Doctoral Dissertation Proposals and Defenses
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Upcoming Dissertation Proposals
Aidin Niaparast, Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization
“Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Online Joint Replenishment and Learning-Augmented Data Structures”
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
12:30pm
TEP 4242 / Zoom (please contact lclee@andrew.cs-grc.com for link)
Hoang-Anh Nguyen, Economics
Title TBA
Thursday, November 21, 2024
10:30am
TEP 4242
Weizhong Zhang, Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization
Title TBA
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
9:00am
TEP 4242
Jieqiong (Julie) Wang, Marketing
Title TBA
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
10:00am
TEP 5219
Nilsu Uzunlar, Operations Management
Title TBA
Friday, December 6, 2024
10:30am
TEP 4219
Yuan Yuan, Marketing
Title TBA
Friday, December 6, 2024
3:00pm
TEP 4219
Arnav Sood, Economics
"Essays on Learning in Economics"
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
1:00pm
TEP 4242
Yue (Sarah) Wu, Financial Economics
Title TBA
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
2:30pm
TEP 5219
Recent Proposals, Defenses and Dissertations
Accounting
Recent Proposals
Cheng (Leo) Li
“Essays on Earnings Management and Financial Analysts”
Yao Wang
“Essays on Voluntary Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure”
Completed Dissertations
Carl Brousseau
"Essays on Financial Reporting Quality"
Min Cao
"Stock Price Behavior Around External Financing"
Nam Ho
“Competition in the Market for Assurance Services”
Hyun Hwang
"Essays on Corporate Disclosure and Organizational Structure"
Eunhee Kim
"The Mechanism of Control in Organizations: Essays on Imperfect Measures of Managerial Talent"
Tae Wook Ryan Kim
"Essays on Earnings Management, Investment Efficiency, and Managerial Incentives"
Chen Li
"Essays on the Structural Models of Executive Compensation"
Wei Li
"Essays on Earning Management and Leading Indicator Variables"
Yi Liang
"Essays in Accounting Regulation and Earning Management"
Guoyu Lin
"Essays on Earnings Management and Corporate Governance"
Jong Chool Park
Hong Qu
"How Do Market Price and Cheap Talk Affect Coordination?"
Lufei Ruan
"Essays on Accounting Conservatism, Managerial Incentives, and Investment Efficiency"
Amy Xue Sun
“Informativeness of Dividend Announcements and the Market’s Inefficient Response to Earnings”
Phong Truong
“External Factors Influencing Firm Information Environment: Essays on Financial Analysts, Auditors, and Industry Peers”
Aluna Wang
"Essays on Information Transmission Mechanisms"
Sang Wu
“Essays on Public Communication and Economic Incentives in Capital Markets”
Hao Xue
"Essays on Multiple Strategic Producers of Information"
Wenjie Xue
"Essays on Mandatory Disclosure and Enforcement"
Yin (Lavender) Yang
“Essays on Climate Disclosure Regulations”
Gaoqing Zhang
"An Economic Inquiry into Information Disclosure by Banking Institutions"
Ran Zhao
"A Firm's Information Disclosure and the Markets for Its Inputs and Outputs"
Yinqing Janet Zhao
Business Technologies
Recent Proposals
Liying Qiu
Completed Dissertations
Ashish Agarwal
"Essays on Economics of Technology Markets"
Bryon Balint
"Field Studies in Offshoring and Process Standardization"
Wai Fong Boh
“Learning, Knowledge-Sharing and Expertise Management in Project-Based Knowledge Work”
Bo Reum Choi
"Essays on Socialization in Online Groups"
Xuefei Deng
"Understanding ERP Requirements Analysis and Design: User Participation, Knowledge Transfer and Shared Mental Models”
Elina Hyeunjung Hwang
"Knowledge Sharing and Creation through Social Media in Organizations”
Muhammad Zia Hydari
"Saving Patient Ryan—Can Advanced Electronic Medical Records Make Patient Care Safer?”
