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Essays in Banking and Finance
(2014-07-15)This dissertation examines the design of regulation for financial institutions fol- lowing the financial crisis of 2008-2009. In the aftermath of the crisis, regulators in many countries tightened regulations governing ... -
Essays in dynamic optimal taxation: working experience, unemployment scarring and poverty
(2016-06-27)This thesis investigates the design of optimal tax systems in dynamic environments. The first essay characterizes the optimal tax system where wages depend on stochastic shocks and work experience. In addition to redistributive ... -
Essays in International Capital Flows and Capital Controls
In this dissertation, I first explore the effects of categories of capital inflows on output volatility and output growth in developing countries and propose a welfare-improving capital control policy. I provide empirical ... -
Essays in Monetary Policy and Banking
(2014-02-03)This dissertation investigates the impact of central banks' asset purchase programs on the economy and the role of frictions in the corporate loan markets. It builds a series of models with trading and information frictions ... -
The Essays of the Literary Society, Read in Montreal during the winter of 1880-81.
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Essays on Commitment and Optimal Public Policies
(2012-12-12)We focus on the design of optimal policies in the event of commitment problems. In the first essay, we characterize how income should be redistributed within and across generations. The time-inconsistency problem arises ... -
Essays on Commodity Price Shocks, Bank Risk and Market Volatility Forecasting
My dissertation has three main chapters. Chapter 2 develops a structural dynamic factor model that estimates the effects of commodity price shocks on the Canadian macroeconomy, bank lending and bank risk. Unlike most ... -
Essays on Corporate Governance
(2013-07-26)In this thesis I investigate the economic determinants and consequences of corporate governance (broadly defined) in Canadian “comply or explain” governance disclosure regime. I find that the quality of governance in firms ... -
Essays on Decision Making with Information and Action Externalities
(2012-07-05)In this thesis, I investigate the behavior of rational individuals making decisions involving externalities and explain why seemingly irrational behavior can be the result of the decisions of rational individuals. In ... -
Essays on Economics of Entrepreneurship
(2016-08-15)This dissertation examines three important issues. The first issue is about the human capital investment and entrepreneurship as a career choice. The standard human capital theory shows that firms (employees) never invest ... -
Essays on Financial Economics
This thesis contains three essays spanning the fields of financial market microstructure and empirical finance. The first essay focuses on reviewing the recent key innovations in trading technology–high frequency trading. I ... -
Essays on Firm Heterogeneity with Empirical Applications in Economic History and Agricultural Economics
(2016-05-24)This thesis uses models of firm-heterogeneity to complete empirical analyses in economic history and agricultural economics. In Chapter 2, a theoretical model of firm heterogeneity is used to derive a statistic that ... -
Essays on Inflation and Output: A Search-Theoretic Approach
(2010-07-19)This dissertation examines the welfare effects of inflation on employment and output in three different market settings. The theoretical frameworks build on recent studies in the monetary search literature that explicitly ... -
Essays on Least Squares Model Averaging
(2013-07-17)This dissertation adds to the literature on least squares model averaging by studying and extending current least squares model averaging techniques. The first chapter reviews existing literature and discusses the contributions ... -
ESSAYS ON MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOUR, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INFORMATION RISK
(2012-08-22)This three-essay dissertation first examines the impact of tax enforcement on the incidence of stock option backdating. Consistent with the theoretical prediction that tax authority enforcement can operate as a valuable ... -
Essays on Networks and Macroeconomics
(2015-07-17)This thesis consists of three essays related by the themes of networks and macroeconomics. The first essay examines the role of networks in workers’ search for employment. Unemployed workers gain employment by sending ... -
Essays on Organizational Decline
(2015-08-10)The purpose of this thesis is to understand how organizations manage decline, focusing on the role of management accounting. In the first study, I investigate the role of management accounting in organizations that experience ...