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2026

• Estes, Matthew — Essays on Law and Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sung, Po Hyun — Essays on Stochastic Choice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2025

• Detkova, Polina — Essays in Experimental Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doe, Peter Nathanael — Essays in Matching Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Feng, Kexin — Tensions, Trade, and Transformation: Essays on Chinese Economic History During the Warlord Era (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Morrier, Jacob — Essays on Political Accountability and Representation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shi, Ke — Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Fan — Essays on Information Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2024

• Ebanks, Daniel C. — Unexpected Partisan Unity Among Congressional Leaders and Legislators Using New Latent Variable Estimation Techniques and Frameworks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fong, Meng-Jhang — Essays in Behavioral Economics and Game Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gailmard, Lindsey Anne — Reputation and Accountability (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Wanying — Essays on Rational Social Learning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huey, Joanna Nanami — Institutional Design of Criminal Justice Processes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kobayashi, Shunto Jerry — Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhuofang — Essays on Trustworthy Online Platforms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Po-Hsuan — Essays in Behavioral Game Theory Solution Concepts (Other)
• Lucia, Aldo — An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Decision-Making Under Risk (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2023

• Goel, Sumit — Essays in Mechanism Design and Contest Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guth, Daniel Robert — Essays in Health Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hann-Caruthers, Wade Daniel — Essays on Social Learning and Social Choice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kann, Claudia Kenyon — Computational Methods in the Study of Political Behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeidel, Jeffrey Roy — Essays in Behavioral Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2022

• Devdariani, Saba — Agency Problems in Political Science (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Yimeng — Three Essays on Survey Methods and their Applications to Measuring Political Behavior and Attitudes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Shiyu — Three Essays in Applied Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2020

• Kim, Seo-young Silvia — Three Essays in the Dynamics of Political Behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martynov, Vadim Vadimovich — Essays on Social Learning and Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Robinson Cortés, Alejandro — Essays on Market Design and Industrial Organization (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2019

• Adams-Cohen, Nicholas Joseph — New Perspectives in Political Communication (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hamze Bajgiran, Hamed — Essays On Decision Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Chujun — Understanding How People Make Trait Attributions from Faces (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhao, Hao — Essays on Economics of Groundwater Resource Management (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2018

• Adachi, Ryo — Computational and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Decision-Making in Humans (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Jun — Essays on Early-Stage Financing and Firm Behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fernandez, Marcelo Ariel — Essays in Market Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Núñez, Lucas — Unobserved Heterogeneity in Observational Studies of Political Behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Li — Three Essays on Mechanism Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sui, Pengfei — Essays on Investor Beliefs and Asset Pricing (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Mali — Information and Strategic Decision-Making in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Empirical Assessment (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2017

• Mayskaya, Tatiana S. — Essays on Information Collection (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosado Buenfil, Welmar Eduardo — Essays on the Political Economy of Subnational Public Finances (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Myungkoo — Essays on the Impact of Information Asymmetry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Jun — Essays on Matching Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2016

• Huang, Yifei — Essays in Economic History and Applied Microeconomics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Imai, Taisuke — Essays in Revealed Preference Theory and Behavioral Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montero, Sergio — Essays in Econometrics and Political Economy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Qiaoxi — Three Essays on Information Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2015

• Chao, Matthew C. — How Behavioral Economics Can Shape Firm Strategy and Public Policy: Lessons from the Field and Laboratory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chapman, Jonathan Neil — Death or Taxes? The Political Economy of Sanitation Expenditure in Nineteenth Century Britain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiong, Khai Xiang — Essays in Social and Economic Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kimble, Jaclyn — The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and Redistricting: Improving Estimates of Racially Polarized Voting in a Multiple-Election Context (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovach, Matthew Luke — Essays in Behavioral Decision Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pellissier, Allyson Leigh — At Your Convenience: Facilitating Voting and Registration (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pogorelskiy, Kirill B. — Essays on Correlated Equilibrium and Voter Turnout (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2014

• Tadei, Federico — Extractive Institutions in Colonial Africa (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2013

