The purpose of this paper is to consider if Amazon’s increase in private label brands is the tipping point for transforming the e-commerce giant into a monopoly. To lay the foundation, we initially explore the culture, leadership, and business practices which are unique to Amazon that enabled...

Temporary price reductions or sales account for a small fraction of price quotes and a large fraction of items sold. Nevertheless, several recent macroeconomic studies have concluded that sales are not an important source of price flexibility. Using a large set of scanner data covering 31...

The dissertation studies the effect of trade liberalization in one sector on factor prices, employment, and average productivity of firms in the other sector (spillover effect) in a two-country, specific-factors model of international trade where the industry structure of the sector affected by...

My dissertation evaluates technology adoption and transfer both theoretically and empirically, with the goal of providing new insights into the consequences of technology adoption -- an area that remains understudied in the macroeconomic literature. The first chapter introduces and summarizes...