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Doctoral Dissertations in Economics

One-Hundred-Fifteenth Annual List


The list below specifies doctoral degrees conferred by U.S. and Canadian universities during
academic year July 2017 to June 2018. Lists of degree recipients and subject classifications are provided
by the university. Note: Dissertations without classifications may be found under “Y Miscellaneous
Categories.”

A  General Economics and Teaching Cheng, Mingmian , Ph.D. Rutgers University 2018.
Essays on Forecasting and Hypothesis Testing with
Ahlstrom, Laura , Ph.D. University of Delaware High-Frequency Financial Data
2018. Where Are the Women? The Gender Gap in Choi, Jaerim, Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Undergraduate Economics and Finance Degree 2018. Two Sided Matching in International Markets
Attainment Cisse, Jennifer
, Ph.D. Cornell University 2017.
Aldaghir, Mohammed Ibrahim , Ph.D. Middle Development Resilience Estimation: Theory and
Tennessee State University 2017. Class Scheduling and Applications
Student Performance in Economics Principles Fan, Rui, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018. Three Essays
in Econometrics
B  History of Economic Thought, Fan, Xinyu, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches 2018. Essays of Game Theory and Its Applications in
Political Economy
Hernandez Chavez, Monica, Ph.D. New School for Feng, Yue, Ph.D. University of Kansas 2017. Three Essays
Social Research 2017. Essays on the Political Economy on Extensive-Form Games and Strategic Complements
of Cooperation and Coordination Forneron, Jean-Jacques, Ph.D. Columbia University
Matson, Erik W., Ph.D. George Mason University 2017. 2018. Essays on Simulation-Based Estimation
Hume and Smith on Reason, Political Economy, and Freyaldenhoven, Simon , Ph.D. Brown University
the Spirit of Philosophy 2018. Essays on Factor Models and Latent Variables in
Economics
C  Mathematical and Quantitative Gafarov, Bulat , Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
2017. Essays on Partially Identified Models
Methods
Gao, Wenzeng , Ph.D. Texas A&M University 2018.
Ahn, So Yoon , Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays on Microeconometrics with Applications to
Matching in Marriage Market and Labor Market Social Network

Auerbach, Eric James, Ph.D. University of California, Govindan, Pavitra , Ph.D. Brown University 2018.
Studying the Effect of Formal Rules on Behavior
Berkeley 2017. Semiparametric and Nonparametric
and Social Norms Using Lab and Lab-in-the-Field
Methods for Network Data
Experiments
Auerbach, Shane, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2018.
Gu, Zhutong, Ph.D. Rutgers University 2017. Essays in
Essays in Microeconomics Nonparametric Structural Econometrics: Theory and
Bespalova, Olga, Ph.D. George Washington University Applications
2018. Essays on Forecast Evaluation in Macroeconomics He, Yang , Ph.D. Iowa State University 2018. Three
and International Finance Essays on Regression Discontinuity Design and Partial
Borusyak, Kirill, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018. Identification
Essays on International Economics and Applied Ho, Ken, Ph.D. University of Washington 2018. Essays on
Econometrics Dynamic Markets
Campillo-Garcia, Jose , Ph.D. University of North Huang, Ta-Cheng, Ph.D. Texas A&M University
Carolina 2018. Three Papers on Weak Identification 2018. Nonparametric Estimation and Inference in
Robust Bootstrap Inference Econometrics

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Hwu, Shih-Tang, Ph.D. University of Washington 2018. Spiess, Jann, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018. Essays in
Essays on Nonparametric and Dynamic Time-Series Semiparametric Econometrics
Econometrics Su, Jiun-Hua, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Isogai, Shigeki, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2018. Essays on Structural Microeconometrics
2017. Essays on Dynamic Games and Forward Induction Toth, Peter, Ph.D. University of Texas 2018. Essays in
Jeong, Jinyong, Ph.D. Boston College 2018. Essays in Econometrics
Matching Theory Vazquez-Bare, Gonzalo, Ph.D. University of Michigan
Kaji, Tetsuya, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of 2018. Analysis of Spillover Effects in Randomized
Technology 2018. Essays on Asymptotic Methods in Experiments
Econometrics Walker, Michael Wade , Ph.D. University of
Kara, Omer , Ph.D. North Carolina State University California, Berkeley 2017. Essays on Field Experiments
2018. Three Essays in Applied Spatial and Time Series in Development Economics
Econometrics Warren, Jacob, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2017.
Korolev, Ivan, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays Essays in Nonlinear Econometrics
in Econometrics Wills, Jeremiah, Ph.D. University of Mississippi 2018.
Lee, Sungwon, Ph.D. University of Texas 2018. Essays Demands and Offers in Ultimatum Games
on Semi-/Non-parametric Methods in Econometrics Wu, Shang, Ph.D. University of Delaware 2018. Essays
Lewis, Daniel, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018. Essays on Experiments and Agent-Based Modeling
in Time Series Econometrics Wu, Xingye, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays on
Mai, Ziyi, Ph.D. North Carolina State University 2018. Microeconomic Theory
Essays on Bayesian Inference with Applications to Xiong, Weiqi, Ph.D. Rutgers University 2018. Essays
Open Economy Macroeconomics in Big Data and Forecasting Methods in Financial
Marcoux, Matheiu, Ph.D. University of Toronto 2017. Econometrics
Identification, Estimation and Inference in Empirical Xu, Hao, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside 2018.
