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 comprises of three essays related to real estate auctions:The first essay examines the increase in number of bidders on bidding behavior. In a standard auction, bidders bid more aggressively when the number of bidders increases. However, Krishna and Rosenthal (1996, Games and...

This thesis consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, we provide an explanation for the common observation in the market for upgrades, which is that firms tend to offer small upgrades very frequently instead of significant ones less frequently. We explain this problem using the...

The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate mortgage refinancing in the following three categories: refinancing and rate-and-point choice, refinancing and borrowers mortgage instrument choice, and estimating the market refinancing share of total mortgage origination volume. The choice of...

CHAPTER 1: Productivity Improvements and Falling Trade Costs: Boon or Bane?This essay looks at two features of globalization, namely, productivity improvements and falling trade costs, and explores their effect on welfare in a monopolistic competition model with heterogeneous firms and...

CHAPTER 1: Immiserizing Deindustrialization: A Dynamic Trade Model with Credit ConstraintsIn this essay I develop an open economy dynamic model with bequests and credit constraints. The agricultural sector uses only labor, the industrial sector needs an indivisible investment. Under autarky,...

This thesis consists of three essays focusing on time inconsistency in a game theoretic framework.The first essay studies an equilibrium concept for both one and two player extensive form games. The equilibrium concept, by construction, embraces different bounded rationality approaches in one...

This thesis consists of three essays.In the first essay, we examine the option compensation problem of how to optimally set the option exercise price when options have conflicting roles in both inducing management effort and encouraging management cheating. In the risk-neutral setting with both...