• Empirical studies of consumer search and market power 

  Nah, Jia Sheen (2019)

  This thesis explores the interplay of search frictions and market power. In the first essay, we study how prices are negotiated between consumers and firms. In the electricity market that we study, with competitive ...

• Input-output linkages in growth and development 

  Hu, Hang (2019)

  Do input-output linkages impact growth and development? This dissertation provides three main chapters studying the role of input-output linkages in structural change and productivity measurement. I find that (i) input-output ...

• Empirical studies on firm-level productivity and innovation 

  Lim, William (2019)

  In Chapter 1, I define a novel concept of low productivity spells. Instead of treating productivity as a continuous variable, I define a low-productivity state as poor productivity growth over 2 years consecutively. This ...

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