• Essays on Frictions and Economic Fluctuations 

  Yu, Hsuan (2019)

  I study how information frictions, in the forms of limited information capacity or asymmetric information, affects the firm's production and physical capital accumulation decisions, and how it can help a dynamic general ...

• Essays on Firm Financing, Investment, and Growth 

  Penciakova, Veronika (2019)

  This dissertation studies the relationship between firm financing, investment, and growth. Chapter 1 makes use of a unique dataset that combines ownership data, Census Bureau data, and patenting data to study whether firms ...

• HEALTHCARE PROVIDER AND LOCAL ECONOMY RESPONSES TO PRO-EMPLOYMENT POLICIES 

  Hegland, Thomas Allen (2019)

  Understanding the responses of businesses and local economies to pro-employment policies is of critical economic and public policy interest. Better understanding of these policies not only can improve our ability to achieve ...

• Essay on Contract Structure in Principal-Agent Problems with Behavioral Models 

  Lin, Hong (2018)

  Designing employment contracts in a principal-agent relationship is a key problem in the modern firm theory. This dissertation investigates this problem from three different angles, (1) the employment contracts in the labor ...

• ESSAYS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS 

  Chadd, Ian (2019)

  Chapter 1: In many settings, it is natural to think of limited consideration exhibiting spillovers: attention paid to a particular alternative may “spill over” to another alternative based on shared characteristics, ...

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