I provide an explanation for the counter-cyclical price growth dispersion. I document two facts: (1) consumers switch more across sellers during a recession, and (2) sellers set higher prices after a growth in the customer ...

This dissertation studies the role of capital requirements in combating excessive risk-taking incentives of banks in two settings.

In this dissertation I use administrative tax data to evaluate two policies in the fields of low income housing and retirement. In particular, I construct novel data sets to assess whether growing up in housing constructed ...

Trade policies in developing countries have a significant impact on economic growth and welfare, especially after the trade liberation in China and India. The labor markets are highly influenced by different trade policies ...

In response to pressing needs and limited resources, public and private institutions have been established to support innovations for development - new processes, technologies, and delivery methods designed to reach the ...

When multi-product firms endogenously choose their product variety, mergers can have welfare effects that go well beyond their immediate impact through prices. The structural models needed to quantify these effects, however, ...

This dissertation consists of two unrelated topics in economics. One in economics of education and another one in political economy.

There is little debate that economic inequality is on the rise. Over the past six decades, both wealth and income have become more concentrated in fewer hands. According to recent data, the top 10 percent of income earners ...

The internet as a communication medium benefits internet users by providing experiences difficult or impossible to encounter in real life. Nonetheless, it can also limit individual exposure to homogeneous political viewpoints ...

Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in the Sub-Saharan African region, Ethiopia’s percentage of child labor remains high. Persistent poverty is considered as the most prominent factor causing the problem of ...