Games Causal Inference Using Boosting in IV Regression
Models
Moon, Catherine, Ph.D. Duke University 2018. Essays
on the Promotion of Game-Theoretic Cooperation Xue, Yuan , Ph.D. Duke University 2018. Essays on
Financial Econometrics
Ng, Kara, Ph.D. University of Washington 2018. Essays
on Financial Forecasting Yang, Yimin, Ph.D. Michigan State University 2018.
Three Essays on Econometrics
Pacas, Jose , Ph.D. University of Minnesota 2017.
Innovative Methods for Using Census Data to Study Yoon, Jangsu, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2018. Essays
Poverty, Labor Markets, and Policy on Econometric Models for Games and Censored Data
Pei, Di, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zhou, Xiaoyu, Ph.D. Louisiana State University 2018.
2018. Essays on Dynamic Games and Reputations Essays on Estimation for Nonlinear Spatial Models
Schlossberg, Jessica , Ph.D. Rutgers University Zuo, Bing, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018. Essays on
2018. Essays on High Frequency Data, Jumps, and Misspecified Models
Forecasting
Seo, Won-Ki , Ph.D. University of California, San D Microeconomics
Diego 2018. Representation Theory for Cointegrated
Functional Time Series Adams, Nathan, Ph.D. University of Oregon 2018. Essays
Sorensen, Jesper Riis-Vestergaard , Ph.D. in Risk Taking, Belief Formation, and Self-Deception
University of California, Los Angeles 2018. Essays on Akuffo, Akua Sakyiabea , Ph.D. Purdue University
Nonparametric and High-Dimensional Econometrics 2017. Fish Consumption and Accessibility and the
Solat, Karo, Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute Implications for Household Nutrition and Food
and State University 2018. Generalized Principal Security in Ghana and Tanzania
Component Analysis Amano Patino, Noriko, Ph.D. Yale University 2018.
Song, Wei, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2017. Essays Essays on Inequality
on Discrete Choice Models Ando, Sakai, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays on
Song, Wenxing, Ph.D. Washington State University 2017. Misallocation and Firm Regulations
Three Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization and Andrew McClellan, Andrew , Ph.D. New York
Time Series Forecasting University 2018. Essays in Microeconomics
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Aquino Chavez, Juan , Ph.D. Washington University Chipeniuk, Karsten, Ph.D. Indiana University 2017.
in St. Louis 2018. Essays on Incomplete Markets and Essays on Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics
Choi, Joonkyu , Ph.D. University of Maryland 2018.
Ardakani, Amid , Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Essays on Firm Dynamics and Job Creation
Milwaukee 2018. On the Relationship between Income
Chu, Yinxiao, Ph.D. University of Minnesota 2018.
Inequality and Economic Growth: An Asymmetric
Information Acquisition and Revelation in the Financial
Analysis
Markets
Argente Amaya, David Orlando, Ph.D. University
Clark, Aubrey , Ph.D. Harvard University 2017.
of Chicago 2018. Product Life Cycle, Learning, and
Principal–Agent Problems and Experimentation
Nominal Shocks
Clinton, Bentley, Ph.D. University of Colorado 2017.
Babkin, Anton , Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2017.
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Essays on Dynamic Firm Behavior
Colonnelli, Emanuele , Ph.D. Stanford University
Basu, Pathikrit, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
2018. Entrepreneurship and Firm Dynamics in
2017. Essays in Information Economics
Emerging Markets
Birjandi-Feriz, Maliheh, Ph.D. Yale University 2018.
Essays on Economics of Firms and Productivity in Cooke, Kevin, Ph.D. Boston University 2018. Essays
International Markets on the Influence of Experience and Environment on
Behavior
Biswas, Nabaneeta, Ph.D. University of Georgia 2017.
Political Economy, Gender and the Girl Child in India Cosandier, Charlene, Ph.D. University of Iowa 2018.
Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory
Borazan, Ahmad, Ph.D. University of Utah 2017. Three
Essays on Income Distribution in the U.S. Economy Cundy, Lance, Ph.D. University of Iowa 2018. Essays on
the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution
Bose, Devdeepta, Ph.D. University of Arizona 2018.
Essays on Fairness, Cooperation and Coordination Dai, Yifan (Anovia) , Ph.D. University of Iowa 2017.
Essays on Information, Search and Pricing
Bottan, Nicolas , Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018.
Essays in Behavioral Public Economics Daruich, Diego , Ph.D. New York University 2018.
Essays in Inequality and Family Economics
Bregu, Klajdi, Ph.D. University of Arkansas 2017. Three
Essays on the Effect of Overconfidence on Economic Deaton, Maxwell C., Ph.D. Middle Tennessee State
Decision Making University 2018. Essays on Consumer Preferences
Online
Bukhatwa, Abir, Ph.D. Clark University 2018. Essays
on the Effect of Armed Conflicts on the Accumulation Dewan, Ambuj, Ph.D. Columbia University 2017. Essays
of Human Capital in Information and Behavior
Cakir, Selcen, Ph.D. University of Virginia 2018. Party Dixit, Shiv, Ph.D. University of Minnesota 2018. Essays
Formation in Parliamentary Democracies on Contract Theory and Institution Design
Castellon Chicas, Cesar, Ph.D. Clemson University Duggan, Joseph , Ph.D. Ohio State University 2018.
