Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Graduate Alumni
Essays on Law and Economics
Estes, Matthew ・ PhD ・ 2026
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Large-Scale Computational Phenotyping of Social Cognition in Autism
Wu, Qianying ・ PhD ・ 2026
Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph
An Exploration of the Tangible and Intangible in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher
Avanesov, Katherine “Katia” ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy A.; Holland, Jocelyn
Excerpts From the Collection “Mother and Father”
Cap, Chi ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays in Experimental Economics
Detkova, Polina ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Agranov, Marina
Core Reinforcement Learning Computations Underlying Distinct Behavioral Strategies and their Implications in Psychiatry
Ding, Weilun ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.
Essays in Matching Theory
Doe, Peter Nathanael ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Echenique, Federico; Pomatto, Luciano
Essays on Sequential Sampling in Value-Based Choice
Eum, Brenden ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Rangel, Antonio
Tensions, Trade, and Transformation: Essays on Chinese Economic History During the Warlord Era
Feng, Kexin ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Beyond the Battleground: T.H. Huxley’s Complex Vision of Science and Religion in Victorian Britain
Kottom, Luke ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Wey-Gomez, Nicolas
Essays on Political Accountability and Representation
Morrier, Jacob ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Psychological Insights into Decisions Relevant to Public Policy
Nazareth Gallo, Marcos Felipe ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
A Forgotten Flame
Ratala, Sreeyutha ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance
Shi, Ke ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent; Shum, Matthew S.
The Good Life+: Well-Being in Virtual Worlds
Speer, Edward ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Quartz, Steven R.
Dot, Letter, Legend: Johann Bayer’s Graphic Code
Taveira, Mariana Vale ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Gaida, Margaret
From Carbon to Silicon: A Philosophical Case for Surviving Through Mind Uploading
Taveira, Mariana Vale ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Hitchcock, Christopher
Reliable Unreliability – Narrative Bias in Autofiction
Won, Elizabeth ・ Other ・ 2025
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy; Holland, Jocelyn
Essays on Information Economics
Wu, Fan ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: Tamuz, Omer
Neurocomputational Understanding of Decision-Making in Novel Environments
Yi, Sanghyun ・ PhD ・ 2025
Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.
Mountains of Self: Dream Revelations Transcending Frame Narratives
Davis, Grace ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Holland, Jocelyn
Unexpected Partisan Unity Among Congressional Leaders and Legislators Using New Latent Variable Estimation Techniques and Frameworks
Ebanks, Daniel C. ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays in Behavioral Economics and Game Theory
Fong, Meng-Jhang ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Agranov, Marina
Reputation and Accountability
Gailmard, Lindsey Anne ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Hirsch, Alexander V.
Essays on Rational Social Learning
Huang, Wanying ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Tamuz, Omer
Institutional Design of Criminal Justice Processes
Huey, Joanna Nanami ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Hirsch, Alexander V.
Dear Goose
Kim, Joseph Hakkyu ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Limning Asian American Literature with Social Generationality: Violence and Subversion
Kim, Joseph Hakkyu ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Murphy, Dana
Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization
Kobayashi, Shunto Jerry ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Shum, Matthew S.
Beowulf and the Moral Dilemma Between Kingship and Heroism
Kulkarni, Shrishti Pankaj ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Jahner, Jennifer A.
Essays on Trustworthy Online Platforms
Li, Zhuofang ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
The Paradox of Authentic Happiness and Existential Suffering
Liaw, Sarah Yuan Ni ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Quartz, Steven R.
Essays in Behavioral Game Theory Solution Concepts
Lin, Po-Hsuan ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Decision-Making Under Risk
Lucia, Aldo ・ PhD ・ 2024
Advisor: Sprenger, Charles D.; Agranov, Marina; Pomatto, Luciano
Characterizing the Molecular Structure of Preceramic Polysiloxanes for Freeze Casting of Silicon Oxycarbide Ceramics
Nandi, Ankita ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Faber, Katherine T.; Rossman, George Robert
Thinking Queerness and Forming Intimacies: Understanding Identity, Relationships, and Queerness in South Asian Diasporic Contemporary Literature, 1981–2022
Nandi, Ankita ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2024
Advisor: Murphy, Dana
Qital and Jihad: The Faces of Holy War in Islam
Nkurumeh, Emeka ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
The Woman Who Waits No More
Redmond, Heidi ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Jahner, Jennifer A.; Pigman, George W., III
The Angel
Sharkey, Domani ・ Other ・ 2024
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Michéline
Abellard, Darleine ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Murphy, Dana
Essays in Mechanism Design and Contest Theory
Goel, Sumit ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Essays in Health Economics
Guth, Daniel Robert ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Essays on Social Learning and Social Choice
Hann-Caruthers, Wade Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Tamuz, Omer
Who’s Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Visions of Urban Progress in Los Angeles Chinatown, 1970-2020
Jiang, Abigail Yuan-Shan ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2023
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Computational Methods in the Study of Political Behavior
Kann, Claudia Kenyon ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
The Influence of Négritude and Black Postcolonial Thought on Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Play
Kunnam, Shwetha S. ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Jahner, Jennifer A.; Pigman, George W., III
The Reproduction of Homosocial Domesticity Aboard the Pequod in Melville’s Moby Dick
Liu, Grace ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy A.
