Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Flexibility in Platform Operations 

      Zhao, Jiayu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      This thesis studies how modern service platforms, through algorithmic and market design, leverage agents’ flexibility to enhance operational efficiency. The last decade has witnessed the booming growth of such platforms ...

    • Essays on Environmental Regulation 

      Aspelund, Karl Milutin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      I focus on three challenges that often confront regulators in designing environmental regulations around the world: equity-efficiency tradeoffs, incomplete information, and significant ecologic and economic uncertainty ...

    • Dynamics of Group Decision-Making 

      Orzach, Roi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-05)
      This thesis comprises three chapters, all focused on Microeconomic Theory, specifically the dynamics of decision-making. The first explores how the desire for conformity results in long-run misperceptions due to uninformative ...