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    • Lashkarbolookie, Mohammad (2026)
      This thesis studies the welfare implications of regulatory shifts in the information structure of markets. The central question is whether, and under what conditions, they can raise welfare. The unifying message is that ...
    • Arora, Madhav (2026)
      My thesis both develops and applies representation learning to three problems in marketing strategy. In the first chapter, I train transformer-based representations of individual donors to solve an identification problem ...
    • Welke, Lina Marie (2026)
      The rapid diffusion of digital platforms has placed user-generated content (UGC) at the center of managerial decision-making. Consumers voluntarily produce vast quantities of reviews, ratings, images, and social media ...
    • Khribch, El Mahdi (2026)
      Bayesian computation faces a recurring difficulty: outside a few special cases the posterior cannot be computed in closed form, and inference must proceed through approximations, Monte Carlo sampling or variational ...
    • Tang, Patrick (2026)
      This thesis studies the flexibility and practical relevance of Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods as a unified computational framework for financial econometrics. It shows how a single inferential paradigm can address ...
    • Hajighasemi, Mohammadhesam (2026)
      The importance of digital conversational agents has been rising recently, with many companies adopting AI-driven agents to handle business inquiries and to facilitate daily interactions with customers. Given the individuals’ ...
    • Berrou, Maxime (2025)
      This thesis is organized in three chapters. The first chapter is titled “The Effects of Tariff Liberalization on Informality" and is co-written with Pamela Bombarda and Maria Bas. This chapter illustrates how trade modifies ...
    • de Villeneuve Bargemon, Mahaut (2026)
      This thesis explores how incomplete information shapes both environmental policies and market outcomes. Across three chapters, it investigates different situations of informational asymmetries – between regulators, ...
    • Gomes de Oliveira, Raphael (2025)
      This thesis contributes to the field of Normative Economic Theory by applying formal economic models to inform philosophical debates on social welfare, rationality and measurements of inequality. It is composed of three ...
    • Tröbinger, Matthias (2025)
      This dissertation is grounded in a strong curiosity about how effective collaborative problem-solving can be facilitated in decentralized contexts. My interest in collective intelligence, participatory democracy through ...
    • Tan, Hui (2025)
      This dissertation, “Regulatory Interventions and Market Dynamics, consists of three essays that examine the interplay between regulatory interventions and capital markets, with a focus on information disclosure, debt ...
    • Song, Yujie (2024)
      This thesis consists of three essays that address questions in the intersection of finance and accounting research, financial analysts’ performance, and corporate disclosure strategies. Collectively, the three essays delve ...
    • Iung Mathurin, Hélène (2025)
      This thesis consists of three essays that address questions related to challenges in the field of Sustainable Finance. Chapter 1 quantifies the salience of greenwashing in U.S. media coverage and studies its implications. ...
    • Ghosh, Rajarshi (2025)
      This thesis develops two new democratic voting mechanisms that allow voters to express their cardinal preferences and obtain outcomes that maximize social welfare. The advantage of these mechanisms is that, unlike much ...
    • Zhang, Xiaowei (2025)
      This dissertation examines how large-scale policy and institutional changes reshape gender dynamics, household behavior, and local development in China and India. Across three papers, I study how fertility control campaigns, ...
    • Na, Menglong (2025)
      ESG investing is a major trend in the financial market. However, investors have heterogeneous preferences and beliefs when engaging in ESG investing. My dissertation studies how these heterogeneities affect investors’ ...
    • Kravchenko, Anna (2025)
      Our world today is fraught with grand challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and socioeconomic inequalities. Recognizing this, scholars acknowledge that organizations in their different forms not only ...
    • Ma, Hao (2025)
      My dissertation investigates the intersection of labor and accounting, with a focus on key individuals in capital markets, such as Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and financial analysts. It contains three chapters. ...
    • Long, Xin (2025)
      This thesis studies the spillover effects of U.S. dollar liquidity on non-U.S. firms and countries and the factor affecting dollar liquidity access for borrowers outside the United States. In particular, I exploit the ...
    • Wang, Mo (2025)
      This thesis explores various topics in empirical asset pricing, focusing on mispricing in option and equity markets, as well as the use of large language models (LLMs) in return prediction. Chapter 1 investigates mispricing ...