This thesis examines the effect of pressure on a sample of highly-trained individuals in a simple strategic setting. By modelling the strategic interaction between servers and receivers in professional tennis matches, ...

This thesis uses economic experiments to contribute to the literature on belief elicitation and learning. Belief elicitation helps researchers disentangle the ways that preferences and beliefs jointly govern the decision-making ...

Pricing and hedging early-exercise financial derivatives has long been a challenging problem for both industrial practitioners and academic researchers. Especially, when the driving dynamics are of path-dependence and high ...

This thesis studies momentum and the behavioral implications of leading and lagging in multi-stage tournaments. More specifically, it tests the predicted outcomes of best-of-k tournaments using two contrasting theories of ...

This thesis studies the informational effects of trade networks from an aggregated viewpoint. A recent literature shows that an enhanced trade network can allow a firm to lower informational frictions, leading to significant ...

This thesis consists of three essays on financial literacy and financial decision-making. Chapter 2 investigates how financial sophistication affects (i) the average active superannuation investment allocation and (ii) the ...

This thesis examines three topics in network economics. Chapter 2 is motivated by the fact that many countries adopt ad hoc industrial policies without evaluating their overall impacts. This is particularly problematic ...

Almost all existing copula models use copula functions to capture cross-sectional dependence. Instead, this thesis explores using copula functions to capture serial dependence. The advantage of doing this, is that the ...

Amounts paid at random times occur in many financial models. This thesis studies the renewal sum of the discounted value of amounts paid over a finite or infinite time period, assuming that amounts are paid at renewal ...

This thesis comprises three self-contained chapters. Each chapter is linked through the common motivation of understanding fluctuations in aggregate economic activity. Sectors with higher separation rates have a larger ...