Browsing by Author "Andrew F. Daughety"

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    • An Empirical Examination of Consumer Litigation Funding 
      Xiao, Jean Yujing (2017-03-30)
      Department: Law and Economics
      This dissertation is the first work to empirically examine a growing type of credit for cash-constrained tort plaintiffs called consumer litigation funding (“CLF”), which takes the form of a nonrecourse loan. A plaintiff ...
    • Economic and Empirical Analysis of Contractual Dispute Resolution 
      Miller, Samuel Mark (2015-04-08)
      Department: Law and Economics
      This dissertation uses Python-based programming to retrieve and analyze a sample of approximately 400,000 material contracts that companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission between 2001 and 2013, focusing ...
    • Essays in Financial Market Imperfections 
      Sengupta, Rajdeep (2006-06-30)
      Department: Economics
      A widely accepted feature of financial markets across the world is that there are limits to access credit. While this problem is extremely acute at times of economic crisis and recession, it is also prevalent at times of ...
    • Three Essays on Game Theory 
      Yilmazkuday, Demet (2011-08-08)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation consists of three studies on game theory. In the first study, we examine a sequential matching problem. In particular, we study preference restrictions to implement stable matchings in the equilibrium. ...
    • Topics in the design of an auction for licenses 
      Bagchi, Aniruddha (2006-07-07)
      Department: Economics
      I consider a situation wherein a research lab has developed a process innovation and wants to sell licenses to members of an industry. The literature has mostly considered the sale of exclusive licenses. I demonstrate, ...