“It’s Our War Too”: Barriers to Authorship by Women Writing Vietnam War Poetry
Liu, Grace ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2023
Advisor: Jurca, Catherine
Dismantling The Help: The Hollywoodization of The Civil Rights Movement in 1963
Mendoza, Aramis Josephine ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Thabet, Andrea
Good Expectations: The Paradox of Expecting Great Things
Mendoza, Lark ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Dance Before the Music Stops
Sui, Margaret Yanzhu ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
The Chinese Room Argument
Tibrewal, Vansh ・ Other ・ 2023
Advisor: Hitchcock, Christopher R.
Essays in Behavioral Economics
Zeidel, Jeffrey Roy ・ PhD ・ 2023
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing
Cheng, Myra Miaobo ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2022
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Titanium Is My Favorite Metal Because It Is the Hardest Metal
DeBell, Lily ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Agency Problems in Political Science
Devdariani, Saba ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Hirsch, Alexander V.
Surveying Notions of Queer Asian American Community Through Literature: 1972–1998
Du, Yun Emily ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2022
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
The Development of the Research Journal and the Prehistory of Peer Review in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Gorokhovsky, Elia Peter ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: Feingold, Mordechai
Controlling the Female Body: Obsession and Loss of Autonomy in Lolita and “Berenice”
Lee, Margaret Rachel ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy A.
Three Essays on Survey Methods and their Applications to Measuring Political Behavior and Attitudes
Li, Yimeng ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Happiness is Hedonic: In Defense of a Subjective Account of Well-Being
Palumbo, Elsa K. ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: Quartz, Steven R.
The Claytons
Sui, Margaret Yanzhu ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Towards “Race-Conscious” Medical AI
Sundaresan, Avirath ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: LeBlanc, Hannah F.
WALL-E Wisdom: Lessons for Public Policy in the Age of AI
Sundaresan, Avirath ・ Other ・ 2022
Advisor: Sebens, Charles T.
Three Essays in Applied Economics
Zhang, Shiyu ・ PhD ・ 2022
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Unravel at the Seams
Basava, Hrishika ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Investigating Drivers of Repeated Behaviors in Field Data
Buyalskaya, Anastasia ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Messy Definitions and Blurred Lines: Marriage, Autonomy, and Reconciliation in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
Chan, Andrew M. ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Koch, Jonathan
The Relevance of Jazz in Modern Historiography
Chun, Bradley (Kaulana) ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Navigating the Temporal Landscape of Trauma
Hu, Laura D. ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2021
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy A.
History of Hearing Aids
Hwang, Saehui ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Zwisler, Laila
Attention, Strategy, and the Human Mind
Li, Xiaomin ・ PhD ・ 2021
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Ahab’s Solipsism and the Illusion of Self-Reliance: The Career of Herman Melville
Liu, Victoria ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Weinstein, Cindy A.
Poetry Pieces
Mudide, Shiva ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Fairness, Morality, and Pursuing an Ideal System of Distributive Justice
White, Ryan P. ・ Other ・ 2021
Advisor: Quartz, Steven R.
Charles the Bald: the Story of an Epithet
Anderson, Margaret Audrey ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
Archetypes of Femininity in Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Kanrar, Nivedita ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Pigman, George W., III
Three Essays in the Dynamics of Political Behavior
Kim, Seo-young Silvia ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Katz, Jonathan N.; Alvarez, R. Michael
“On Lily Bart’s Specializations and Survival in the Upper Class”: What Women Want: Desire and the Modern American Novel
Liu, Victoria ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Jurca, Catherine
The Evolution of Dragons: From Living Serpents to Mythical Beasts
Lopezalles, Sierra MacKenzie ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2020
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
Essays on Social Learning and Networks
Martynov, Vadim Vadimovich ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Tamuz, Omer
Exogenesis
Nuzen, Melba ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Utilitarian Calculations and the Moral Status of Strong AI
Palumbo, Elsa K. ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
“Otherness”: Examining the Relationship Between Human and Non-Human
Pham, Karen V. ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul
maybe i thought growing up would be more glamourous
Pham, Karen V. ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Lewis, Nathan Saul
Decision Making Under Threat: An Ecological Framework
Qi, Song ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Mobbs, Dean
Essays on Market Design and Industrial Organization
Robinson Cortés, Alejandro ・ PhD ・ 2020
Advisor: Shum, Matthew S.