2017. Three Essays on the Effect of Representation on Essays in Market Design Economics
Governance Dunaway, Eric , Ph.D. Washington State University
Chakraborty, Anujit , Ph.D. University of British 2018. Essays in Campaign Finance, Vaccination Choice
Columbia 2017. Essays in Behavioral Economics and Advertising
Chaves Villamizar, Isaias, Ph.D. Stanford University Ellis, Cameron , Ph.D. University of Georgia 2017.
2018. Problems in Market Design with Dynamic Essays in Insurance Economics
Populations Ershov, Daniel , Ph.D. University of Toronto 2018.
Chen, Jun, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 2018. Three Essays in Industrial Organization
Essays on Early-Stage Financing and Firm Behavior Evangelakis, Peter Anderson, Ph.D. University of
Chen, Tzai-Shuen , Ph.D. Washington University in Chicago 2018. Essays in Politics and Policy
St. Louis 2018. Essays on Applied Economics with Fesharaki, Sanaz , Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic
Machine Learning Approach Institute and State University 2017. Three Essays on
Chen, Yi
, Ph.D. Yale University 2018. Essays on Development Economics: Social Capital, Cost of the
Information Economics Sanctions and Group-Based Inequality in Iran
Cheng, Qingqing , Ph.D. Concordia University 2017. Frattarola, Rachel, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Essays in Information Transmission and Institution 2018. Essays on Development and Environmental
Design Economics
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Freer, Mikhail, Ph.D. George Mason University 2017. Huang Cheng, Xinzhe, Ph.D. University of California,
Essays on Preference Extensions Davis 2018. The Consumer Behavior of Supplemental
Fukuda, Satoshi , Ph.D. University of California, Nutrition Assistance Program Participants
Berkeley 2017. Essays in the Economics of Information Ichihashi, Shota , Ph.D. Stanford University 2018.
and Epistemology Essays on Information Disclosure and Auction Theory
Galvao, Raphael , Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Jain, Ritesh, Ph.D. Ohio State University 2018. Essays
2018. Political Economy of Transparency in Mechanism Design and Implementation Theory
Gao, Xiaoxue , Ph.D. Georgia State University 2017. Jajtner, Katie, Ph.D. Fordham University 2018. Essays
Three Essays on Experimental Economics and on Inequality and Disability
Individual Decision Making under Risk
Jatusripitak, Napat , Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Ghazi Kalahroudi, Soroush, Ph.D. Duke University 2018. Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
2018. Large Firms and Innovation-Led Growth
Jhunjhunwala, Tanushree , Ph.D. Ohio State
Gibson, Grant, Ph.D. McMaster University 2018. Four University 2018. Essays in Behavioral and Experimental
Essays in Inequality Economics
Gong, Rui
, Ph.D. Indiana University 2017. Network Jiang, Boqian, Ph.D. Syracuse University 2018. Three
Formation Games and Systemic Risk Essays in Urban and Regional Economics
Gordon, Steven, Ph.D. University of Kentucky 2017. Johnsson, Ida, Ph.D. University of Southern California
Essays on the Political Economy of Intergovernmental 2018. Essays on Beliefs, Networks and Spatial Modeling
Grants
Joo, Joonhwi, Ph.D. University of Chicago 2018. Essays
Graczyk, Andrew, Ph.D. University of North Carolina in Consumer Choice and Consumer Demand
2017. Housing Bubbles and Income Inequality
Josephson, Anna Leigh , Ph.D. Purdue University
Grieder, Timothy , Ph.D. Carleton University 2018. 2017. Household Decision Making under Stress: Three
Three Essays in Empirical Financial Economics Essays on Agricultural Production in Southern Africa
Griffy, Benjamin, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Jung, Hyunseok , Ph.D. Syracuse University 2018.
Barbara 2018. Three Essays on Market Imperfections Production, Efficiency and Managerial Selection of
and Inequality Workers into Peer Networks
Guo, Dongbo , Ph.D. Georgetown University 2018. Jung, Samuel Moon, Ph.D. City University of New York
Production and Consumption in Knowledge Market: 2017. Essays in Financial Development and Income
Solving the Old Puzzles with New Techniques Inequality
Guo, Huiyi, Ph.D. University of Iowa 2018. Essays on Kadio, Kadio D., Ph.D. Purdue University 2017. Storage,
Mechanism Design under Non-Bayesian Frameworks Adverse Selection, and Buffer Stock Releases in Benin’s
Gupta, Seher, Ph.D. New York University 2018. Essays Rural Maize Markets
on Multi-unit Auctions and Information Design Kamat, Vishal, Ph.D. Northwestern University 2018.
Gutierrez, Victor , Ph.D. University of California, Essays in Microeconomic Theory: Information Design,
Irvine 2018. Heterogeneity of Users’ and Firms’ Partnerships, and Matching
Concentration in Market with Network Effects Kanjilal, Kiriti, Ph.D. Washington State University
Hadavand, Aboozar, Ph.D. City University of New 2018. Essays in Behavioral Industrial Organization and
York 2017. Essays on Economics of Inequality Natural Resource Economics
Harris, Max, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018. Monetary Kao, Han-Yen , Ph.D. Rutgers University 2017.
