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Black Capitalists in the TransAtlantic Financial Industry

Laryea, Rachel Naa-Du - 2022

This dissertation is a study on the motivations and practices of willful Black participation in capitalism in the contemporary moment. With two sites of inquiry, Wall Street in New York City and Accra, Ghana, this ethnographic study examines how, and to what effect Black Capitalists successfully...

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Why Does Leviathan Innovate? The Law and Economics of Technological Change at State-Owned Electric Utilities

Dibley, Arjuna Charles - 2021

that scholars interested in SOE innovation should not focus on the firms’ ownership status, but instead investigate the …

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Identifying the Failed Parachute Effect: Land Rights, Food Security, and Economic Development in Ethiopia

Judy, Chelsea - 2020

Demand for arable farmland is growing globally. The need for land-based products, such as food, feed, biofuels, and timber, as well as conservation efforts to preserve biodiversity and create carbon sinks, is driving intense competition over finite land resources. A key challenge facing humanity...

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From Adoption to Innovation : State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries

Shim, Younghun - 2023

Should governments subsidize firms' own innovation or adoption of foreign technology? How does the answer change over … after adoption, 2) the adoption fee is lower, and 3) domestic firms more often choose technology adoption over innovation …. Motivated by these findings, we build a two-country growth model with endogenous adoption and innovation decisions. Foreign …

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Essays on Working Conditions, Labor Markets, and Multinational Buyers in Developing Countries

Boudreau, Laura Elizabeth - 2019

Chapter 1: Western stakeholders are increasingly demanding that multinationals sourcing from developing countries be accountable for labor rights and working conditions upstream in their supply chains. In response, many multinationals privately enforce labor standards in these countries, but the...

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Effective Demand for Safer and More Reliable Water Supply in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from Urban Bangladesh and Rural Uganda

Smith, Daniel W. - 2021

safer and more reliable water supply is urgently needed: urban South Asia and rural Africa. Each study involved collecting …

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Essays in Macroeconomics with Imperfect Expectations

Teodoro Guerreiro, Joao Pedro - 2023

The first chapter of this dissertation, coauthored with Martin Eichenbaum and Riccardo Bianchi-Vimercati, addresses the question: how sensitive is the power of fiscal policy at the ZLB to the assumption of rational expectations? We do so through the lens of a standard NK model in which people...

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Flexible Rent Setting and Rental Income

Park, Seongjin - 2023

Using new high-frequency rent data for apartments in Chicago, this paper documents the origin of rent stickiness and its implications for income distribution in the rental housing market. This paper finds that neither Calvo nor Taylor’s models fully explain rent-setting behaviors because...

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Essays on Retail Investor Behavior in Financial Markets

Liang, Shushu - 2023

This dissertation examines the trading behavior of retail investors using large datasets and both causal inference and structural estimation methods. The study has two main objectives: to understand the heterogeneity across different investors and to quantify the price impacts of various trading...

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Bayesian Learning in Financial Markets

Hua, Ye - 2023

The dissertation consists of three chapters, each focusing on a different application of learning in financial markets. The first chapter addresses survivorship bias in the global equity markets. Survivorship bias refers to people’s tendency of focusing on successful individuals in inferring...

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