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  • Essays in Economic History and Political Economy

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    Description:
    Chapter 1 proposes and tests a model where a country aligns with a foreign power to obtain its support and reduce its geopolitical risks, which also depend on the country's exposure to the other foreign powers. We show that the country's alignment with a given foreign power is increasing in...
    Keyword:
    Interstate Alignment, Internal Conflicts, Geopolitics, Political Favoritism, and Social Status
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Porcellacchia, Michael Franco
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_902835 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16076

  • Essays on Optimal Taxation

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    Description:
    This thesis revisits classic optimal tax theory, recognizing that most people live in multi-person households. We derive optimal tax schedules for married agents, seriously taking the distinction between interpersonal and interhousehold inequality. After showing how individual-oriented utilitarianism typically leads to a misalignment between the households’ and the government’s objectives, which...
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Alves, Cassiano Breno Machado
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16087 and etdadmin_upload_903101

  • Essays in Real Estate Finance

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters that each study the interaction between government policy and real estate markets. All three chapters are connected by a broad interest in renters, landlords, and rental markets. Chapter 1 investigates the relationship between place-based policies and real estate and rental markets empirically by studying...
    Keyword:
    Rental Markets, Real Estate, and Finance
    Subject:
    Economics and Finance
    Creator:
    Hair, Christopher
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_902849 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16077

  • Essays on Macroeconomic Aspects of Economic Development

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    Description:
    The three essays composing this dissertation are unified by their focus on the macroeconomic aspects of economic development. In Chapter one titled "Land Property Rights, Financial Frictions, and Resource Allocation in Developing Countries'', I study the effects of weak land property rights and limited access to finance on aggregate productivity...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Manysheva, Kristina
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_899100 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16021

  • Essays on Recursive Preferences

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    Description:
    Models of recursive preferences are commonly associated with a preference for early resolution of uncertainty, often regarded as an important economic channel in applications. This dissertation provides a different understanding of recursive preferences based on attitudes toward correlation, and in particular aversion to intertemporally correlated risks. Part 1 provides a...
    Keyword:
    Risk, Ambiguity, Robustness, Uncertainty, and Prior selection
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Stanca, Lorenzo Maria
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15985 and etdadmin_upload_891458

  • Essays on Incentives and Organizations

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    Description:
    Economic activity is mostly performed by groups of agents that form organizations and collectives. In this dissertation I explore the effects of two frictions, namely conflicting preferences and contracting with externalities, on the characteristics of agents that jointly constitute a given organization or collective. First, in many professional environments workers...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    ESPITIA DE LA HOZ, Andres
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16055 and etdadmin_upload_901777

  • Essays on Contract Theory

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    Description:
    This dissertation consists of three chapters on contract theory. In Chapter 1, ``Agency in Hierarchies: Middle Managers and Performance Evaluations'', I study the optimal joint design of incentives and performance rating scales in a principal-manager-worker hierarchy. The principal wants to motivate the manager and the worker to exert unobservable effort....
    Subject:
    Economics and Economic theory
    Creator:
    Brasiliense de Castro Pires, Henrique
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/22/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16007 and etdadmin_upload_897826

  • Essays on Economic Design

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    Description:
    I examine economic design issues in the realm of dynamic organ allocation for transplantation and behavioral market design/contract theory. The second and third chapters focus on two issues in the design of the U.S. deceased-donor organ allocation system, which represents the majority of transplants performed in the U.S. In contrast...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Munoz-Rodriguez, Edwin
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    10/06/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_841815 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15703

  • Collective Household Models with Limited Commitment

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    Description:
    In my dissertation I explore several applications of collective household models with limited commitment to study the behavior of singles and couples in the modern US marriage markets in presence of endogenous risk of divorce. In the first chapter, I show that the model is capable of rationalizing the patterns...
    Keyword:
    household behavior, family economics, marriage and divorce, and macroeconomics
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Kozlov, Egor
    Owner:
    Scholarly Digital Publishing
    Language:
    en
    Date Uploaded:
    06/28/2021
    Date Created:
    2021-01-01
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
    Alternate Identifier:
    etdadmin_upload_820517 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15596

  • Essays in Macroeconomics and Firm Dynamics

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    Description:
    This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter one studies changes in market concentration and productivity growth in the United States from the 1990s to the 2010s. Chapter two measures the impact of a banking crisis, the British Panic of 1825, on non-financial firms. Chapter three examines how women's employment...
    Subject:
    Economics
    Creator:
    Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane
    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:15575 and etdadmin_upload_819365