War and Peace: Sterling, the Exchange Equalisation Experimental and Empirical Studies of Belief
Account and the Tripartite Agreement, 1931–1939 Formation
Hauner, Thomas, Ph.D. City University of New York Kaplan, Uma, Ph.D. Concordia University 2018. Three
2017. Essays on Inequality and Macroeconomic Stability Essays on Collusion in English Auctions: Theory and
Application
Hirfrfot Tafere, Kibrom, Ph.D. Cornell University
2017. Essays in Development Economics Khan, Bilal Muhammad, Ph.D. University of Southern
California 2017. Essays in International Economics
Hong, Yeon A., Ph.D. Washington State University 2018.
Essays on Determinants of Environmental Outcomes Khvastunov, Oleksii , Ph.D. Pennsylvania State
and Agricultural Policy University 2017. Essays on Industrial Organization
Horowitz, Basak, Ph.D. Rutgers University 2017. Kim, A. Ram, Ph.D. SUNY, Stony Brook 2017. Essays on
Games and Network Formation Two-Sided Market: Compatibility and Switching Costs
1676 Journal of Economic Literature

Kim, Kyeongkuk, Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa Li, Yanan, Ph.D. Cornell University 2018. Three Essays
2018. Three Essays on Household Behavior and Labor on Development and Labor Economics
Supply
Li, Yingxue, Ph.D. University of California, Davis 2017.
Kim, Kyunhwa, Ph.D. University of Southern California Disclosure of Awareness and Information: Theory and
2017. The Essays on the Optimal Information Experiment
Revelation and Multi-stop Shopping
Liang, Feifei, Ph.D. North Carolina State University
Kim, Meeroo, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays 2018. Three Essays on Retail-Shelf Nutrition Labels
on Multidimensional Private Information in the
Liao, Xiaoye, Ph.D. New York University 2018. Essays in
Consumer Credit
Information Design
Koh, Ernest, Ph.D. University of Maryland 2017. The
Libgober, Jonathan, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018.
Political Economy of Campaign Spending and Checks
Information and Learning in Mechanism Design
and Balances
Lin, Henry, Ph.D. Boston University 2018. Referral and
Koimisis, Georgios, Ph.D. City University of New York
Information Acquisition in Markets and Organizations
2018. Essays on Wealth Inequality and Asset Pricing
Kong, Si-Yuan, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine Lu, Dong , Ph.D. Indiana University 2017. Essays on
2018. Driver Response to Variable Message Signs in a Monetary Search Theory with Applications to Financial
2D Multiplayer Real-Time Driving Simulator Markets and International Economics

Kopecky, Joseph, Ph.D. University of California, Davis Lu, Zhouran , Ph.D. University of California, Los
2018. Essays in Microeconomics Angeles 2018. Essays on Contract Theory and Industrial
Organization
Kosenko, Andrew, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018.
Essays in Economic Theory: Strategic Communication Ma, Sen, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018. Three Essays
and Information in Applied Microeconomics on Contemporary Chinese
Economic Issues
Kovaliukaite, Ada , Ph.D. Texas A&M University
2018. The Role of Strategic Beliefs in Understanding Malasquez Carbonel, Eduardo, Ph.D. University
Strategic, Pro-social and Socially Complementary of Illinois 2017. Three Essays on the Effects of Shocks
Behavior from Conflicts and Family Size in Latin America
Kudko, Ievgenii Leonidovich , Ph.D. University at Mamadzhanov, Alisher , Ph.D. Washington State
Buffalo 2017. Models of Urban Income Inequality and University 2017. Markets for Energy and Local Food
Heterogeneity Maslov, Alexander, Ph.D. Carleton University 2018.
Kwon, Sungoh, Ph.D. University of Connecticut 2018. Auctions and Finite Posted Prices in Online Markets
Three Essays on Socioeconomic Inequality Matthews, Nicola , Ph.D. University of Missouri,
Lee, Jaeyoon, Ph.D. University of Chicago 2018. Credit Kansas City 2018. A Theory of Consumer Fraud in
Access and Household Well-Being: Evidence from Market Economies
Payday Lending Miyauchi, Yuhei , Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
Lee, Jin Hyung, Ph.D. Texas A&M University 2017. Two Technology 2018. Essays on Economic Geography and
Essays on the Average Bid Auction Networks
Lee, Jong Jae, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 2017. On Mohammed, Abdul Raheem Shariq, Ph.D. University
the Economics of Information: Three Essays of Arizona 2018. Essays on Economic and Demographic
Inequality in the United States and India
Lenzu, Simone, Ph.D. University of Chicago 2018. Do
Marginal Products Differ from User Costs? Micro-level Molnar, Timea Laura , Ph.D. University of British
Evidence from Italian Firms Columbia 2017. Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Li, Chaozheng , Ph.D. University of Kansas Morlacco, Monica, Ph.D. Yale University 2018. Essays
2018. Learning, Observability and Time-Varying on Market Power and Firm Behavior in International
Macroeconomic Volatility Markets
Li, Hao
, Ph.D. Southern Methodist University 2018. Mu, Xiaosheng, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018. Essays
Empirical Essays on Household Economics on the Economics of Information
Li, Jing, Ph.D. University of Tennessee 2017. Essays in Neligh, Nate, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays
Behavioral Economics on Network Formation and Attention
Li, Qi, Ph.D. University of Chicago 2018. Securitization Nelson, Scott , Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
and Liquidity Creation in Markets with Adverse Technology 2018. Essays on Household Finance and
Selection Credit Market Regulation
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Nguyen, Anh, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays Ralston, Jason, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
on Asymmetric Information 2018. Savings, Effort, and Innovation: Essays on
Nighswander, Tristan, Ph.D. University of Oregon Suboptimality and Its Determinants
2018. Behavioral Biases in General Equilibrium: Rappoport, Daniel, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018.