Baojun Jiang
"Strategic Analyses of User Generated Contents and Platforms"
Byung Cho Kim
“Essays on Software Market: Security, Liability, and Pricing”
Seung Hyun Kim
"An Empirical Assessment of Knowledge Management Systems"
Tat Koon Koh
"Essays on Technology-Enabled Platforms"
Vineet Kumar
"Marketing Implications of Shared Information Goods"
Nishtha Langer
"Essays in Information Technology Management"
Yingda Lu
"Essays on Social Media Platforms"
Liye Ma
"Essays on Internet and Network Mediated Marketing Interactions"
Nikhil Malik
"Applications and Economic Impact of Machine Learning and Blockchain Technologies"
Qiaochu Wang
“Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Economics: Transparency, Competition, and Collusion”
Shunyuan Zhang
"A Structural Analysis of Sharing Economy Leveraging Location and Image Analytics Using Deep Learning"
Economics
Recent Proposals
Jason Gates
"Essays on Local Labor Markets"
Nick Hoffman
“Wealth, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Policy”
Jaepil Lee
"Three Essays on Dynamic Discrete Choice"
Martin Michelini
“Structural Empirical Analysis on Market Conduct & Performance”
Yikang Shen
“Economics of the Platform Era”
Shuoqi Sun
“Essays on Consumer Information in Online Markets”
Yizhen Xie
Completed Dissertations
Jose Anchorena
“Three Essays on Productivity Change, Growth and Development”
Aaron Barkley
"Cost and Efficiency in Dynamic Government Outsourcing: Evidence from the Dredging Industry"
Majid Bazarbash
"Banking and Interest Rate Spreads in Macroeconomics"
William Bednar
"Essays on Bank Capital and Home Production"
Andres Bellofatto
"Essays on Macroeconomics and Public Finance"
Jeremy Bertomeu
“Risk Management and the Design of Efficient Incentive Schemes”
Dario Cestau
"Essays on the Provision and Funding of Public Goods"
Billie Davis
"Essays on Education Economics"
Cédric Ehouarne
"Cross-Sectional Phenomena and New Perspectives on Macro-Finance Puzzles"
Özgün Ekici
"Discrete Resource Allocation Problems: Market Design and Axiomatic Mechanism Design"
Chi (Faith) Feng
"Decentralized Collaboration of Open Source Software Development"
Lili Gao
"Applications of Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics in Financial Economics"
Dimitrios Giannias
"Differentiated Products Solutions to Equilibrium Models”
Brett Gordon
"A Dynamic Structural Analysis of the PC Microprocessor Industry”
Caroline Hopkins
"Essays on the Economics of Flood Risk"
Timothy Hyde
“Essays on Beliefs about Catastrophic Risks”
Zümrüt İmamoğlu
"Understanding International Price Dispersion"
Jason Imbrogno
"Essays on the Economics of Education"
Ari Choi Kang
"Parental Choices and the Labor Market Outcome of Children"
Abha Kapoor
Eungsik Kim
"Three essays in the stochastic overlapping generations models"
Cigdem Gizem Körpeoğlu
"Essays on Microeconomic Theory and Its Applications"
Musab Kurnaz
"Essays on Public Finance and Auction Theory"
Jiayi Li
"Essays on Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Investment"
Shuya Li
"Incentives, Information, and Dynamic Games: Applications in Corporations and Schools"
Richard Lowery
"Cooperation in Infinite Games: Applications to Finance and Public Economics"
Steven Lugauer
“Essays on the Labor Force and Aggregate Fluctuations”
Majid Mahzoon
Mauro Moretto
"Essays on Overlapping Generations Models and Social Security"
Andre Mouton
“Essays on Technical Change and Labor Markets”
Megan O'Malley
"Three Essays on Medicare Quality Initiatives"
Fabrizio Orrego Peche
"Essays in Overlapping Generations Economies"
Hakki Ozdenoren
"Occupational Networks, Automation, and Social Insurance"
Sompop Pattanariyankool