• Beckett, Dustin Hughes — An Economic Approach to Consumer Product Ratings (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boosey, Luke Anthony — Essays on Information, Competition, and Cooperation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bushong, Benjamin L. — Essays on Behavioral and Neuro-economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Büyükboyaci Hanay, Mürüvvet Ilknur — Essays on Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Foley, Peter William — Four Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Political Ideology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kayaba, Yutaka — Essays on Learning and Econometrics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melo Sanchez, Cristian Emerson — Essays on Economics Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pereira de Freitas, Guilherme — Essays in Mechanism Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roy, Nilanjan — Essays on Cooperation and Reciprocity (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruchti, Thomas Gorden — Markets and Microstructure (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sinclair, John Andrew — Of Primary Importance: American Primary Elections 1945-2012 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2012

• Frydman, Cary David — Essays in Neurofinance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Janowski, Vanessa — Computational Biases in Decision-Making (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, SangMok — Three Essays on Microeconomic Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Levin Fiorelli, Ines — A New Approach to the Study of Political Participation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mostagir, Mohamed — Robust Dynamic Mechanisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nunnari, Salvatore — Essays on Dynamic Political Economy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2011

• Robbett, Andrea — Experiments on the Dynamics of Community Formation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2010

• Brunner, Christoph — Information Aggregation and Allocative Efficiency in Complex Environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kang, Min Jeong — Three Experimental Studies of Reward and Decision Making (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Katz, Gabriel — Essays in Electoral Behavior and Bayesian Data Analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Linardi, Sera — Information and Motivation In Organizations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maretto, Guido Tulio Andrea — Contracts and Markets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McConnell, Margaret Anne — Social Interactions and Giving (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romero, Julian Neukom — Essays on Cooperation and Coordination (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2009

• Alton, Michael R. — Continuous Double Auctions and Microstructure (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kucuksenel, Serkan — Incentives and Institutions: Essays in Mechanism Design and Game Theory with Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Llewellyn, Morgan Hunt — Rational Models of Political Behavior: The Effects of Opinion, Information, and Procedures (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Alan Daniel — Essays on Law and Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Myung, Noah — Organizational and Financial Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Panattoni, Laura Elizabeth — On the Interaction Between Firm Level Variables, the CAPM Beta, and Stock Returns (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Young, David Thomas — Firm Behaviour in Markets with Capacity Constraints (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2008

• Bhatt, Meghana A. — Three Papers in Neuroeconomics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Alexander L. — Investigating Psychology-Influenced Economic Models in Lab, Field, and Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mathevet, Laurent Alexandre — Selection, Learning, and Nomination: Essays on Supermodular Games, Design, and Political Theory (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mattes, Kyle Alan — When Candidates Attack: Who Goes Negative, and Why it Works (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2007

• Bailey, Delia Ruth Grigg — Essays on Causal Inference and Political Representation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eguia Egusquiza, Jon Xabier — A Theory of Elections and Voting Blocs (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Feiler, Lauren Elizabeth — Behavioral Biases in Information Acquisition (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Sarah Anne — The Pursuit of Equality through Education Finance Reform (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsu, Ming — Three Correlated Essays on the Neural Foundations of Economic Decision-Making (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meloso, Debrah C. Z. — Prices, Holdings, and Learning in Financial Markets: Experiments and Methodology (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sinclair, Deborah Elizabeth (Betsy) — Political Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2006

• Čopič, Jernej — Robust Bilateral Trade and an Essay on Awareness as an Equilibrium Notion (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rogers, Brian W. — Learning and Status in Social Networks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2005

• Healy, Paul Jay — Institutions, Incentives and Behavior: Essays in Public Economics and Mechanism Design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roust, Kevin A. — Minority Rights in Majoritarian Institutions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2004

• Asparouhova, Elena Nikolaeva — Competition and Equilibration in Financial Markets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• VanBeselaere, Carla Emily — The Shirking Model – A Theory of How People Answer Survey Questions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2003