Implications for Wealth Inequality and Human Capital Essays in Information Economics and Monotone
Formation Comparative Statics
Nikzad, Afshin, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays Robalino, Juan David, Ph.D. Cornell University 2017.
on Sharing: Rides and Kidneys Essays on the Role of Social Status and Peer Effects on
Nomira, Akihiro , Ph.D. University at Albany 2018. Individuals’ Behavior and Well-Being
Essays on Public Policy Analysis Using Macroeconomic Roldan, Pau , Ph.D. New York University 2018.
Models Essays in Firm Dynamics, Economic Growth, and
O’Donnell, Joshua, Ph.D. New York University 2018. Macroeconomics
Essays in Microeconomics and Networks Ruane, Cian, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays on
Ohlmacher, Scott , Ph.D. University of Maryland Firm Productivity and Macro Development
2017. Essays on the Management and Organizational Saponara, Nicholas , Ph.D. Boston University 2018.
Practices Survey Essays on Understanding and Beliefs
Okiemen, Isaiah, Ph.D. Howard University 2018. Title: Schlockermann, Jakob, Ph.D. Princeton University
Payday Lending and Consumer’s Economic Well-Being 2018. Essays on Incentives, Moral Hazard and Optimal
Oldham Luedtke, Allison Lee , Ph.D. University Policy
of Virginia 2018. Endogenous Network Formation: Seetharam, Ishuwar, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018.
Theory and Application Essays on Firms and Networks in the Economy
Olivo, Miguel, Ph.D. University of Calgary 2017. Essays Shen, Chaohai , Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
on Demographic Economics 2017. Essays on the Economics of Collusion
Ortega, Alberto, Ph.D. University of Florida 2017. Shi, Bowen, Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and
Essays on Political Economy and Education State University 2018. Three Essays on Networks
Oviedo Moguel, Rodolfo , Ph.D. Washington Shi, Liyan, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
University in St. Louis 2018. Essays on Wealth 2018. Essays on Macroeconomics and Firm Dynamics
Inequality and Macroeconomics
Shrago, Brad, Ph.D. University of North Carolina 2018.
Pan, Jutong, Ph.D. University of British Columbia 2017. Fuel Price Beliefs and the Consumer Response to Price
Essays on Household Consumption and Labor Supply Fluctuations: The Choice between Gasoline and Diesel
Park, Jinseong, Ph.D. University of Tennessee 2018. Vehicles
Three Essays in Public Economics Somma, Valentin , Ph.D. Columbia University 2018.
Park, Ju Young, Ph.D. Rutgers University 2017. Essays in Essays in Economics Theory
Non-market Valuation of Environmental Impacts Song, Li, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology 2018.
Parker, Damien, Ph.D. New School for Social Research Three Essays on Mechanism Design
2018. A Treatise on Wealth Distributions with Sterpan, Ion , Ph.D. George Mason University 2017.
Application to the U.S. and Germany Polycentricity and the Theory of Order
Peralta, Abigail , Ph.D. Texas A&M University Strandholm, John C. , Ph.D. Washington State
2018. The Impact of Election Fraud on Government University 2017. Pollution Abatement R&D Investment
Performance under Different Market Structures and Regulatory
Peralta, Esteban, Ph.D. Yale University 2018. Essays Regimes
on Market Design Straub, Ludwig , Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
Pierri, Nicola, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays Technology 2018. Essays on Inequality, Interest Rates
on Firm Performance and Macroeconomic Policies
Portillo Elias, Javier, Ph.D. Florida State University Sun, Yuzheng, Ph.D. Cornell University 2017. Essays on
2017. Essays on the Dynamics of Land-Assembly: Firms, Investors, and Stock Markets
Holdouts, Spillovers, and Acquisition Szucs, Ferenc, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Qiu, Jiehong, Ph.D. Washington State University 2018. 2018. Essays on Corruption and Political Favoritism
Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization Teague, Megan, Ph.D. George Mason University 2017.
Qiu, Zichen, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2017. Two Three Essays on Morality, Identity, and Economic
Essays on Industrial Organization Regulation
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Teng, Hao, Ph.D. University of Rochester 2018. Essays Yang, Guanyi, Ph.D. Ohio State University 2018. Essays
in Applied Microeconomics on Labor Market Frictions and Macroeconomic Welfare
Tian, Lin, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Essays on Yang, Jangho, Ph.D. New School for Social Research
Spatial Economics 2017. Essays on the Statistical Equilibrium Model of
Tondji, Jean-Baptiste , Ph.D. University of Ottawa Technical Change
2018. Essays on Reciprocity, Institutions, and Political Yang, Tsung Han, Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Design and State University 2017. Essays on Applied Game
Tonguc, Ozlem, Ph.D. University of Maryland 2017. Theory and Public Economics
Essays in Behavioral Economics Yildirim, Alev Isil, Ph.D. City University of New York
Tracy, Josef , Ph.D. Georgia State University 2017. 2018. Essays on Banking and Corporate Finance
Essays on Behavior, Experimental Design, Health and Young, Benjamin , Ph.D. Princeton University 2018.
the Environment Essays in Behavioral Economics
Twum-Barima, Asare, Ph.D. University of California, Yuan, Ding , Ph.D. Columbia University 2018. Three
Davis 2017. Heterogeneous Consumption and Labor Essays on the Economics of Contracts in Labor and
Market Adjustments in Response to Birth Events and Corporate Debt
Its Implications for Dietary Quality
Yucel, Emekcan, Ph.D. University of Maryland 2017.