"Essays on Power System Economics"
Ali O. Polat
"Essays on Market/Mechanism Design"
Nick Pretnar
"The Individual Anomalies and Aggregate Impacts of Households’ Consumption and Savings Decisions"
Kole Reddig
"Essays on the Economics of Health Care"
Minyoung Rho
"Implementation of the Deferred Acceptance Algorithm in School Choice Application" [dissertation available by request]
Maxime Roy
"On the Securitization of Student Loans and the Financial Crisis of 2007–2009"
Batchimeg Sambalaibat
"Essays in Financial Economics: CDS and Sovereign Bond Market Liquidity, CDS as Sovereign Debt Collateral, Currency Risk and Pricing Kernel Volatility"
Nandana Sengupta
"Machine Learning Techniques in Applied Econometrics"
Benjamin Tengelsen
"Essays on Credit Frictions, Market Expansion, and Strategic Team Production"
Erica VanSant
I-Ta Yang
"Essays on Strategic Behavior in Entry and Exit and the Impact on Local Economy"
Wenting Yu
"Economic Structures in Production Networks"
Jessie Jiaxu Wang
"The Effects of Contracting and Labor Search on Risks in Financial Markets"
Shutian Zeng
"Three Essays in Macroeconomics"
Xuege Zhang
Financial Economics
Recent Proposals
Zahra Ebrahimi
Xiaonan Hong
Kevin Pierre Mott
“Essays on Applications of Machine Learning to the Macroeconomics of Retirement Savings”
Kerry Paul Zhang
Completed Dissertations
Fernando Anjos
“Networks, Complementarities, and Transaction Costs: Applications in Finance and Economic Development”
A. Cevdet Aydemir
“Stock Volatility and Correlations in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models”
Steven David Baker
"Modeling Financial Markets with Heterogeneous Agents"
António Barbosa
"Incorporation of Information in Asset Prices: Dynamic Trading and Manipulation"
Emilio Bisetti
"Essays in Financial Economics"
Maria Chaderina
Camilo Botía Chaparro
"Disclosure Policies, Bank Runs, and Managerial Incentives"
Edwige Cheynel
"A Theory of Voluntary Disclosure and Cost of Capital"
Federico Gavazzoni
"Essays on Asset Pricing Puzzles"
Vincent Glode
"Essays on the Performance of Investment Funds"
Ozge Gokbayrak
"Financing Frictions and Firm Dynamics”
Benjamin Holcblat
Nam Jong Kim
"Essays on International Finance"
Yongjin Kim
"Essays on Corporate Investment"
Stephen Lenkey
"Essays on Closed-End Funds and Advance Disclosure of Trading"
Siyu (Eric) Lu
“Essays on Bank Competition and Regulation”
Vitaly Meursault (Merso)
“Essays on Novel Methods in Empirical Finance”
Diana Mikhail
"The Composition of Limited Partners in Private Equity Funds"
Artem Neklyudov
Atanu (Rick) Paul
Jackson Pfeiffer
"Essays on the Liquidity of Financial Markets"
Carlos Ramírez
"Essays on Financial Intermediation and Economic Linkages"
Alexander Schiller
"Essays on Asset Pricing and the Macroeconomy with Limited Stock Market Participation"
David Schreindorfer
"Essays on Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice with Time-Varying Uncertainty"
Rachel Szymanski
Santiago Téllez Alzate
“On the Asset Pricing Implications of Incomplete Information in Sovereign Debt Markets”
Tianyi (Robert) Yang
Jueheng Zhu
“Essays on the U.S. Equity Speed Bump and National Market System”
Marketing
Recent Proposals
Xiaohang (Flora) Feng
Behnam Mohammadi
"Human-AI-Interaction: Implications for Marketing and Policy-Making"
Ziyan (Angela) Xiao
“Essays on the consumer journey of planning for and pursuing their goals”
Completed Dissertations
Darron Billeter
“Essays on Consumer Learning and New Product Adoption”
Pak Yan (Patrick) Choi
"Essays on Channels and Product Line Design"
Kevin YC Chung
"Essays on Brand Alliance in Marketing"
Francisco Orlando Cisternas Vera
