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Motivating effortful behavior is a problem that employers, governments, and nonprofits face globally. However, most studies on motivation are conducted in Western, educat [...]
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This dissertation combines my work on two topics: optimal regulation of screening monopolists (Price Distribution Regulation), and linear optimization models in [...]
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This thesis consists of three papers studying the effect of surgical teams on operating room (OR) efficiency. The overarching motivation of this thesis is to enhance the [...]
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This dissertation explores the effect product reviews have on consumer emotions, judgments, and decisions. Especially with the continued growth of e-commerce, product rev [...]
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This dissertation consists of two essays in financial econometrics. The first essay delves into the investigation of estimators for factor-model-based large covariance (a [...]
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This dissertation studies statistical inference in randomized experiments, extending important covariate-adaptive randomization tools to three commonly used experiment [...]
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This paper examines the shopping labor division and the differences in shopping behaviors between men and women residing in the same household using a novel dataset conta [...]
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This dissertation comprises four essays in financial economics. In the first essay, we conduct inference on volatility with noisy high-frequency data. The second essay pr [...]
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Cities are divided into local governments responsible for local commuting infrastructure that is used by both their residents and outsiders. In this paper, I study how me [...]
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This dissertation presents work on the stochastic modeling and control of service systems, within the broader fields of management science and operations management. The [...]
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Why does parenting look so different across children? While some children are disciplined with time-outs, others face physical punishment. Some children are expected to b [...]
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Do prepayment penalties lock-in borrowers, reducing mobility? Using monthly mortgage performance and borrower panel data, I study mobility before and after the expiration [...]
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The current expected credit losses (CECL) model stipulates that loan loss provisions should be forward-looking. I document that banks increasingly rely on macroeconomic f [...]
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I study whether direct lenders, which have been displacing banks in private equity (PE) buyouts, lend more like banks or arm’s-length investors. Using a novel database fo [...]
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This study investigates three distinct examples of technological innovation during the 19th century United States. I first examine the long-run impacts of a deskilling te [...]
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Developments in machine learning and big data allow firms to fully personalize and target their marketing mix. However, data and privacy regulations, such as those in the [...]
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This dissertation is comprised of three distinct works of research that investigate inconsistencies in people’s judgments and decisions with the goal of deriving insights [...]
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I study the pricing of a novel source of aggregate risk to the insurance sector: shifts in insurers’ loss distribution due to extreme jury verdicts and settlements, widel [...]
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I examine the organization of production in healthcare and its consequences for healthcare quality, patient outcomes, and access to care for patients. Chapter 1 examines [...]
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In macroeconomic forecasting, principal component analysis (PCA) has been the most preva-lent approach to the recovery of factors, which summarize information in a large [...]
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This dissertation consists of two parts that address problems arising frequently in the analysis of big, high-dimensional dependent data. The first part proposes a new ap [...]
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This dissertation, consisting of 2 chapters, explores how institutional investors play an important role in financial markets.
In Chapter 1, I first present a new asset [...]
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A currency is considered risky if it depreciates during downturns. I show that currency risk is caused by foreign capital flows induced by heterogeneous responses of fore [...]
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This dissertation has three chapters. Each chapter of my thesis studies different topics within the field of household finance. My research focuses on household finance t [...]
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This paper studies the taxation of realized capital gains in the decentralized market for private businesses, an asset class with empirically large unrealized capital gai [...]
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