Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Issue Date
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Essays in Finance and Innovation
(2012-07-24)This dissertation consists of three essays on Finance and Innovation. The first essay argues that openness of research inputs can enable greater exploration of new research lines, particularly by academic researchers. We ... -
Three Essays on Credit Risk Models and Their Bayesian Estimation
(2012-07-24)This dissertation consists of three essays on credit risk models and their Bayesian estimation. In each essay, defaults or default correlation models are built under one of two main streams. In our first essay, sequential ... -
Essays on Financial Economics and Macroeconomics
(2012-07-24)The first chapter studies mass layoff decisions. Firms in the SP 500 often announce layoffs within days of one another, despite the fact that the average SP 500 constituent announces layoffs once every 5 years. By contrast, ... -
Essays in Political Methodology
(2012-07-24)This dissertation provides three novel methodologies to the field of political science. In the first chapter, I describe how to make causal inferences in the face of dynamic strategies. Traditional causal inference methods ... -
Statistical Methodology for Sequence Analysis
(2012-07-24)Rare disease variants are receiving increasing importance in the past few years as the potential cause for many complex diseases, after the common disease variants failed to explain a large part of the missing heritability. ... -
Soft Active Materials for Actuation, Sensing, and Electronics
(2012-07-24)Future generations of robots, electronics, and assistive medical devices will include systems that are soft and elastically deformable, allowing them to adapt their morphology in unstructured environments. This will require ... -
Near Shannon Limit and Reduced Peak to Average Power Ratio Channel Coded OFDM
(2012-07-24)Solutions to the problem of large peak to average power ratio (PAPR) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems are proposed. Although the design of PAPR reduction codewords has been extensively studied ... -
Essays on the Economics of the Family
(2012-07-25)This dissertation contains three essays analyzing how families form and how family members interact. The first chapter studies and connects recent trends in age at marriage and divorce. The second chapter looks within ... -
Essays in Labor Economics and Contract Theory
(2012-07-25)This dissertation consists of three essays in labor economics and contract theory. The first essay examines whether one’s wage is based on information about the performance of one’s personal contacts. I study wage determination ... -
Essays on the Economics of Climate Change
(2012-07-25)This dissertation studies three aspects of the economics of climate change: how rising sea levels will affect coastal homeowners in Florida; how changes in weather will affect the prevalence of crime in the United States; ... -
Essays on Causality, Race, and the Law
(2012-07-26)Making causal inferences about race is difficult because no means exist to manipulate units into treatment and control groups. Chapter 1 addresses this predicament. First, I argue that race should be defined as a composite ... -
Energetic Beam Processing of Silicon to Engineer Optoelectronically Active Defects
(2012-07-26)This thesis explores ways to use ion implantation and nanosecond pulsed laser melting, both energetic beam techniques, to engineer defects in silicon. These defects are chosen to facilitate the use of silicon in optoelectronic ... -
Essays in Microeconomic Theory
(2012-07-26)If the number of individuals is odd, Campbell and Kelly (2003) show that majority rule is the only non-dictatorial strategy-proof social choice rule on the domain of linear orders that admit a Condorcet winner, an alternative ... -
Essays in Development and Labor Economics
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Dimensions of Disadvantage: Normative and Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Public Insurance on Low-Income Children and Families
(2012-07-27)This dissertation considers some challenges to delivering effective and equitable health care to disadvantaged children and families in the United States. Chapter one examines whether expanded access to health insurance ... -
Designing and Probing Open Quantum Systems: Quantum Annealing, Excitonic Energy Transfer, and Nonlinear Fluorescence Spectroscopy
(2012-07-27)The 20th century saw the first revolution of quantum mechanics, setting the rules for our understanding of light, matter, and their interaction. The 21st century is focused on using these quantum mechanical laws to develop ... -
Studies on Synthesis, Structural and Electrical Properties of Complex Oxide Thin Films: Ba1-xSrxTiO3 and La2-xSrxNiO4
(2012-07-27)High performance miniaturized passives are of great importance for advanced nanoelectronic packages for several applications including efficient power delivery. Low cost thin film capacitors fabricated directly on package ... -
Dual Antibody Functionalized Polyvinyl Alcohol and Alginate Hydrogels for Synergistic Endothelial Cell Adhesion
(2012-07-27)Motivated by the need to design minimally-invasive treatments for wide-necked cerebral aneurysms, we used computational modeling to assess aneurysm hemodynamics, examined in vitro cellular responses arising from mechanical ... -
Essays on Time-Varying Discount Rates
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Encyclopaedism in the Mamluk Period: The Composition of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī’s (D. 1333) Nihāyat al-Arab fī Funūn al-Adab
(2012-08-03)This dissertation explores the emergence of a golden age of Arabic encyclopaedic literature in the scholarly centers of Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Empire (1250-1517). At the heart of the project is a study of Shihāb ...