About The Department

Recent PhD Theses

2013

New Methods for Econometric Inference
Chetverikov, Denis

2012

Wealth Inequality and the Losses from Financial Frictions
Blaum, Joaquin

Peer Effects and Loan Repayment: Evidence from the Krishna Default Crisis
Breza, Emily

A Quantitative Approach to Incentives: Application to Voting Rules
Carroll, Gabriel

Econometrics of sampled networks
Chandrasekhar, Arun

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
Dell, Melissa

General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions
Feiveson, Laura

Reading the Fine Print: Credit Demand and Information Disclosure in Brazil
Ferman, Bruno

Why Unions Still Matter: The Effects of Unionization on the Distribution of Employee Earnings
Frandsen, Brigham

Private Information and Insurance Rejections
Hendren, Nathaniel

Liquidity Scarcity, Project Selection and Volatility
Iachan, Felipe

Sophisticated Risk Management and Aggregate Volatility
Iovino, Luigi

Optimal Information Revelation
Kolotilin, Anton

Dynamic Moral Hazard with Persistent States
Kwon, Suehyun

Bias, Information, and Efficiency in Expert Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
Li, Danielle

The Evolution of Physician Practice Styles: Evidence from Cardiologist Migration
Molitor, David

Labor Market and Regional Reallocation Effects of Housing Busts
Nenov, Plamen

Heterogeneous Mark-Ups and Endogenous Misallocation
Peters, Michael

Productivity, Credibility, and Misallocation in Industry Equilibrium
Powell, Michael

The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis: Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
Querubin, Pablo

The Long-term Impact of Business Cycles on Innovation: Evidence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shu, Pian

Physician Ownership and Incentives: Evidence from Cardiac Care
Swanson, Ashley

A Bayesian Approach to Option Mispricing
Vargas, Alberto

A Principal-Expert Model and The Value of Menus
Zermeno, Luis

2011

Approaches to Mechanism Design with Boundedly Rational Agents
Carroll, Gabriel

Essays in Economics
Sawnson, Ashley

Essays on the Principal-Expert Problem
Valles, Luis G. Zermeno

2010

Liquidity, Facilities, and Signaling
Arregui, Nicolas

Essays on International Economics
Basco Mascaro, Sergi

Essays in Unemployment Insurance
Brown, David

Essays in Dynamic General Equilibrium
Cao, Dan

Essays on Genetic Variation and Economic Behavior
Cesarini, David

Identifying and Estimating the Distributional Effects of Unionization and the Long-term Consequences of Military Service
Frandsen, Brigham

Smoothing Consumption across Households and Time: Essays in Development Economics
Kinnan, Cynthia

Household Savings and Portfolio Choice
Klein, Sean

Essays on Liquidity and Information
Kurlat, Pablo

Essays on Informational Frictions in Macroeconomics and Finance
La'O, Jennifer

Essays on Economies with Heterogeneous Labor
Lehr, Brandon

Essays in Empirical Law and Economics
Lem (Chou), Jacklin

Measuring the Effects of Online Advertising on Human Behavior Using Natural and Field Experiments
Lewis, Randall

Essays on Imperfect Information, Macroeconomic Fluctuations, and Nominal Rigidities
L'Huillier Bowles, Jean

Essays on Political Accountability in Non-Democratic Regimes
Martinez, Monica

Essays on Political Economy
Migueis, Marco

Essays on the Economics of Local Labor Markets
Notowidigdo, Matthew

Political Elites and Development
Querubin, Pablo

Essays on Taxation and Firm Behavior
Rao, Nirupama

Essays on Insurance and Taxation
Scheuer, Florian

Essays on Uncertainty in Economics
Simsek, Alp

Essays on Entrepreneurship
Taveras, Carmen

2009

Essays on Growth and Innovation Policies
Akcigit, Ufuk

Essays on Sovereign Debt and International Capital Flows
Basu, Suman

Essays on Household Decision Making in Developing Countries
Berry, James

Financing Retirement Consumption and Bequests
Bowen Bishop, Tonja

Social Networks in Industrial Organization
Campbell, Arthur

Essays in Decision Making
Chang, Tom

Essays on Dynamic Sales Mechanisms
Chen, Chia-Hui

Essays on the Structural Estimation and Analysis of Corporate and Industrial Markets
Cohen, Moshe

Essays on Incentives for Innovation
Ederer, Florian

Essays on Taxation and Investmemt
Edgerton, Jesse

Essays on Malpractice Law and Physician Behavior
Frakes, Michael

Essays on Contract Theory and Behavioral Economics
Gottlieb, Daniel

Essays on Health Care Consumption and Household Finance
Gross, Tal

Essays on the Development of the American Economy
Hornbeck, Richard

Empirical Study of New Keynesian Model Using Cointegrated VAR: What New Zealand Data Tell Us
Kim, Hae-Min

Essays on Contract Theory and Organizational Economics
Ke, Rongzhu

Essays on Set Estimation and Inference with Moment Inequalities
Menzel, Konrad

Three Essays on the Impacts of Income Taxes
Powell, David

Empirical Essays on Finance and Development
Shapiro, Jeremy

Essays on Optimal Insurance Design
Spinnewijn, Johannes

Essays on Political Boundaries
Weese, Eric

Essays in the Economics of Education and Program Evaluation
Zhang, Hongliang

2008

Essays on Mechanism Design
Balestrieri, Filippo

Federal Mandates and Mortgage Supply: Regression Discontinuity Analyses of the Community Reinvestment and GSE Acts
Bhutta, Filippo

Essays in the Economics of Education and Health
Cohen, Jessica

Essays on International Capital Flows
Didier, Tatiana

Essays on Development Finance
Fischer, Gregory

Essays in Empirical Microeconomics
Guiteras, Raymond

Essays in Financial Econometrics
Kocatulum, Emre

Essays on Medical Care Using Semiparametric and Structural Econometrics
Kowalski, Amanda

Essays on Matching, Marriage and Human Capital Accumulation
Lafortune, Jeanne

Essays in Industrial Economics
Leao, Joao

Three Essays on the Impact of Openness, FDE and Business Law on Economic Growth
Lee, HaYan

Education and Health Care in Developing Countries
Nguyen, Trang

Essays in Incomplete Markets
Panousi, Vasia

Policies of Different Governments: Persistence and Interactions
Ricka, Frantisek

Essays on European Labor Markets
Sa, Filipa

Migration and Development in Mexican Communities
Schnabl, Peter

Tax Policy, Housing Markets, and Elderly Homeowners
Shan, Hui

Essays in Macroeconomics and Experiments
Shurchkov, Olga

Essays on the Youth and Low-Skilled Labor Market
Smith, Christopher

2007

Essays on Coordination, Cooperation, and Learning
Chassang, Sylvain

On Dictatorships
Debs, Alexandre

Essays in Applied Economics
Grant, Alan

Essays in Open Economy Macroeconomics
Ghosh, Indradeep

Essays in Econometrics and Random Matrix Theory
Harding, Matthew

Of Energy and the Economy--Theory and Evidence for their Functional Relationship
Hua-Cheng Chang, Vincent

Learning in the Labor Market
Li, Jin

Essays on the Teacher Labor Market
McKie, Allison

Essays in Organizational Economics
Rantakari, Heikki

Essays on Optimal Taxation
Reis, Catarina

Essays on Development Economics
Ruthbah, Ummul

Essays on Financial Market Imperfections
Wu, Ding

Essays on Political Institutions and Macroeconomics
Yared, Pierre