Browsing by Author "Andrew Daughety"

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    • Essays in Consumer Finance: Bankruptcy and Fringe Banking 
      Carter, Susan Payne (2012-04-09)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation consists of three essays related to consumer financial issues of often struggling and low-income populations. The first chapter studies the joint use of payday loans and pawnshop loans. While these two ...
    • Essays on Consumer Finance: Topics in Auto Title Lending 
      Fritzdixon, Kathryn Louise (2015-03-30)
      Department: Economics
      Title lending, in which a borrower uses his car title as collateral for a short-term, high-interest loan, is a growing part of the alternative financial market. These loans provide credit to a group of American who are not ...
    • Essays on economic incentives related to the law 
      Ferrer, Rosa (2009-04-08)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay studies the problem of optimal law enforcement when individuals violating the law generate positive externalities for other violators. These externalities ...
    • Essays on Institutions of International Trade 
      Beshkar, Mostafa (2008-07-31)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation is an economic analysis of the legal aspects of international trade institutions. In particular, I analyze the system of remedies, the role of a court for international trade disputes, and settlement ...
    • Essays on the Interaction of Product Characteristics, Consumer Heterogeneity, and Information 
      Bailey, Roger Allen (2013-10-07)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation addresses three related questions. The second chapter models a monopolist with private information about her product, over which consumers have heterogeneous preferences. Consumers may incur an audit ...
    • Seller Pricing Behavior in Auction and Posted-Price Markets 
      Hammond, Robert G. (2008-12-08)
      Department: Economics
      Why do some sellers auction their goods, while other sellers post a fixed price? My dissertation investigates this question using theoretical, empirical, and experimental methodologies. The first chapter takes the competitive ...
    • Strategic Equilibrium in Social Networks and Games: Theory and Applications 
      Groenert, Valeska (2009-07-19)
      Department: Economics
      The following is an outline of the four chapters of this dissertation. Chapter 1 shows that subgame perfect equilibrium and weak perfect Bayesian equilibrium require rationality at information sets that are irrelevant for ...