What Criteria Should be Used to Determine Whether an Automated Decision Procedure is Fair?
de Mello, Lucca Sukman ・ Other ・ 2020
Advisor: Eberhardt, Frederick
New Perspectives in Political Communication
Adams-Cohen, Nicholas Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Prodigal
Chatterjee, Mohar ・ Other ・ 2019
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
A History of Budgetary Politics in the United States
Daghlian, George Heros ・ Other ・ 2019
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
When I Learned to be Meek
De Angelis, Maria ・ Other ・ 2019
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Caught in the Middle: Homosexual Guilt, Liminality, and the role of the ‘Novel of Identification’ in Post-World War, Pre-Stonewall America
Goulet, Michael Anthony ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Sherazi, Melanie; Haugen, Kristine L.
Essays On Decision Theory
Hamze Bajgiran, Hamed ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Impassioned Love and Marriage in Shakespeare’s Comedies
Hollaway, Brendan J. ・ Other ・ 2019
Recollected Sanity
Liang, Crystal ・ Other ・ 2019
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Understanding How People Make Trait Attributions from Faces
Lin, Chujun ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Adolphs, Ralph
Town Meeting: A Representative but Non-Sovereign Institution
Lymperopoulos-Bountalis, Filippos ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2019
Advisor: Dykstra, Maura
Electromagnetism is Time Reversible and the Magnetic Field is a Dynamical Condition
Maskara, Nishad ・ Other ・ 2019
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
The Spectre of Race
Olaya Medina, Diego Francisco ・ Other ・ 2019
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays on Economics of Groundwater Resource Management
Zhao, Hao ・ PhD ・ 2019
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Computational and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making in Humans
Adachi, Ryo ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: O’Doherty, John P.
Moral Distinctions between Passive and Active Euthanasia
Chan, Jonathan Kai Shun ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Hitchcock, Christopher R.
Essays on Early-Stage Financing and Firm Behavior
Chen, Jun ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Ewens, Michael J.; Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Essays in Market Design
Fernandez, Marcelo Ariel ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
The Role of Human Emotion and Character in Shakespeare’s Othello vs. God and Heaven in Cinthio’s “A Moorish Captain”
Gulati, Reeti Kiran ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Finding Clementia - Excerpt
Hu, Laura D. ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Image of a Dragonfly
Hu, Laura D. ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
The Gun Wa Trials: Chinese Doctors, Narrative Advertisement, and Consumer Fraud in the Late Nineteenth Century American West
Li, Jessica Du ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Gronningsater, Sarah
Why Was The Feminine Mystique Such a Phenomenon?: A Clarification
Liang, Crystal ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
iLost: A Tale for our Time
Liu, Timothy Samuel ・ Other ・ 2018
An Exploration of Letter-Writing in Jane Austen’s Work
Nair, Maitreyi A. ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Gilmartin, Kevin M.
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Observational Studies of Political Behavior
Núñez, Lucas ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
What Makes a Narrative? Understanding the Portrayals of Hermenegild’s Rebellion
Schmidt, William Charles ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
A Case for Ecclesiastical Minting of Anglo-Viking Coins
Schneider, Joseph Edward ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2018
Advisor: Brown, Warren C.
Why Cervantes’ History is His Story
Shankar, Tara Anjali ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Wey-Gómez, Nicolas
Three Essays on Mechanism Design
Song, Li ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Yariv, Leeat
Essays on Investor Beliefs and Asset Pricing
Sui, Pengfei ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Jin, Lawrence Jiaqi; Cvitanić, Jakša
Information and Strategic Decision-Making in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Empirical Assessment
Zhang, Mali ・ PhD ・ 2018
Advisor: Shum, Matthew S.
Why the Turing Test Revised is Still the Turing Test
von Ruden, Galilea Bascara ・ Other ・ 2018
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Chaucer the Beginner: Imagining Chaucer’s Creative Process in Creating “Book of the Duchess”
Edwards, Matthew Gene ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2017
Advisor: Jahner, Jennifer A.
