My dissertation examines issues related to the management of workers under new technological advances or regulations. The dissertation is divided into three parts.The first part focuses on dispute management in online gig platforms. Traditionally, disputes between a worker (freelancer) and a...

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are the dominant firm type in the global electricity sector. Given their prevalence, the acquisition of new electricity generation technologies by these firms, could have vast implications for electricity supply, economic growth, greenhouse-gas emissions and the...

In chapter 1, I study the experimentation dynamics of a decision maker (DM) in a two-armed bandit setup ([5]), where the agent holds ambiguous beliefs regarding the distribution of the return process of one arm and is certain about the other one. The DM entertains Multiplier preferences a la...

The dissertation studies three seemly independent topics on environmental economics, but they share the same theme: the reactions of local governments and firms on promotional incentives and environmental regulations in China.The first chapter examines whether China’s Two Control Zone policy...

This dissertation consists of two projects, both concerned with how social networks form and how they affect economic decisions. In the first project, entitled Identifying Influential Agents in a Social Network, I define influence centrality, a new measure of influence which combines information...