"Essays on the Impact of New Technologies on Firm-Consumer Relationships"
Tansev Geylani
“The Impact of Retailers’ Asymmetric Power on Channel Relations”
Tanuka Ghoshal
"Nonconscious Factors Influencing Attitude/Behavior/Judgment of Products and Sequences"
Colleen E. Giblin
"Ownership Polarization: Self-Reference as an Alternate Account of the Endowment Effect"
Julian Givi
Marcel Goic
"Essays on Multi-Product Pricing"
Young Eun Huh
"Essays on Consumption: Top-Down Motivational Processes in Food Consumption"
Serim Hwang
“The Introduction of Human and AI-Powered Virtual Influencers on Social Media Marketing”
Jinwoo Kim
“Multi-Unit Consumption Structure and its Influence on Hedonic Decline”
Yijin Kim
"Cross-Market Impact and Technology Adoption in the Sharing Economy"
Samuel Levy
“Essays on Bayesian Machine Learning in Marketing”
Xiao Liu
“Marketing Solutions Enabled by Big Data Using Structural Models”
Sameer Mathur
"Product-Line Design in Emerging Markets"
Jian Ni
"A Dynamic Structural Analysis of the Health Care Service Market with Information Asymmetry"
Zijun (June) Shi
"Essays on Technology-driven Marketing"
Peter Stüttgen
"Taking the World As It Is: Three Essays in Marketing"
Yang Yang
"Sentimental Value and Its Influence on Hedonic Adaptation"
Meng Zhu
"Essays on Conservation and Waste in Consumption"
Operations Management
Recent Proposals
Completed Dissertations
Alp Akcay
"Statistical Estimation Problems in Inventory Management"
Nihat Altintas
“Incorporating Buyer Behavior to Drive Supply Chain Operations”
Mehmet Aydemir
Franco Berbeglia
"Strategies and Implications of Entertainment Media Consumption"
Musa Eren Celdir
“Essays on Contemporary Matching and Allocation Problems”
Ismail Civelek
"Essays on Operations Management"
Elvin Coban
"Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Practical Scheduling Problems"
Sherwin Doroudi
"Stochastic Analysis of Maintenance and Routing Policies in Queueing Systems"
Michele Dufalla
"Essays in Service Operations Management"
Paul Enders
"Applications of Stochastic and Queueing Models to Operational Decision Making"
Xin Fang
"Competition and Cooperation in Global Supply Chain Networks"
Canan Gunes
"Essays on Operations Management"
Ersin Körpeoğlu
"Innovation and Crowdsourcing Contests"
Neda Mirzaeian
“An Operational Analysis of Innovative Transportation Technologies”
Emre Nadar
Leela Nageswaran
"Innovative Models in Service Operations"
Masha Shunko
"Global Supply Chain Planning: Impact of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing"
Siddharth Singh
"Regulation and Management of Innovative Technologies"
Vincent W. Slaugh
“Essays in Service Operations Management”
Ekut Sonmez
"Capacity Management with Technology Considerations"
Jiong Sun
"Managing Technology and Operations in Emerging Markets"
Yanhan (Savannah) Tang
“Addressing Challenges in Public Service Operations Management: Data-Driven Solutions and Strategies”
Mulan Xiaofeng Wang
Xin Wang
"Operational Decisions Under the Influence of Government Regulation"
Bo Yang
“A Pathwise Optimization Approach for Reinforcement Learning in Merchant Energy Operations”
Operations Research
Recent Proposals
Completed Dissertations
Kent Hoj Andersen
“Split Disjunctions and Mixed Integer Linear Programs”
Gerdus Benade
"Equity and Efficiency in Computational Social Choice"
Atul Bhandari
“Stochastic Optimization Problems in the Service Industry with Customer Considerations”
Violet (Xinying) Chen
“Fairness Methods in Optimization and Artificial Intelligence”
Andre Augusto Cire
“Decision Diagrams for Optimization”
Ozgun Elci
Kyra (Jingyi) Gan
"Modern Methods in Precision Medicine"
Nam Ho-Nguyen