Living with Sisyphus
Grover, Kshitij ・ Other ・ 2017
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Gaudy Night Essay
Kaczmarek, Zofii A. ・ Other ・ 2017
The Rhetoric of Change
Lin, Christina Y. ・ Other ・ 2017
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays on Information Collection
Mayskaya, Tatiana S. ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Insect Sisyphus
McAndrew, Daniel E. ・ Other ・ 2017
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Objects of Interpretation in Othello
Nety, Suchita Patil ・ Other ・ 2017
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
on loving a fallen star
Pham, Karen V. ・ Other ・ 2017
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays on the Political Economy of Subnational Public Finances
Rosado Buenfil, Welmar Eduardo ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
The Women of Othello: Shakespeare’s Reinterpretation of “A Moorish Captain”
Shastri, Gauri Ganesh ・ Other ・ 2017
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays on the Impact of Information Asymmetry
Song, Myungkoo ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Cvitanić, Jakša
Essays on Matching Theory
Zhang, Jun ・ PhD ・ 2017
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Fifty Years of Dividing Lines: From Selma and Montgomery, 1965 to Ferguson, 2015
Balestri, Leonardo ・ Other ・ 2016
Advisor: Kousser, J. Morgan
Silent Goodbyes
Han, Sirus Kujung ・ Other ・ 2016
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
A Can of Worms
Hoza, William Michael ・ Other ・ 2016
Essays in Economic History and Applied Microeconomics
Huang, Yifei ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Essays in Revealed Preference Theory and Behavioral Economics
Imai, Taisuke ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Empiricism and Mathematical Knowledge
Leeper, Gideon Jack ・ Other ・ 2016
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Encounter
Lim, Matthew J. ・ Other ・ 2016
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays in Econometrics and Political Economy
Montero, Sergio ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Shum, Matthew S.; Snowberg, Erik
Three Essays on Inequality and Political Economy
Myers, Samantha Louise ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
Mechanisms Underlying Economic Choice
Nave, Gideon ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Feminine Intellectual Fertility in the Writing of Christine de Pizan
Nety, Suchita Patil ・ Other ・ 2016
Advisor: Jahner, Jennifer A.
Essays on Social Networks and Political Economy
Shin, Euncheol ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Yariv, Leeat
Essays in Behavioral Decision Theory
Tserenjigmid, Gerelt ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Three Essays on Information Economics
Zhang, Qiaoxi ・ PhD ・ 2016
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Everybody Farts: Celebrating the Body and Refuting Medical Paternalism in Joyce’s Ulysses
Ann, Phoebe ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2015
Advisor: Gilmartin, Kevin M.
Three Essays on Economics and Information Shocks
Carlson, Kyle Ian ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
How Behavioral Economics Can Shape Firm Strategy and Public Policy: Lessons from the Field and Laboratory
Chao, Matthew C. ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Death or Taxes? The Political Economy of Sanitation Expenditure in Nineteenth Century Britain
Chapman, Jonathan Neil ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Hoffman, Philip T.
That Friday
Chen, Anthony Fu ・ Other ・ 2015
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Essays in Social and Economic Networks
Chiong, Khai Xiang ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Echenique, Federico; Shum, Matthew S.
Value Estimation and Comparison in Multi-Attribute Choice
Fisher, Geoffrey W. ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Rangel, Antonio
The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and Redistricting: Improving Estimates of Racially Polarized Voting in a Multiple-Election Context
Kimble, Jaclyn ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays in Behavioral Decision Theory
Kovach, Matthew Luke ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
At Your Convenience: Facilitating Voting and Registration
Pellissier, Allyson Leigh ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays on Correlated Equilibrium and Voter Turnout
Pogorelskiy, Kirill B. ・ PhD ・ 2015
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
An Examination of a Laboratory Variant of the BIV Scenario
Geller, Jaden Matthew ・ Other ・ 2014
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Virtuosity
Liu, Anna ・ Other ・ 2014
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Huckleberry
Moore, Marlyn Joanna ・ Other ・ 2014
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
How Far from Jerusalem? Tropical Customs and the Question of Race in the Book of John Mandeville
Mukherjee, Eric S. ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2014
Advisor: Wey-Gómez, Nicolas
Time and Fate in Shakespeare’s Othello and Cinthio’s “The Moor of Venice”
Nety, Suchita Patil ・ Other ・ 2014
Advisor: Unknown, Unknown
Extractive Institutions in Colonial Africa
Tadei, Federico ・ PhD ・ 2014
Advisor: Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent
An Economic Approach to Consumer Product Ratings
Beckett, Dustin Hughes ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Essays on Information, Competition, and Cooperation
Boosey, Luke Anthony ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Essays on Behavioral and Neuro-economics
Bushong, Benjamin L. ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Rangel, Antonio
Essays on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching
Büyükboyaci Hanay, Mürüvvet Ilknur ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Yariv, Leeat; Palfrey, Thomas R.
