[PDF] Top 20 Three Essays on Microeconomic Theory

... the theory of random bipartite graphs provides us with techniques to count the likely numbers of nodes, ...the theory of ran- dom bipartite graphs has not been used before in the matching literature, we ... 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

... 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

... There is a non-axiomatic literature that proposes several models which can explain the similarity, compromise, and attraction effects. Rieskamp et al. (2006) is an excellent survey. Examples are Tversky (1972a), Roe et ... See full document

... Assigning indivisible objects to agents without using monetary transfers is a common theme in many matching markets. This paper studies the simplest form of the problem: agents have strict preferences on objects, while ... See full document

... This thesis consists of three independent and unrelated chapters. Each of them rep- resents an area of my research interests. The first chapter of this thesis contributes to the fascinating and growing literature ... See full document

... paradox theory, my first essay addresses how Buddhist monks deal with tension between organization’s financial sustainability (simply finance) and traditional meditative practice (simply ... See full document

... So long as university graduates are bumping out high school graduates from the clerical jobs, the expected PV and hence the demand for higher education will rem[r] ... See full document

... of three essays in which I study two such environments using microeconomic models to study optimal solutions in multilateral ...two essays deal with the e↵ects of resale on allocation ... See full document

... Suppose Mary is trying to save for her retirement. However, she is concerned that she may not know all the risks involved in the economy; hence she decides to con- sult a panel of economists. Each economist gives her a ... See full document

... From three independent sources of large scale micro data, that includes administrative records from schools and representative household sur- veys, we find that in former British Provinces females have 5% lower ... See full document

... Recent ndings on actual advisers' behaviour by Linnainmaa et al. (2016) relate to ours. Using matched data on about 5900 Canadian nancial advisers and their more than 580,000 clients, these studies show that the most ... 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

... 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

... 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

... contract) theory, whose aim is to examine how best to organize the principal-agent relationship in con- texts of asymmetric ...contract theory are outlined, and some typical agency problems are presented, ... See full document

... macroeconomic theory because they did not expect to capture enough operating benefits to cover fixed ...Also, theory is subject to scale economies: The more ideas available, the easier to create another, by ... See full document

... active theory literature studying credit rating agencies (Bolton, Freixas and Shapiro (2012), Bar-Isaac and Shapiro (2010), Donaldson and Piacentino (2012), Kurlat and Veldkamp (2011), Manso (2014), Mathis, ... See full document

... This dissertation consists of two essays concerning Monetary Theory and Policy. Essay 1, "Monetary Policy and Asset Prices", develops a dynamic model in which money and a financial asset compete as ... See full document

... According to the microeconomic theory, production is a function of capital, labor, energy, and other inputs of economic factors, and a profit- maximizing firm combines the nece[r] ... See full document