technological capabilities or not. I predict and find that in low complementarity contexts, as technology advances, customer demand …

dissertation investigates the complementarity relationship between information technology (IT) use and project execution processes … complementarity relationship. Topics within this dissertation are investigated with both quantitative and qualitative approaches …. Using capital projects data, evidence of complementarity is established quantitatively between general use of IT and best …

other hand, have not been successful in incorporating both individual rationality and inter-individual heterogeneity …

incorporatingunobserved firm-level heterogeneity using techniques from Arcidiacono and Miller (2007). I use publicly available panel data on … heterogeneity as an unobserved state that raises a firm's research productivity. In my analysis, I find that increased investment in …

Heterogeneity in measurement model parameters across known groups can be modeled and tested using multigroup … characteristics to capture heterogeneity and have the potential to be used to test measurement invariance. The current study … sample sizes, more noninvariant factor loadings, and larger amounts of heterogeneity are needed to distinguish different …

. Agent heterogeneity and market frictions are necessary to account for these facts. Chapter two introduces a two-sided search … model with ex-ante heterogeneity that generates within-skill wage differences and skill-related unemployment duration. The … result in more or less unemployment as well as in better or worse sorting of skills. Consequently, the size of the pie - the …

This thesis presents a collection of essays about Public Economics and individual heterogeneity. The essays are …