Four Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Political Ideology
Foley, Peter William ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays on Learning and Econometrics
Kayaba, Yutaka ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Bossaerts, Peter L.
Essays on Economics Networks
Melo Sanchez, Cristian Emerson ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
Essays in Mechanism Design
Pereira de Freitas, Guilherme ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity
Roy, Nilanjan ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Markets and Microstructure
Ruchti, Thomas Gorden ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Shum, Matthew S.
Of Primary Importance: American Primary Elections 1945-2012
Sinclair, John Andrew ・ PhD ・ 2013
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays in Neurofinance
Frydman, Cary David ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Rangel, Antonio
Computational Biases in Decision-Making
Janowski, Vanessa ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Rangel, Antonio
Three Essays on Microeconomic Theory
Lee, SangMok ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Echenique, Federico
A New Approach to the Study of Political Participation
Levin Fiorelli, Ines ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Robust Dynamic Mechanisms
Mostagir, Mohamed ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Essays on Dynamic Political Economy
Nunnari, Salvatore ・ PhD ・ 2012
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Neurometrically Informed Mechanism Design and the Role of Visual Fixations in Simple Choice
Krajbich, Ian Michael ・ PhD ・ 2011
Advisor: Rangel, Antonio
Experiments on the Dynamics of Community Formation
Robbett, Andrea ・ PhD ・ 2011
Advisor: Plott, Charles R.
Information Aggregation and Allocative Efficiency in Complex Environments
Brunner, Christoph ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Goeree, Jacob K.
Three Experimental Studies of Reward and Decision Making
Kang, Min Jeong ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Essays in Electoral Behavior and Bayesian Data Analysis
Katz, Gabriel ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael; Katz, Jonathan N.
Information and Motivation In Organizations
Linardi, Sera ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Contracts and Markets
Maretto, Guido Tulio Andrea ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Social Interactions and Giving
McConnell, Margaret Anne ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Goeree, Jacob K.; Yariv, Leeat
Essays on Cooperation and Coordination
Romero, Julian Neukom ・ PhD ・ 2010
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Continuous Double Auctions and Microstructure
Alton, Michael R. ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Plott, Charles R.
Incentives and Institutions: Essays in Mechanism Design and Game Theory with Applications
Kucuksenel, Serkan ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Rational Models of Political Behavior: The Effects of Opinion, Information, and Procedures
Llewellyn, Morgan Hunt ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays on Law and Economics
Miller, Alan Daniel ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: McAfee, R. Preston
Organizational and Financial Economics
Myung, Noah ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Cvitanić, Jakša; Echenique, Federico; Plott, Charles R.; Camerer, Colin F.
On the Interaction Between Firm Level Variables, the CAPM Beta, and Stock Returns
Panattoni, Laura Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Lehmann, Bruce N.
Firm Behaviour in Markets with Capacity Constraints
Young, David Thomas ・ PhD ・ 2009
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Three Papers in Neuroeconomics
Bhatt, Meghana A. ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Investigating Psychology-Influenced Economic Models in Lab, Field, and Theory
Brown, Alexander L. ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Plott, Charles R.
Selection, Learning, and Nomination: Essays on Supermodular Games, Design, and Political Theory
Mathevet, Laurent Alexandre ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Echenique, Federico; Jackson, Matthew O.
When Candidates Attack: Who Goes Negative, and Why it Works
Mattes, Kyle Alan ・ PhD ・ 2008
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays on Causal Inference and Political Representation
Bailey, Delia Ruth Grigg ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Katz, Jonathan N.; Alvarez, R. Michael
A Theory of Elections and Voting Blocs
Eguia Egusquiza, Jon Xabier ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.; Jackson, Matthew O.
Behavioral Biases in Information Acquisition
Feiler, Lauren Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
The Pursuit of Equality through Education Finance Reform
Hill, Sarah Anne ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
Three Correlated Essays on the Neural Foundations of Economic Decision-Making
Hsu, Ming ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Prices, Holdings, and Learning in Financial Markets: Experiments and Methodology
Meloso, Debrah C. Z. ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Bossaerts, Peter L.; Ledyard, John O.; Zame, William R.
Political Networks
Sinclair, Deborah Elizabeth (Betsy) ・ PhD ・ 2007
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Learning and Status in Social Networks
Rogers, Brian W. ・ PhD ・ 2006
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Robust Bilateral Trade and an Essay on Awareness as an Equilibrium Notion
Čopič, Jernej ・ PhD ・ 2006
Advisor: Jackson, Matthew O.