• Guarnaschelli, Serena Silvia — Essays on Uncertainty: An Axiomatization and Economic Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoag, Christopher S. — Three Episodes in Nineteenth Century United States Banking and Finance (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Klemens, Ben — Information Aggregation, with Application to Monotone Ordering, Advocacy, and Conviviality (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Penn, Elizabeth Maggie — Cooperation and Social Choice: How Foresight Can Induce Fairness (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Catherine Heden — Political Information, Institutions and Citizen Participation in American Politics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeiler, Kathryn Marie — Medical Malpractice and Contract Disclosure: A Study of the Effects of Legal Rules on Behavior in Health Care Markets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2002

• Bali, Valentina Andrea — The Initiative Process and the Reform of Educational Policies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Callander, Steven Joseph — Voting and Electoral Competition (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Casari, Marco — Understanding an Economic Dilemma: Essays on Common Property Resources (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gailmard, Sean Patrick — Principal Agent Models of Bureaucratic and Public Decision Making (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2001

• Anderson, Christopher Madden — Behavioral Models of Strategies in Multi-Armed Bandit Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Butterfield, Tara Lee — Awakening a Sleeping Giant: The Riddle of Latino Political Participation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fine, Leslie Rachel — Cooperative and Market-Based Solutions to Pollution Abatement Problems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hung, Angela Ann-Chi — A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Addiction (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Patty, John Wiggs — Voting Games with Incomplete Information (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Roberts, Reginald Eric — "Protecting the Public Welfare and Morals": Political Institutions, Federalism, and Prohibition, 1834-1934 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

2000

• Boehmke, Frederick Jason — Beyond the Ballot: the Influence of Direct Democracy on Interest Group Behavior (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gonzalez Staffa, Alvaro S. — Essays on the Industrial Organization of Telecommunications and Network Industries (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kwasnica, Anthony Mark — Asymmetric Information and Cooperation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weber, Roberto — Interdependence in organizations and laboratory groups (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1999

• Coughlan, Peter Judd — Public Institutions and Private Incentives: Three Essays (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Glasgow, Garrett Edwin — Issue Publics in American Politics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramirez, Christina M. — Statistical and econometric analysis of the treatment of HIV/AIDS (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williamson, Dean V. — The design of agency relations : four essays on contract theory, applications, and experimentation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Jin — Discrete approximation of continuous allocation mechanisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1998

• Altman, Micah — Districting Principles and Democratic Representation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Filippov, Mikhail G. — Political Competition in Federations (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanson, Robin Dale — Four Puzzles in Information and Politics : Product Bans, Informed Voters, Social Insurance, & Persistent Disagreement (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Fang — Nativism in the 1990s (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1997

• Kalsow, Gretchen Anne — A Microeconometric Analysis of Consumer Response to Direct Marketing and Mail Order (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Myagkov, Mikhail G. — Three Essays on Russia's Transition to Democracy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1996

• Kato, Kaoru — Stochastic Bargaining Theory and Order Flow (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pápai, Szilvia — Dominant Strategy Implementation on Private Goods Domains with Indivisibilities (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Saving, Jason Lee — Welfare Magnets, the Labor-Leisure Decision and Economic Efficiency (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1995

• Brewer, Paul J. — Allocation and computation in rail networks : a binary conflicts ascending price mechanism (BICAP) for the decentralized allocation of the right to use railroad tracks (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yan — A theoretical study of political institutions and economic policies (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duggan, John R. — Bayesian Implementation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fey, Mark — Three aspects of multicandidate competition in plurality rule elections (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sherstyuk, Katerina — The formation of teams under incomplete information (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shvetsova, Olga V. — Electoral institutional design (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Udell, Michael Alan — Essays in applied economics : new techniques in aggregate data analysis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1994

• Chen, Kay-Yut — The Strategic Behavior of Rational Novices (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmidt, David Russell — Equilibrium in dynamic economic models (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szakaly, Kristin Erica — The political econmoy of state government debt : an analysis of constitutional limitations (1961-1990) (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1993

• Cull, Robert Joseph — A comparative study of capital market failure and institutional innovation (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lian, Peng — Fiscal policies, optimal growth, and elections under different economic systems (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Noussair, Charles Nabih — A theoretical and experimental investigation of auctions in multi-unit demand environments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Polk, Charles William — The Organization of Production: Moral Hazard and R&D (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Prisbrey, Jeffrey Emig — Cooperation in Reciprocity Games and in the Voluntary Contributions Mechanism (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zeng, Langche — Individual choice in political economy (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1991

