Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Essays on Economic Growth and Innovation 

      Lensman, Todd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      A foundational observation by Robert Solow holds that long-run economic growth is primarily driven by the innovation and adoption of new technologies (Solow, 1957). This set of essays provides new theory and evidence to ...

    • Essays in Industrial Organization 

      Dix, Rebekah A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      This thesis comprises three essays on industrial organization. The first chapter, joint with Todd Lensman, studies the innovation of cancer drug combination therapies. Innovations often combine several components to achieve ...

    • Essays in Environmental and Supply Chain Topics in Finance 

      Zhang, Henry H. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      This thesis comprises three essays in finance. The first two essays study how liquidity provision by the financial sector affects firms’ production decisions in response to shocks. The third essay studies the real and ...