This dissertation includes three essays on decision-making by boundedly rational economic agents. The first essay deals with decision-making by firms where decision-making is costly. The other two essays deal with decision-making by individuals. Taken together, the last two argue that...

The thesis shows two possible ways in which intergenerational redistributions associated with a reform from a comprehensive income tax to a direct consumption tax are affected when the standard models studying this phenomenon are extended.The usual models studying the welfare impact of a direct...

We first analyze a pure bargaining problem where n players can split a pie on a unanimous agreement. All players have the same utility function of the form $\delta s$ where $s$ is the share of a player and $\delta$ the discount factor. We present four simple bargaining processes where a player's...

This dissertation consists of three essays on the taxation of capital income. The first essay examines the effects of the interactions of home and host country tax provisions on capital investment decisions by a U.S. multinational before and after a capital-importing country switches from a...

This dissertation examines two separate issues concerning systems of demand equations. The first essay deals with the econometric implementation of demand systems and the second analyzes the demand for integer-ordered goods.In the first essay, we examine the consequences of adopting the random...

My dissertation consists of two unrelated essays. In the first essay, "Wage Subsidy in an Optimal Redistribution Program", I analyze the efficiency of income transfers and wage subsidies as instruments of income redistribution in an optimal taxation framework. I extend the Mirrlees model (1971)...

This dissertation develops efficient semiparametric estimation of parameters and expectations in dynamic nonlinear systems and analyzes the role of environmental factors in productivity growth accounting.The first essay considers the estimation of a general class of dynamic nonlinear systems....