Verner, Emil, Ph.D. Princeton University 2018. Essays Essays on Electoral Models
on Household Credit Markets and Business Cycles
Zabek, Mike, Ph.D. University of Michigan 2018. Essays
Verstyuk, Sergiy, Ph.D. University of Chicago 2017. on Places and Economic Inequality
Log, Stock and Two Simple Lotteries
Zhan, Wei, Ph.D. Texas A&M University 2017. Monte
Waisman, Caio, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays
Carlo and Analytical Methods for Forced Outage Rate
on the Empirical Analysis of Selling Mechanisms
Calculations of Peaking Units
Waldinger, Daniel , Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute
Zhao, Naibao , Ph.D. Texas A&M University 2018.
of Technology 2018. Empirical Essays on Dynamic
Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
Allocation Mechanisms
Walsh, Christoph, Ph.D. Boston University 2018. Zhao, Zhiqi, Ph.D. Clemson University 2018. Three
Dynamic Oligopoly and Regulation in Developing Essays on Human Capital and the Distribution of
Countries Income

Wang, Kunyu, Ph.D. University of Ottawa 2018. Essays Zhu, Jialiang , Ph.D. George Washington University
in Applied Economics 2017. Essays on Information Disclosure, Opportunistic
Strategies, and Government
Wang, Rongzhang, Ph.D. University of California, Los
Angeles 2018. The Impact of Economic Policies on Zhu, Zhe, Ph.D. University of Virginia 2018. Essays on
Heterogeneous Consumers Income Inequality and Structural Transformation
Wang, Tao, Ph.D. SUNY, Stony Brook 2017. Essays on Zhuo, Longhao , Ph.D. University of Missouri 2017.
Information Acquisition in Industrial Organization Essays on Decision Making under Uncertainty:
Stochastic Dominance
Wang, Xiangrui , Ph.D. Washington State University
2018. Three Essays on Natural Resource Economics,
Agricultural Policy, and Food Policy E  Macroeconomics and Monetary
Wewel, Solvejg A., Ph.D. Boston College 2018. Essays Economics
in Household Economics and Econometrics
Williams, Cole, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine Abed, Sepehr Moghareh , Ph.D. Northern Illinois
2018. Heterogeneity in Learning University 2017. Essays in Labor Economics
Wilson, Riley, Ph.D. University of Maryland 2018. Ahmed, Haydory Akbar, Ph.D. Kansas State University
Essays on Individual Responses to Labor Market 2017. Essays on Fiscal Deficit, Debt and Monetary
Conditions and Policies Policy: A Nonlinear Approach
Xiong, Wentao, Ph.D. Harvard University 2018. Essays Ahmed, Mohammad Iqbal , Ph.D. Kansas State
in Applied Microeconomics University 2017. Essays in Asymmetric Empirical
Macroeconomics
Yang, David, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays
on the Behavioral Political Economy of Authoritarian Akcay, Mustafa , Ph.D. Temple University 2018. The
Regimes: Historical and Contemporary Evidence from Link between Federal Funds Rate and Banking System
China Distress: An Empirical Investigation
Doctoral Dissertations 1679

Aum, Sangmin, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis de Castro Botelho, Vasco, Ph.D. Duke University
2018. Essays on Macroeconomics 2018. Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets
Ayres Queiroz da Silva, Joao, Ph.D. University of De, Kuhelika, Ph.D. University of Georgia 2017. The
Minnesota 2017. Essays in International Economics and Food Price Channel: Effects of Monetary Policy on the
Macroeconomics Poor in India
Balloch, Cynthia Mei, Ph.D. Columbia University Dhungana, Sandesh, Ph.D. Columbia University 2018.
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Carrico, Caitlyn H., Ph.D. Purdue University 2017. Jo, Donghee , Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
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Developments, Policy Implications, and Distributional and Communication
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in Trade and Productivity Essays in Applied Economics: Topics in Transportation,
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Using Rational Expectations Storage Model to Explain Khan, Syed Shurid , Ph.D. University of Hawaii at
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Regulation in the Pharmaceutical Market
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2017. Three Essays on Regulatory Economics of U.S.
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Experimental Investigation Market Power in Markets for Power
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Ngwava, Chigozie Andy , Ph.D. Northern Illinois Zhou, Tianxia, Ph.D. University of California, Davis
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in Broadband Economics Industrial Organization of Online Marketplaces
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Product Variety in the U.S. Yogurt Industry 2018. Essays in Comparative Development and Political
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Essays in Industrial Organization
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Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization The Legacy of the Missing Men: World War I and
Female Labor in France over a Century
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Political Economy of Mining Reclamation Scott, Walter , Ph.D. American University 2017.
Streetcar Suburbs, Mortgage Finance, and the
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Three Essays on Airline Pricing and Entrepreneurial Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the
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Structure and Product Pricing Dynamics: Evidence 2017. Essays on Interactions, Innovation and the Wage
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Dean, Joshua , Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Oz, Gokhan , Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2018.
Technology 2018. Essays on Cognition in Development Essays on Innovation
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Essays on Economic Growth in India Schneider, Rodrigo, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018.
