Despite calls for more integrated residual management, research on the performance of methods to regulate pollution has paid little attention to cases of multiple pollutant control. This study helps rectify this omission in multiple ways. In Chapter 1 I describe the many issues that arise in the...

For the past three decades, a wide variety of cryptographic protocols have been proposed to solve secure communication problems even in the presence of adversaries. The range of this work varies from developing basic security primitives providing confidentiality and authenticity to solving more...

Chapter 1: Efficient Design of an Auction with Discrete Bid Levels This paper studies one of auction design issues: the choice of bid levels. Full efficiency is generally unachievable with a discrete auction. Since there may be more than one bidder who submits the same bid, the auction cannot...

This dissertation aims to contribute to our understanding of dynamic interaction in duopoly markets. Chapter 1 motivates the study and offers a brief overview of the results.In Chapter 2 I study the dynamic equilibrium of a market characterized by repeat purchases. Such markets exhibit two...

When selling divisible goods such as energy contracts or emission allowances, should the entire supply be auctioned all at once or should it be spread over a sequence of auctions? How does the expected revenue in a sequence of uniform price auctions compare to the expected revenue in a single...

This dissertation presents a behavioral model of employee ownership and an experimental examination of the model. Chapter 1 reviews literature on employee ownership, gift-exchange, social preferences in experimental economics, and in-group bias. The model of employee ownership, presented in...

In this dissertation, a state-contingent, principal-agent model is developed to examine the institution of input provision by a corporate firm that contracts with agents for the production of a given commodity. "Input provision" entails not only the provision and delivery of key inputs by the...

There is a growing number of studies that investigate the effect of trade liberalization on productivity and nearly all assume that trade policy is independently determined of productivity, hence it is exogenous. I show that this assumption is generally invalid both theoretically and...