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Models of Supply Function Equilibrium with Applications to the Electricity Industry

Aromi, Jose Daniel - 2007

Electricity market design requires tools that result in a better understanding of incentives of generators and consumers. Chapter 1 and 2 provide tools and applications of these tools to analyze incentive problems in electricity markets.In chapter 1, models of supply function equilibrium (SFE)...

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Competing or Collaborating Siblings? An Investigation of the Relationship between Industrial and Trade Policies

Sharma, Gunjan - 2006

This dissertation investigates the relationship between industrial and trade policies and their impact on firm-level incentives to become more productive. In Chapter two we use a two-sector growth model and show that the impact of a rise in competition in the intermediate goods sector (that...

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Assessment of Productive Efficiency of Airports

Pathomsiri, Somchai - 2006

The move towards commercialization and privatization has pressured airports to become more productive and competitive. The need to devise an overall (total) productivity measure is increasingly important in airport business. The dissertation made three major research contributions. First, it...

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MARRIAGE MARKETS, DIFFERENTIAL FECUNDITY AND SEARCH

Giolito, Eugenio Pedro - 2004

It is commonly observed that over time and across societies, women tend to marry older men. The traditional explanation for this phenomenon is that wages increase with age and hence older men are more attractive in the marriage market. The model developed in Chapter 2 of this dissertation shows...

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PRIVATIZATION AND NEW ENTRY IN POST-COMMUNIST TRANSITION: THE IMPACT ON RESTRUCTURING

Vlasenko, Polina - 2004

new businesses is threatening to the inefficient existing enterprises, managers of these enterprises have an incentive to … second chapter presents an analytical model that investigates the conditions under which managers of the existing enterprises … to explore whether the threat of new entry induces managers of the existing firms to lobby with politicians, resulting in …

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Essays in Trade and Development

Roy, Devesh - 2004

This dissertation involves two set of papers. The first chapter contains a brief introduction of the issues covered in this thesis. In the first set of papers (chapters 2 and 3) I investigate the use of product standards in international trade. Product standards relate to restrictions on the...

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Essays on Exchange-Rate-Based Stabilization Under Fiscal Constraints

Gueorguiev, Nikolay Kirov - 2004

Exchange-rate-based inflation stabilization programs cause a sizable loss of inflation tax revenue and thus open a fiscal gap. The stabilization literature usually assumes that this gap can be closed by raising lump-sum (nondistortionary) taxes and/or cutting lump-sum transfers. As such policies...

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Towards Adequate Analysis and Modeling of Structural Adjustment Programs: An Analytical Framework with Application to Ghana

Kraev, Egor - 2004

When a country experiences a balance of payments problem, the typical remedy mix proposed by the International Monetary Fund consists of fiscal austerity, tight monetary policies, devaluation, privatization, elimination of subsidies and trade liberalization, combined with low interest rate...

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Essays on Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship

Rasteletti, Alejandro Gabriel - 2009

This dissertation consists of three chapters studying different issues related to self-employment and entrepreneurship. The first chapter studies the effects of labor market frictions and credit constraints in an economy with self-employment. Two types of self-employed workers emerge in the...

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ESSAYS ON HOUSING INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING MARKETS

Qi, Zhikun - 2009

New residential construction is significantly more procyclical in emerging markets than in developed countries, although the correlation between aggregate investment and output is similar across emerging and developed countries. This paper shows that a multi-sector stochastic growth model with a...

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