This thesis has three chapters on energy economics. The first compares two policies that govern oil and gas leasing in the American Southwest. The second provides an overview of fracking and economic research on fracking ...

The first chapter presents an empirical study of airline pricing. Airlines offer passengers different ways to fly from origin to destination via complex hub and spoke networks. Despite the increasing use of sophisticated ...

In this dissertation I explore the incentives and ability of the agent with informational superiority to polarize her rational audience. I explore this question in the context of strategic communication games. The first ...

In this dissertation, I explore how the gender wage gap across the distribution and different indicators of intergenerational mobility in education are impacted by sample selection. In the first chapter, I analyze the ...

In these essays, I analyze the implications of automation for labor markets in developing countries. The first two chapters aim to understand the dynamic consequences for firms and workers of adopting a new technology, ...

How does the cryptocurrency market react to unexpected global events? In this paper, we analyze the cryptocurrency market response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. The surprise timing and magnitude ...

Innovation in renewable energy technology can help combat climate change and help shift the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels. Public policy has played an important role in the development of these technologies. Past ...

The dissertation studies the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. The first chapter presents new empirical evidence that in the U.S., employment by younger and smaller firms responds more to monetary policy shocks ...

The first chapter studies the desk reject decisions using the submissions in one leading journal and matches the citations and publication records via Microsoft Academic. The result shows that the desk reject decisions are ...