This thesis empirically investigates the effects of agency problemson endogenous managerial effort, firm performance, corporatestructure and industry-wide productivity.In the second chapter, I develop an industrial evolution model withendogenous managerial effort and endogenous organizational...

This paper develops and estimates a structural model of production and inventory behavior for manufacturing plants in two Colombian industries, metal products and plastic product, from 1977 to 1991. Plant level decisions on production, inventories, sales, entry, and exit are developed using an...

In this thesis, I empirically investigate the selection process and the evolution of an industry in response to aggregate shocks.In the first essay (Chapter 2), I develop a new way to quantify the effects of import competition on intra-industry patterns of job creation and destruction and...

This dissertation develops dynamic stochastic models of heterogeneous firms in small open economies and uses them to analyze how firms' decisions are shaped by their participation in export markets and to understand the implications that these decisions have for firm-level volatility and the...