Economics, School of: Recent submissions
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Essays on behavioral and experimental economics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-07-25)In this dissertation of three chapters, I study individuals’ strategic sophistication in decision-making, specifically level-k reasoning and forward-looking behavior. The first chapter studies subjects’ iterative reasoning ... -
Climate change, innovation, and inequality
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-10)This thesis consists of three essays on the interface of applied microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, with the common theme of studying the role of financing constraints in various economic issues. The first chapter ... -
Three essays on social institutions and individual behavior
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-05-02)This thesis studies the interactions between individual behavior and social institutions. The first chapter proposes a model of equilibrium switching in games with mul tiple strict Nash equilibria such as the evolution of ... -
Essays in development economics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-04-12)The thesis consists of four independent chapters, each of which investigates a distinct research question pertinent to development economics. The first chapter explores the effect of access to financial services on ... -
Essays on applied microeconomics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-01)This thesis comprises three essays within the field of applied microeconomics, with a focus on policy evaluation in China. The first chapter investigates the effect of the 2014 Selective Two Child Policy in China on ... -
Macroeconomics & inequality
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-31)This thesis explores inequality and its effects on the macroeconomy. Each chapter is concerned with heterogeneity between households or firms in some dimension: the first simply explores whether a standard model can ... -
Essays on wage determinants in the long and the short run
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-12-08)This thesis consists of three independent chapters, each of which studies the processes behind the determination of workers’ wages. The first chapter takes a long run perspective; it investigates the labour market ... -
Two models of institutional design in crime and education
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-10-13)This thesis consists of two chapters looking at elements of optimal institutional design. In Chapter two I present a model of Crime Deterrence. One of the most ubiquitous aspects of modern society is crime. Adherence ... -
Labour market extremes: a study of the high and low wage ends of the labour market
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-30)This thesis is comprised of three essays studying the high and low wage ends of the labour market. Historically there has been little theoretical analysis of low-paid, non-standard work and so in the first and third essays ... -
Essays on corruption and inequality
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-29)The first part of my thesis studies a problem in which a polluting firm can bribe an inspector to conceal evidence of illegal pollution. The government can deter bribes by rewarding the inspector to report the evidence, ... -
Essays on resource allocation, land investment and climate change in smallholder agriculture
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-23)In this thesis we investigate drivers of agricultural productivity in the context of rural smallholder farmers in low-income countries. In the first chapter we explore the link between climate change induced adverse ... -
Essays in development economics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-09)The thesis consists of three independent chapters, each of which investigates a distinct research question pertinent to development economics. The first chapter explores the influence of marketing pressure on targeted ... -
Essays on family economics and labour economics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)In this thesis I study various aspects within the field of family economics and labour economics, with a particular focus on the economic linkage between parents and children. In the first chapter, I aim to bring the ... -
Essays on inequality in human capital development
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)This thesis is comprised of three self-contained essays, each of which attempts to understand the early origins of inequality in “human capital”. Motivated by the unequal rise in rates of childhood obesity over the past ... -
Essays on labor-substituting technologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis studies the effects of automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies on the capital-labor elasticity of substitution over time and in the presence of intellectual property products (IPPs) ... -
Financial frictions, labour markets, and the macroeconomy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)In the first chapter, we use detailed Danish micro-data and study how a credit-driven boom in consumer demand affects firm dynamics. We exploit the introduction of interest-only mortgages in 2003 to establish a structural ... -
Essays on the selection and design of information structures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis consists of three chapters, each of which is a self-contained analysis of a distinct theoretical setting. The chapters are linked by the overarching theme of choices about information structures. In each, I ... -
Essays on collective bargaining, wage inequality and firm dynamics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In this thesis I study collective bargaining, wage inequality, firm dynamics and the ways in which they interact. In the first chapter I investigate the extent to which wages vary across different industries after ... -
Role of uncertainty, stress and failure in dietary and economic decision making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis studies how economic circumstances and psychological factors in the decision environment affect individuals’ behaviours and choices, particularly in the context of dietary and economic decisions. Using both ... -
Essays on dynamic procurement
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-15)This thesis studies the impact of uncertainty and its sequential resolution on the design of procurement mechanisms and, in particular, auctions. Procurement contracts constitute a considerable fraction of output in ...
