[PDF] Top 20 Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory

... This dissertation consists of three chapters that each study one applied microeconomic theory problem. In the first chapter, I consider the problem a social planner faces in constructing a criminal ... See full document

... Competition, Conflict and Institutions Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory Giovanni Ko A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics Department of Economics London Sc[.] ... See full document

... Despite firm one's higher fixed costs these will always be covered by firm one accepting its second period contract, with either a or & in the first period, and therefore it is able to g[r] ... See full document

... THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Essays in Applied Microeconomics Gianpaolo Caramellino A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for the[.] ... See full document

... The London School of Economics and Political Science Essays in Applied Microeconomics Fabio Pinna June 30, 2014 Thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for th[.] ... See full document

... L S  E  P S Essays in Applied Microeconomics Patrick Blanchenay Thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics and Political Sci[.] ... See full document

... When I divide the full sample based on the different labor market states (employment, unemployment, and return migration), there are several distinctive findings: more female migrants ar[r] ... See full document

... by theory - as a result, implied forward rates also diverge rath er th an converging to any fixed ...in theory, it is not clear th a t they perform b etter th a n standard splines in practice (Shea, ... See full document

... This prediction of the theory is, however, more tenuous in practice. In an early contribution to this topic, Christopher Carroll and Lawrence Summers (1991) established that, across coun- tries, consumption growth ... See full document

... Inequity averse individuals want to reduce inequity. If benefits exceed costs, an inequity averse individual is thus willing to sacrifice some of his payoff in order to help another indi- vidual with a lower payoff. Yet ... See full document

... of applied work has been on rm behaviour in view of such time-inconsistent consumers, analyses of strategic interaction by several time-inconsistent agents are ...bargaining theory developed by Ingolf Ståhl ... See full document

... One of the most interesting studies using a reduced form approach is Hendricks and Porter (1988). They analyse the auctioning of offshore oil and gas drainage leases in the United States. In contrast to wildcat tracts, ... See full document

... Borjas’ theory. 4 However, this theory has received mixed support (Chiquiar and Hanson, 2005; Belot and Hatton, 2012), and in particular Grogger and Hanson (2011) argue that the absolute (as opposed to the ... See full document

... 3. Firms taking loans in foreign currency have access to foreign credit markets where they can obtain cheap loans. Domestic banks are forced to offer them low interest loans while enjoying a degree of monopoly power on ... See full document

... We find a quadratic food Engel curve, a disproportionate effect of a high rice price on the welfare of low-income households and no significant effect of the rice price increase between [r] ... See full document

... The theory we propose differs from that of Franzoni and Schmalz (2017) because their model describes the fund’s loading on aggregate risk (β) as a preset fund specific exposure, whereas our model gives the ability ... See full document

... graph theory to matching ...The theory of random bipartite graphs provides techniques to count the likely numbers of firms and workers satisfying the specified ... See full document

... Sunk cost contests, where eort is unrecoverable, are pervasive. Especially impor- tant are those where the winners need only perform slightly better to take all (Frank and Cook, 2010; Rosen, 1981). These are in eect ... See full document

... Essays in Applied Economic Theory Essays in Applied Economic Theory Inés Moreno de Barreda A Thesis Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Ph D , Economics Department of Economics London Sc[.] ... See full document

... a London School of Economics and Political Science Essays in Applied Econometrics Vincenzo Scrutinio July, 2019 A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for[.] ... See full document