Essays on the Effects of Public Policy

This dissertation presents three papers on the effects of public policy on market outcomes. In the first paper, I analyze the effects of trade liberalization on firm labor market power in Brazil. I find that while Brazil’s 1990s trade liberalization significantly lowered wages and increased labor ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felix Silva, Mayara Priscila
Other Authors: Olken, Benjamin A.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138970
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3761-0967