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  • Essays on Information and Asset Prices

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    Description:
    Chapter 1: Despite the rapid growth of passive ownership over the past 30 years, there is no consensus on how or why passive ownership affects stock price informativeness. This paper provides a new answer to this question by examining how passive ownership changes investors' incentives to acquire information. I develop...
    Subject:
    Economics, Finance, and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Sammon, Marco
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_818012 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15554

  • Essays on Firm and Consumer Behavior in Spatially Differentiated Markets

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three essays on spatially differentiated markets. Generally, I explore how firms and consumers behave in such markets using structural modeling, causal inference and machine learning techniques, as well as high-resolution spatial data. In the first chapter, I study the efficiency of firm location configurations in the...
    Keyword:
    spatial competition, stadiums, applied econometrics, industrial organization, spatial spillovers, and food service
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Sedov, Dmitry
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15552 and etdadmin_upload_817827

  • Essays in Nonparametric Econometrics

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    Description:
    This thesis considers identification, estimation, and inference in nonparametric settings. Special attention is given to identification with instrumental variables of small support, and in time series via the ergodic assumption. Chapter 1 considers a nonparametric instrumental regression model in which the regressor and instrument are discretely distributed. Here, we strengthen...
    Keyword:
    Instrumental variables and Econometrics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Loh, Isaac
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_822161 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15599

  • Essays in economic theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation comprises three essays in distinct areas of economic theory. The first chapter is co-authored with Gregorio Curello. We identify a new and pervasive dynamic agency problem: that of incentivising the prompt disclosure of productive information. To study it, we introduce a model in which a technological breakthrough occurs...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Sinander, Carl Martin Ludvig
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15505 and etdadmin_upload_806322

  • Essays on Banking, Trade, and Employment

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    Description:
    This dissertation contains two studies. In Chapter 1 we investigate the relationshipbetween expansionary credit events and firms’ employment decisions. To overcome the endogeneity coming from the supply side of credit we exploit the legal and political framework in Mexico to examine the effects of local governments’ prepayment of loans, a...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Acosta, Roman
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15593 and etdadmin_upload_820097

  • Essays in Macroeconomics with Household Heterogeneity

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    Description:
    This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomics with heterogeneous households. In the first chapter, I document that spousal labor supply substantially mitigates the impact of cyclical labor income risk on married households. Motivated by this evidence, I present a macroeconomic model with incomplete markets in which households are heterogeneous...
    Keyword:
    labor market, general equilibrium, and heterogeneous agents
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Bardoczy, Bence
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_818634 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15564

  • Essays in Economic Theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on topics in economic theory. In Chapter 1, "Subjective Complexity Under Uncertainty", I propose and axiomatize a model of choice under uncertainty in which the size of the partition with respect to which an act is measurable arises endogenously as a measure of subjective...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Valenzuela-Stookey, Quitze
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_813507 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15518

  • Essays in Development Economics

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    Description:
    AbstractThis dissertation consists of three papers examining economic issues in developing countries. The first paper studies how export activity affects prices in domestic consumer markets. Using extensive, spatially disaggregated data from India’s rice markets and exploiting a natural experiment provided by India’s rice export restrictions during 2007-2011, I show that,...
    Subject:
    Agriculture economics and Economics
    Creator:
    Manjeer, Utsav
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15595 and etdadmin_upload_820489

  • Essays in Development Economics

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    Description:
    Economic development is a complex and multi-faceted process. Among its many causes, two are particularly consequential: government and technology. By shaping the landscape of economic incentives, they impact how agents interact, invest, and innovate, which in turn affects the creation of wealth. In this dissertation I explore how this interaction...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Dahis, Ricardo
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_819533 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15580

  • Essays on Financial Intermediation

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    Description:
    This dissertation contains three chapters. In Chapter 1, I study the effects of bank leverage ratio restrictions in a general equilibrium model of the macroeconomy where lenders can anticipate bank runs. This framework allows the analysis of the tradeoffs associated with bank capital requirements - while unlimited leverage allows capital...
    Keyword:
    mortgage, credit supply, haircut, creditor rights, collateral, and repo
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Lewis, Brittany Almquist
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    02/01/2021
    Date Created:
    2020-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15346 and etdadmin_upload_773034