Essays in Networks and Finance

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Abstract: This dissertation consists of three essays. "Asset Pricing Implications of Tunneling: Evidence from the Bombay Stock Exchange" develops a long-short equity portfolio that gives positive risk-adjusted returns. Moreover, the portfolio performs significantly better in down-market conditions as compared with up-market conditions. "Axiomatic Foundations of Centrality in Networks", provides an axiomatic characterization of Degree, Closeness and Decay centrality measures, and argues that such axiomatizations are the correct way to distinguish between centrality measures. Further, it shows that these three centrality measures belong to the same family of measures. In ``Long Run Effects of Colonial Education Policy" (with Latika Chaudhary) we document the historical persistence of differences in regional literacy rates in India. Moreover, we examine the long-term effects of colonial public spending in former British India on literacy rates in post-independence India.

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Copyright date	2011
Publication date	2010, c2011; 2010
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Associated with	Garg, Manuj
Associated with	Stanford University, Department of Economics
Primary advisor	Jackson, Matthew O
Thesis advisor	Jackson, Matthew O
Thesis advisor	Bloom, Nick, 1973-
Thesis advisor	Mahajan, Aprajit, 1973-
Advisor	Bloom, Nick, 1973-
Advisor	Mahajan, Aprajit, 1973-

Genre	Theses

Statement of responsibility	Manuj Garg.
Note	Submitted to the Department of Economics.
Thesis	Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011.
Location	electronic resource

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).

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