Essays in Public Policy and Social Outcomes in Brazil
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Investment, and Economic Growth Three Essays in Industrial Organization
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Innovation through the Life Course

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Growth in the Caribbean and Other Topics Consumer and Firm Behavior in Two Technological
Industries
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Saharan Africa Impacts on Income Inequality and Productivity Growth
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The Efficiency Implications of Firm Heterogeneity in
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Essays in Development Economics: Private Transfers, Essays on Economic Growth and Inequality in China
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Processes since 1989 Three Essays on Beef Genomics: Economic and
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on China’s Household Saving Rate and Education Policy Brown, Maxwell, Ph.D. Colorado School of Mines
2017. Essays in Mineral and Energy Policy
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Three Essays on Nonlinear Effects in Development Browne, Oliver Roman, Ph.D. University of Chicago
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2017. Essays on Growth and Input Misallocation in Bruegge, Chris, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays
China in Energy and Environmental Economics
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of Agricultural Programs
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Understanding China’s Soybean Boom from a Global Carleton, Tamma , Ph.D. University of California,
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Change: Essays on Climate and Water
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Firms’ Productivity Three Essays in Environmental and Energy Economics
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Essays on Amenity Valuation
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Economics • Environmental and Ecological Celik, Bilal, Ph.D. University of Tennessee 2017.
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
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Abdulrahman, Abdulallah, Ph.D. Clark University Three Essays in Fisheries Economics
2017. Economics of Climate Change Adaptation: Essays Cheng, Yingzhe , Ph.D. University of New Mexico
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Economics of Climate Change and Water Resources in Essays on Energy Economics and Market Structure:
Semi-arid Regions Investigating Catalysts for Entry and Exit
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Three Essays in Global Warming and Carbon Taxes 2017. Essays in Development Economics
Algowear Almestneer, Raed , Ph.D. Southern DeLay, Nathan , Ph.D. Washington State University
Illinois University 2018. Economic Diversification: The 2018. Agricultural Risk Management Policy and
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Environmental Quality
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Economics of Precision Agricultural Adoption in the Saharan African Countries Production Function
Southern U.S. Approach
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Fan, Mingxuan, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2018. Lee, Sul-Ki , Ph.D. Colorado School of Mines 2018.
The Impact of Air Pollution and Its Regulation Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics
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on Agribusiness Economics and Management in Energy and Environmental Markets
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Three Essays on Agricultural Insurance and Farm Real 2018. Fish, Time, and Water: Essays on Environmental
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2017. Three Essays on Agricultural Microfinance and 2017. Three Essays on the Idiosyncrasies of a Perennial
Risk Management Crop: The Case of the US Almond Market
Gao, Shen, Ph.D. University of Wyoming 2018. Pegging Meyer, Kevin, Ph.D. Iowa State University 2017. Three
Input Prices to Output Prices—A Special Price Essays on Environmental and Resource Economics
Adjustment Clause in Long-Term CO2 Sales Contracts Moffette, Fanny, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2018.
in Enhanced Oil Recovery Forest Conservation and Agriculture: Essays on Land
Use Trade-Offs and Spillovers
Gillan, James, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
2018. Essays in Energy and Environmental Economics Mohammed, Mikidadu, Ph.D. University of Utah 2017.
Essays on the Causes and Dynamic Effects of Oil Price
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Poverty in Developing Countries: A Bioeconomic Mohan, Sarah, Ph.D. Carleton University 2017. Risk
General Equilibrium Perspective and Certification to Agricultural Standards
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Essays in Economics of Prey–Predator Relation Barbara 2018. Economic Models of Conservation,
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Davis 2017. The California Almond Pollination Market: Mooney, Daniel, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2017.
Contracts and Honey Colony Health Ex-Ante Analysis of a Novel Production Practice: Three
Essays on Land Supply for Bioenergy Cropping Systems
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Berkeley 2018. Essays on the Competitive Commodity Mueller, Rose , Ph.D. University of Oregon 2018.
Storage Model Essays in Environmental Economics
Murayama, Kentaro, Ph.D. American University 2017.
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Food Price Surges, Trade Policy Responses, and the
2017. The Economics of Household Decisions, Gender,
Welfare Implications to Tanzanian Households
and Agricultural Mechanization in India
Murphy, Joshua, Ph.D. University of Toronto 2017.
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The Costs, Benefits, and Efficiency of Air Quality
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Hammer, Dan, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Naim, Nehan, Ph.D. Northeastern University 2018.
2017. Monitoring Forest Policy from Space Essays in Industrial Organization: Of Energy,
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2017. Essays on Economic Development Nam, SangUk , Ph.D. University of Arizona 2018.