Institutions, Incentives and Behavior: Essays in Public Economics and Mechanism Design
Healy, Paul Jay ・ PhD ・ 2005
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Minority Rights in Majoritarian Institutions
Roust, Kevin A. ・ PhD ・ 2005
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Competition and Equilibration in Financial Markets
Asparouhova, Elena Nikolaeva ・ PhD ・ 2004
Advisor: Bossaerts, Peter L.
The Shirking Model – A Theory of How People Answer Survey Questions
VanBeselaere, Carla Emily ・ PhD ・ 2004
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Edward Lewis and Radioactive Fallout: The Impact of Caltech Biologists on the Debate Over Nuclear Weapons Testing in the 1950s and 60s
Caron, Jennifer ・ Senior Thesis ・ 2003
Advisor: Kormos-Buchwald, Diana L.
Essays on Uncertainty: An Axiomatization and Economic Applications
Guarnaschelli, Serena Silvia ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Bossaerts, Peter L.
Three Episodes in Nineteenth Century United States Banking and Finance
Hoag, Christopher S. ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Davis, Lance E.
Information Aggregation, with Application to Monotone Ordering, Advocacy, and Conviviality
Klemens, Ben ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Jackson, Matthew O.
Cooperation and Social Choice: How Foresight Can Induce Fairness
Penn, Elizabeth Maggie ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: McKelvey, Richard D; Alvarez, R. Michael
Political Information, Institutions and Citizen Participation in American Politics
Wilson, Catherine Heden ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: A Study of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets
Zeiler, Kathryn Marie ・ PhD ・ 2003
Advisor: Jackson, Matthew O.
The Initiative Process and the Reform of Educational Policies
Bali, Valentina Andrea ・ PhD ・ 2002
Advisor: Jackson, Matthew O.
Voting and Electoral Competition
Callander, Steven Joseph ・ PhD ・ 2002
Advisor: Banks, Jeffrey S.; Camerer, Colin F.
Understanding an Economic Dilemma: Essays on Common Property Resources
Casari, Marco ・ PhD ・ 2002
Advisor: Hoffman, Philip T.
Principal Agent Models of Bureaucratic and Public Decision Making
Gailmard, Sean Patrick ・ PhD ・ 2002
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.; Camerer, Colin F.
Behavioral Models of Strategies in Multi-Armed Bandit Problems
Anderson, Christopher Madden ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.; Border, Kim C.
Awakening a Sleeping Giant: The Riddle of Latino Political Participation
Butterfield, Tara Lee ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Cooperative and Market-Based Solutions to Pollution Abatement Problems
Fine, Leslie Rachel ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Addiction
Hung, Angela Ann-Chi ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Voting Games with Incomplete Information
Patty, John Wiggs ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
“Protecting the Public Welfare and Morals”: Political Institutions, Federalism, and Prohibition, 1834-1934
Roberts, Reginald Eric ・ PhD ・ 2001
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
Beyond the Ballot: the Influence of Direct Democracy on Interest Group Behavior
Boehmke, Frederick Jason ・ PhD ・ 2000
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Essays on the Industrial Organization of Telecommunications and Network Industries
Gonzalez Staffa, Alvaro S. ・ PhD ・ 2000
Advisor: Wilkie, Simon J.
Asymmetric Information and Cooperation
Kwasnica, Anthony Mark ・ PhD ・ 2000
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Interdependence in organizations and laboratory groups
Weber, Roberto ・ PhD ・ 2000
Advisor: Camerer, Colin F.
Public Institutions and Private Incentives: Three Essays
Coughlan, Peter Judd ・ PhD ・ 1999
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.; Davis, Lance E.
Issue Publics in American Politics
Glasgow, Garrett Edwin ・ PhD ・ 1999
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael
Statistical and econometric analysis of the treatment of HIV/AIDS
Ramirez, Christina M. ・ PhD ・ 1999
Advisor: Grether, David; Border, Kim C.
The design of agency relations : four essays on contract theory, applications, and experimentation
Williamson, Dean V. ・ PhD ・ 1999
Advisor: Davis, Lance E.
Discrete approximation of continuous allocation mechanisms
Yu, Jin ・ PhD ・ 1999
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Districting Principles and Democratic Representation
Altman, Micah ・ PhD ・ 1998
Advisor: Kousser, J. Morgan
Political Competition in Federations
Filippov, Mikhail G. ・ PhD ・ 1998
Advisor: Ordeshook, Peter C.; Border, Kim C.