• Boylan, Richard Thomas — The analysis of repeated games through evolution and learning (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kantor, Shawn Everett — Property Rights and Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lupia, Arthur William — The effect of political information on direct democracy strategies and outcomes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olson, Mark Allen — The Assignment Problem: Theory and Experiments (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1990

• Guler, Kemal — Pre-auction investment and equivalence of auctions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tan, Guofu — Optimal procurement and contracting with research and development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1989

• Legros, Patrick — Efficiency and Stability in Partnerships (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nagler, Jonathan — An Examination of Strategic Opportunities Provided by the Conference Committee Procedure in the U.S. Congress (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pegram, William Manson — The Federal Photovoltaics Commercialization Program (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1988

• Gasmi, Farid — Econometrics of Duopolistic Games in Prices and Advertising: The Case of the U.S. Soft Drink Industry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hansen, Wendy Lynn — Regulatory Theory and Its Application to Trade Policy: A Study of ITC Decision-Making (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent — The Fruits of Revolution; Property Rights, Litigation and French Agriculture 1700-1860 (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1987

• Campos, Jose Edgardo L. — The Political Economy of Price Supports (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williamson, Jack Marshall — Financial Equilibrium, Voting Procedures, and Coalition Structures in Allocational Mechanisms (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1986

• Banks, Jeffrey Scot — Signaling Games: Theory and Applications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bjorn, Paul Anders — Games in Econometrics with Applications to Labor Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lien, Da-Hsiang Donald — Essays on Speculation and Futures Markets (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1985

• Fort, Rodney Douglas — Theory and Practice in the Analysis of Commodity Futures Price Distributions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gerard, James Michael — Studies in Market Signaling: The Firm's Selection of Finance and Consumer Product Warranties (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Snyder, James Millett, Jr. — Political and Market Equilibria with Income Taxes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1984

• McCue, Kenneth Frank — The Structure of Individual Decisions in American Elections: the Influence of Relevant Alternatives (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sadanand, Asha B. — Three Essays in Law and Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Selinger, Stephen Richard — Three Essays in Theoretical, Applied, and Normative Economics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1983

• Cox, Gary Walter — Party and Constituency in Victorian Britain (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McCubbins, Mathew Daniel — Rational Individual Behavior and Collective Irrationality: The Legislative Choice of Regulatory Form (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sadanand, Venkatraman — Imperfect Information and Oligopoly with Endogenous Market Power (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1982

• Balbien, Joel Abe — Essays on the Economics of Sponsored Research (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1981

• Hahn, Robert William — An Assessment of the Viability of Marketable Permits (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Isaac, Robert Mark — Essays on the Role of Information in Natural Resource Exploration and Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Palfrey, Thomas Rossman, III — Equilibrium Models of Multiple-Object Auctions (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rogerson, William Paul — Legal Remedies and Reputation as Solutions to Moral Hazard in Contracting (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1980

• Calvert, Randall Lee — On the Role of Imperfect Information in Electoral Politics (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sparling, Lee Ira — Regulatory Distortions in Transportation and Telecommunications (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1979

• Binger, Brian Robert — Essays in Forward Markets and the Uranium Industry (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Linda Rachel — Essays on the Economics of Licensing Nuclear Power Plants (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoffman, Elizabeth — Essays in Optimal Resource Allocation under Uncertainty with Capacity Constraints (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Tom Kwan-Yau — Microeconomic Foundations of Research and Development (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spitzer, Matthew Laurence — Axiomatic Analysis of Legal/Institutional Issues (Dissertation (Ph.D.))

1978

• Al-Adhadh, Naim Hassan — Essays in Economic and Political Choice (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matthews, Steven A. — Directional and Static Equilibrium in Social Decision Processes (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weingast, Barry Robert — A Representative Legislature and Regulatory Agency Capture (Dissertation (Ph.D.))