"Models and Efficient Algorithms for Convex Optimization under Uncertainty"
Amin Hosseininasab
"Interpretable Learning and Pattern Mining: Scalable Algorithms and Data-Driven Applications"
Miroslav Karamanov
“Branch and Cut: An Empirical Study”
Ryo Kimura
"Modern Methodologies for Practical Discrete Optimization"
Zeynep Melda Korkut
“Bandit Algorithms for Recommender Systems”
Selvaprabu Nadarajah
"Approximate Dynamic Programming for Commodity and Energy Merchant Operations"
Thiago Serra
"Essays on Postoptimality, Lift-and-Project, and Scheduling" [abstract]
Negar Soheili Azad
"Elementary Algorithms for Solving Convex Optimization Problems"
John Turner
"Ad Slotting and Pricing: New Media Planning Models for New Media"
Yuyan Wang
“Foundations of Clustering: New Models and Algorithms”
Nan Xiong
"Empirical Study of Private Firms"
Hakan Yildiz
"Methodologies and Applications for Scheduling, Routing & Related Problems"
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Recent Proposals
Completed Dissertations
Ishani Aggarwal
"Cognitive Style Diversity in Teams"
Julia Bear
"'Passing the Buck': Incongruence Between Gender Role and Topic Leads to Avoidance of Negotiation"
Gerard Beenen
"An Achievement Goal Framework for Understanding the Learning-Performance Tension in Short-term Jobs"
Daylian Cain
"The Dirt on Coming Clean: The Perverse Effects of Disclosing Conflicts of Interest"
Elizabeth Campbell
"Essays on Gender Differences in Sponsorship and Hiring Decisions"
Jin Wook Chang
"The Effects of Intergroup Status on Intragroup Processes"
Klarissa Chang
"A Psychological Contract Perspective on Social Embeddedness and Knowledge Exchange"
Benjamin C. Collier
"Leadership Development in Core-Periphery Organizations"
Matthew A. Diabes
“Theory and Evidence of the Effects of Psychosocial Well-Being in Collaboration"
Erin Fahrenkopf
Kenneth Goh
"A Multi-Method Study of Iterative Processes in Creative Project Teams"
Jerry Guo
“Organizational Routines and Adaptability”
Pranav Gupta
“Transactive Systems Model of Collective Intelligence: The Emergence and Regulation of Collective Attention, Memory, and Reasoning”
Ki-Won Haan
“Building Better Ideas Together: Understanding the Influence of Individual and Contextual Characteristics on the Emergence of Transactivity”
Emily Haisley
"The Appeal of Lotteries and Their Use in Incentive Design"
Uriel Haran
"A Simple and Effective Way to Reduce Overprecision in Judgment"
Alessandro Iorio
“Essays on Individual Performance and Organizational Networks” [abstract]
Yeonjeong Kim
Jonathan Kush
"The Influence of Communication Networks and Turnover on TMS and Team Performance"
Kimberly S. Ling
"Sadness at Work: The Impact of Sadness on Information Perception, Search, and Use"
Anna Mayo
"Dynamic Teams: Exploring the Enabling Conditions and Outcomes of Coordination"
Lily Morse
"Bad Deeds for Good Friends: Maintaining Independence and Objectivity in the Workplace"
Benjamin Ostrowski
“Essays on Collective Creative Problem-Solving”
Jisoo Park
“Essays on Organizational Learning Processes and Outcomes in Healthcare”
Sae-Seul Park
“Essays on Human Capital and Organizational Performance”
Joseph Radzevick
"The Market for Overconfidence"
Sunita Sah
"Essays on Conflicts of Interest in Medicine"
Sam Swift
"Talking the Value Out of the Deal: Self-Perception and the Subjective Value of Negotiated Outcomes"
Gergana Todorova
"Resolving the Conflict-Creativity Tension in Functionally-Diverse Innovation Teams"
Nazli Turan
"Concession Frames in Distributive Negotiations"
Amanda Weirup
"Decisions about Workplace Favor Requests"
Courtney D. Williamson
Zachariah Sharek
"The Illusion of the Illusion of Control"
Evelyn Ying Zhang