Four Puzzles in Information and Politics : Product Bans, Informed Voters, Social Insurance, & Persistent Disagreement
Hanson, Robin Dale ・ PhD ・ 1998
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Nativism in the 1990s
Wang, Fang ・ PhD ・ 1998
Advisor: Alvarez, R. Michael; Border, Kim C.
A Microeconometric Analysis of Consumer Response to Direct Marketing and Mail Order
Kalsow, Gretchen Anne ・ PhD ・ 1997
Advisor: Dubin, Jeffrey A.; Davis, Lance E.
Three Essays on Russia’s Transition to Democracy
Myagkov, Mikhail G. ・ PhD ・ 1997
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick; Davis, Lance E.
Stochastic Bargaining Theory and Order Flow
Kato, Kaoru ・ PhD ・ 1996
Advisor: Bossaerts, Peter L.
Dominant Strategy Implementation on Private Goods Domains with Indivisibilities
Pápai, Szilvia ・ PhD ・ 1996
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.; Davis, Lance E.
Welfare Magnets, the Labor-Leisure Decision and Economic Efficiency
Saving, Jason Lee ・ PhD ・ 1996
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.; Davis, Lance E.
Allocation and computation in rail networks : a binary conflicts ascending price mechanism (BICAP) for the decentralized allocation of the right to use railroad tracks
Brewer, Paul J. ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Plott, Charles R.
A theoretical study of political institutions and economic policies
Chen, Yan ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.; Ordeshook, Peter C.
Bayesian Implementation
Duggan, John R. ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.; Davis, Lance E.
Three aspects of multicandidate competition in plurality rule elections
Fey, Mark ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
The formation of teams under incomplete information
Sherstyuk, Katerina ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Electoral institutional design
Shvetsova, Olga V. ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Ordeshook, Peter C.
Essays in applied economics : new techniques in aggregate data analysis
Udell, Michael Alan ・ PhD ・ 1995
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
The Strategic Behavior of Rational Novices
Chen, Kay-Yut ・ PhD ・ 1994
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.; Plott, Charles R.
Equilibrium in dynamic economic models
Schmidt, David Russell ・ PhD ・ 1994
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
The political econmoy of state government debt : an analysis of constitutional limitations (1961-1990)
Szakaly, Kristin Erica ・ PhD ・ 1994
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
A comparative study of capital market failure and institutional innovation
Cull, Robert Joseph ・ PhD ・ 1993
Advisor: Davis, Lance E.
Fiscal policies, optimal growth, and elections under different economic systems
Lian, Peng ・ PhD ・ 1993
Advisor: McKelvey, Richard D.
A theoretical and experimental investigation of auctions in multi-unit demand environments
Noussair, Charles Nabih ・ PhD ・ 1993
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
The Organization of Production: Moral Hazard and R&D
Polk, Charles William ・ PhD ・ 1993
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Cooperation in Reciprocity Games and in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism
Prisbrey, Jeffrey Emig ・ PhD ・ 1993
Advisor: Palfrey, Thomas R.
Individual choice in political economy
Zeng, Langche ・ PhD ・ 1993
Advisor: Ordeshook, Peter C.
The analysis of repeated games through evolution and learning
Boylan, Richard Thomas ・ PhD ・ 1991
Advisor: McKelvey, Richard D.
Property Rights and Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900
Kantor, Shawn Everett ・ PhD ・ 1991
Advisor: Kousser, J. Morgan; Davis, Lance E.
The effect of political information on direct democracy strategies and outcomes
Lupia, Arthur William ・ PhD ・ 1991
Advisor: Ordeshook, Peter C.; McKelvey, Richard D.
The Assignment Problem: Theory and Experiments
Olson, Mark Allen ・ PhD ・ 1991
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Pre-auction investment and equivalence of auctions
Guler, Kemal ・ PhD ・ 1990
Advisor: McKelvey, Richard D.
Optimal procurement and contracting with research and development
Tan, Guofu ・ PhD ・ 1990
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.
Efficiency and Stability in Partnerships
Legros, Patrick ・ PhD ・ 1989
Advisor: Ledyard, John O.; Kiewiet, D. Roderick
An Examination of Strategic Opportunities Provided by the Conference Committee Procedure in the U.S. Congress
Nagler, Jonathan ・ PhD ・ 1989
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
The Federal Photovoltaics Commercialization Program
Pegram, William Manson ・ PhD ・ 1989
Advisor: Reinganum, Jennifer F.
Econometrics of Duopolistic Games in Prices and Advertising: The Case of the U.S. Soft Drink Industry
Gasmi, Farid ・ PhD ・ 1988
Advisor: Reinganum, Jennifer F.; Kiewiet, D. Roderick
Regulatory Theory and Its Application to Trade Policy: A Study of ITC Decision-Making
Hansen, Wendy Lynn ・ PhD ・ 1988
Advisor: Kiewiet, D. Roderick
The Fruits of Revolution; Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture 1700-1860
Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent ・ PhD ・ 1988
Advisor: Hoffman, Philip T.