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Berkeley 2018. Essays in Energy and Urban Economics 2018. The Adoption and Impacts of Improved Storage
Technology among Smallholder Farm Households in
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Essays on Agricultural and Environmental Economics Management in Nepal
Kim, Moon Joon, Ph.D. North Carolina State University Preonas, Louis, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
2017. Essays on Long-Range Transport of Air Pollution 2018. Three Essays on Energy Economics
and Its Health Outcomes
Rajbhandari, Isha Rajbhandari , Ph.D. Ohio
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2018. Essays on Development Economics Developments on Local Economies in the US
1698 Journal of Economic Literature

Rakitan, Timothy, Ph.D. Iowa State University 2017. Wu, Qianrong, Ph.D. Iowa State University 2017. Three
Essays in the Economics of Energy Development and Essays on Applied Human Behavioral Economics and
Disamenities Individual Choices
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2017. Essays on Measuring the Economic Impacts of 2018. Empirical Studies in Price, Risk and Policy
Keystone Species Xu, Minhong , Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018. The
Robbins, Ty, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Socioeconomic Consequences of the U.S. Fracking
Barbara 2017. Three Essays in Environmental Boom
Economics Yan, Lei
, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2017. Essays on
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Resource Economics Essays in Economics of U.S. Dairy Markets
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Essays on Contemporary Issues in Climate Change and 2017. Three Essays on Industrial Organization and
Urban Development Environmental Economics
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Essays on the Impact of Weather on Economic Activity Wildlife Conservation Programs: Value, Timing, and
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Schreiber, Andrew , Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Essays on Environmental Economics
2018. Essays in Regional Economic and Environmental Zapata, Oscar, Ph.D. University of Calgary 2017. Essays
Policy Analysis on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change
Shi, Longzhong, Ph.D. North Carolina State University Zou, Yongchen, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2018. Essays
2018. Controlling for Unobserved Preference on the Economics of Pollution Prevention
Heterogeneity and Site Characteristics in Count Data
Recreation Demand Systems
Smith, Michael , Ph.D. American University 2018. R  Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate,
Essays on Food Security, Health, and Immigration and Transportation Economics
Song, Jingyu, Ph.D. Purdue University 2017. Pixel Level
Land Use Allocation via Quasi–Maximum Likelihood Ayzenberg, Irina, Ph.D. City University of New York
Estimation 2018. Analyzing Housing Demand and Its Role in the
U.S. Economy
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Reducing the Risk of Pesticide Resistance: Economic Burley, Jessica, Ph.D. University of Toronto 2017. The
and Behavioral Factors Affecting U.S. Farmers’ Socio-economics of Neighbourhoods and Cities: Papers
Pesticide Use and Resistance Management in Urban Economics

Sweeney, Jonathan R., Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Chakrabarty, Durba , Ph.D. Oklahoma State
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Viaene, Arvid Rachel Dirk , Ph.D. University of Close, Brett , Ph.D. University of Wisconsin 2017.
Chicago 2018. The Economic Impacts of Climate Essays on Sorting Models
Change: Evidence from Agriculture Diagne, Adji, Ph.D. Howard University 2018. Racial
Wang, Haiyan , Ph.D. Texas Tech University 2017. and Financial Outcomes of Local Affordable Housing
China’s Grain Sorghum Import Demand: Measuring Provisions: The Case for the Montgomery County
the Effect of Policies on Price Relationships and Future Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit
Trends Fazilet, Fatih , Ph.D. University of Minnesota 2018.
Wang, Yun-Ling, Ph.D. University of Washington 2018. Essays in Financial Economics
Essays on Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Commercial Ghodsi, Seyed, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin,
Fishery—Management Policies and Pricing Mechanism Milwaukee 2017. Nonlinear ARDL Approach and the
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Economics and Politics of Wildfire Management Behavioral Responses to Congestion Pricing
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Guo, Hao, Ph.D. University of Kentucky 2017. Geography, Shen, Shulin, Ph.D. Syracuse University 2018. Studies
Trade, and Macroeconomics on Housing Market Dynamics and Cointegration
Haghani Rizi, Majid, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Analysis with Latent Factors
Milwaukee 2018. Three Essays on the Housing Market Singh, Ruchi, Ph.D. University of Illinois 2017. Three
and Financial Intermediaries Essays in Urban Economics
Hang, Jing, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Sinistera Paz, Guillermo Alberto, Ph.D. University
2018. Essays on Agriculture, Misallocation, and at Buffalo 2018. Effect of Transport Improvements on
Economic Development Urban Form, Employment Location and Prices
Howard, Gregory, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Su, Yichen, Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. Essays in
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Jamil, Mohammad Gazi, Ph.D. Concordia University Essays on Spatial Skill Sorting and Household Saving
2017. Three Essays on Inter-provincial Labour Mobility Behavior
of Canada
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Khun Jush, Gita, Ph.D. University of Chicago 2017. 2017. Economic Geography and Development of
Assessing the City Size Earnings Premium in Germany
American Industry
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Villarreal, Carlos Ricardo , Ph.D. University of
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Illinois, Chicago 2018. Essays on the Persistence of
Agglomeration and Immigration Policy
Urban Forms
Kincaid, Michael , Ph.D. Harvard University 2018.
Essays in Housing Economics Vinson, Philip, Ph.D. Indiana University 2017. Essays in
Housing and Fiscal Policy
Kreindler, Gabriel, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
Technology 2018. Essays on the Economics of Urban Yang, Fan , Ph.D. University of Southern California
Transportation 2018. Common Factors and Spatial Dependence: An
Application to US House Prices
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Causal Effects of Active Living-Oriented Zoning on
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the Labor Market Effects of Globalization
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Lucas, David S., Ph.D. George Mason University 2018. Mechanics of Regional Growth: Evidence from a
Essays on Non-market Entrepreneurship and Public
Large-Scale Skill Resettlement Program
Policy: The Case of Homelessness in the United States
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Moon, Yoon Sang, Ph.D. University at Buffalo 2017. Garz, Seth, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Essays on Urban Spacial Structure Theory 2017. Three Applied Economic Studies in Collaboration
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2018. Essays on Modeling Housing Markets, Income McCloskey, Jessica, Ph.D. University of Kansas 2018.
Distribution, and Wealth Concentration Essays in State Policy
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