This dissertation explores how organic and sustainable claims affect prices and consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for food and beverage products in three separate papers. The first paper examines how organic, sustainable, ...

This dissertation consists of three studies on trade, industrial organization, and environmental economics. The first study investigates endogenous cartel formation with market entry and firm heterogeneity. We show why ...

In this dissertation, I explore how the incentives for firms to invest in green technology are affected by changes in market structure and regulation. In the first chapter, I use an entry-deterrence model in which the ...

This dissertation consists of three papers on industrial organization and environmental economics. The first paper analyzes a two-stage sequential-move model of location and pricing to identify firm's location, output, and ...

Abstract This dissertation includes three essays on the dynamic effects of fiscal policy, public infrastructure, and public R&D and heterogeneous labor. In the first essay, we develop and estimate a DSGE model in which ...

This dissertation discusses three topics in health economics focusing on consumer health decisions, as well as the application of econometric techniques to misclassified self-reported data. The first chapter attempts to ...

This dissertation consists of three chapters on empirical industrial organization and time series forecasting. In the first chapter, I evaluate the price effects of the 2010 United-Continental (UA-CO) merger in the U.S. ...

In this dissertation, I examine how countries respond to external and internal national security issues in the 21st Century. The first chapter analyzes European military expenditures with an emphasis on how European countries ...