The Political Economy of Price Supports
Campos, Jose Edgardo L. ・ PhD ・ 1987
Advisor: Reinganum, Jennifer F.; Kiewiet, D. Roderick
Financial Equilibrium, Voting Procedures, and Coalition Structures in Allocational Mechanisms
Williamson, Jack Marshall ・ PhD ・ 1987
Advisor: McKelvey, Richard D.
Signaling Games: Theory and Applications
Banks, Jeffrey Scot ・ PhD ・ 1986
Advisor: McKelvey, Richard D.
Games in Econometrics with Applications to Labor Economics
Bjorn, Paul Anders ・ PhD ・ 1986
Advisor: Vuong, Quang H.
Essays on Speculation and Futures Markets
Lien, Da-Hsiang Donald ・ PhD ・ 1986
Advisor: Quirk, James P.
Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Commodity Futures Price Distributions
Fort, Rodney Douglas ・ PhD ・ 1985
Advisor: Quirk, James P.
Studies in Market Signaling: The Firm’s Selection of Finance and Consumer Product Warranties
Gerard, James Michael ・ PhD ・ 1985
Advisor: Wilde, Louis L.
Political and Market Equilibria with Income Taxes
Snyder, James Millett, Jr. ・ PhD ・ 1985
Advisor: Kramer, Gerald H.
The Structure of Individual Decisions in American Elections: the Influence of Relevant Alternatives
McCue, Kenneth Frank ・ PhD ・ 1984
Advisor: Cain, Bruce E.
Three Essays in Law and Economics
Sadanand, Asha B. ・ PhD ・ 1984
Advisor: Wilde, Louis L.
Three Essays in Theoretical, Applied, and Normative Economics
Selinger, Stephen Richard ・ PhD ・ 1984
Advisor: Klein, Burton H.
Party and Constituency in Victorian Britain
Cox, Gary Walter ・ PhD ・ 1983
Advisor: Kousser, J. Morgan
Rational Individual Behavior and Collective Irrationality: The Legislative Choice of Regulatory Form
McCubbins, Mathew Daniel ・ PhD ・ 1983
Advisor: Ferejohn, John A.
Imperfect Information and Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Power
Sadanand, Venkatraman ・ PhD ・ 1983
Advisor: Green, Edward J.
Essays on the Economics of Sponsored Research
Balbien, Joel Abe ・ PhD ・ 1982
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
An Assessment of the Viability of Marketable Permits
Hahn, Robert William ・ PhD ・ 1981
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Essays on the Role of Information in Natural Resource Exploration and Development
Isaac, Robert Mark ・ PhD ・ 1981
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Equilibrium Models of Multiple-Object Auctions
Palfrey, Thomas Rossman, III ・ PhD ・ 1981
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Legal Remedies and Reputation as Solutions to Moral Hazard in Contracting
Rogerson, William Paul ・ PhD ・ 1981
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.; Wilde, Louis L.
On the Role of Imperfect Information in Electoral Politics
Calvert, Randall Lee ・ PhD ・ 1980
Advisor: Cain, Bruce E.; Ferejohn, John A.; Wilde, Louis L.
Regulatory Distortions in Transportation and Telecommunications
Sparling, Lee Ira ・ PhD ・ 1980
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Essays in Forward Markets and the Uranium Industry
Binger, Brian Robert ・ PhD ・ 1979
Advisor: Quirk, James P.
Essays on the Economics of Licensing Nuclear Power Plants
Cohen, Linda Rachel ・ PhD ・ 1979
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Essays in Optimal Resource Allocation under Uncertainty with Capacity Constraints
Hoffman, Elizabeth ・ PhD ・ 1979
Advisor: Quirk, James P.
Microeconomic Foundations of Research and Development
Lee, Tom Kwan-Yau ・ PhD ・ 1979
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Axiomatic Analysis of Legal/Institutional Issues
Spitzer, Matthew Laurence ・ PhD ・ 1979
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Essays in Economic and Political Choice
Al-Adhadh, Naim Hassan ・ PhD ・ 1978
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.
Directional and Static Equilibrium in Social Decision Processes
Matthews, Steven A. ・ PhD ・ 1978
Advisor: Plott, Charles R.
A Representative Legislature and Regulatory Agency Capture
Weingast, Barry Robert ・ PhD ・ 1978
Advisor: Noll, Roger G.