This dissertation consists of three essays studying various issues in applied microeconomic theory.The first essay proposes a model of two-party elections in which voters' preferences over candidates is affected by their perception on candidates' sincerity. In equilibrium, the following...

This dissertation considers three topics in professional advising and forecasting. Chapter 1 examines a principal's optimal contracting with experts. In an environment where experts have heterogeneous private signal distributions and type dependent reservation utilities, we show that the...