"Intra-Organizational Mobility: Movers, Incumbents, and Communication Networks"
Joint Ph.D. Program: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization
Recent Proposals
Lin An
Anthony Karahalios
“Column Elimination for Integer Programs”
Lingqing Shen
“Scalable Algorithms and Performance Guarantees for Convex and Nonconvex Optimization”
Completed Dissertations
Amitabh Basu
"Corner Polyhedra and Maximal Lattice-free Convex Sets: A Geometric Approach to Cutting Planes"
David Bergman
"New Techniques for Discrete Optimization"
Daniel de Roux
“Outer approximation for semidefinite programs and a vector clock problem”
Stylianos Despotakis
"Expertise, Attribution, and Ad-Blocking in the World of Online Marketing"
Latife Genc-Kaya
"Hybrid Approaches to Scheduling and Clustering"
Vineet Goyal
"Combinatorial Optimization Under Uncertainty"
Arash Haddadan
"New Bounds on Integrality Gaps by Constructing Convex Combinations"
Samid Hoda
"Essays on Equilibrium Computation, MDD-based Constraint Programming and Scheduling"
Su Jia
“Learning and Earning under Noise and Uncertainty”
Yang Jiao
"Algorithms for Ranking and Routing Problems"
Jeremy Karp
"Models and Methods for Omni-channel Fulfillment"
Aleksandr Kazachkov
"Non-Recursive Cut Generation"
Thomas Lavastida
“On Scalable Algorithms and Algorithms with Predictions”
Dabeen Lee
"Cutting Planes and Integrality of Polyhedra: Structure and Complexity"
Qihang Lin
"Large-Scale Optimization for Machine Learning and Sequential Decision Making"
Marco Molinaro
"Understanding the Strength of General-Purpose Cutting Planes"
Viswanath Nagarajan
"Approximation Algorithms for Sequencing Problems"
Benjamin Peterson
"Transportation Scheduling Methods"
Andrea Qualizza
"Cutting Planes for Mixed Integer Programming"
Amin Sayedi
"Essays on Sponsored Search Advertising"
Mohit Singh
“Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization”
ZiyeTang
"Theoretical and Computational Methods for Network Design and Routing"
Christian Tjandraatmadja
"Decision Diagram Relaxations for Integer Programming"
Sercan Yildiz
"Valid Inequalities for Mixed Integer Linear and Mixed Integer Conic Programs"
Rudy Zhou
“On Combinatorial and Stochastic Optimization”
Michael (Mik) Zlatin
“Polyhedral and Algorithmic Approaches in Network Connectivity”
Joint Ph.D. Program: Behavioral Economics
Recent Proposals
Completed Dissertations
Joachim Talloen
"The Effects of the Presentation of Asset Price Information on Investor Biases"
Zachary Wojtowicz
Joint Ph.D. Program: Economics and Public Policy
Recent Proposals
Completed Dissertations
Jeff Brinkman
"Essays on Urban Agglomeration"
Leah Clark
"Three Essays on Economic Access to Public K-12 Education"
John Gardner
"The Labor Economics of the Great Migration”
Judy Geyer
"Essays in Housing Policy for Low-Income Households"
Ashlee Li
Jeff Lingwall
“An Economic History of Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws in the United States, 1810-1926”
Luis Quintero
"Essays on Specification and Estimation of Models of Markets for Heterogeneous Housing"
Abby Turner
"Three Essays on the Economics of Education"
Melanie A. Zaber
Joint Ph.D. Program: Management of Manufacturing and Automation
Completed Dissertations
Tinglong Dai
"Incentives in U.S. Healthcare Operations"
Guoming Lai
"Essays on Operations Management with Strategic Consumer Behavior, Real Earnings Management, and Capital Financing"
Ying Xu
"Impact of Information on Operations Management in Emerging Businesses”
Ronghuo Zheng
"Essays on Corporate Governance, Managerial Incentives, and Crowdfunding"
Yangfang Helen Zhou
"Managing Wind-based Electricity Generation and Storage"