollment. The first …