Chapter 1: In the introductory chapter, I place my thesis in an empirical research tradition going back to the mid-19S0s, investigating the economics of technological change. Key issues have been the private and social returns ...

This paper provides a novel, simple, and computationally tractable method for determining an identified set that can account for a broad set of economic models when the economic variables are discrete. Using this method, ...

Game theory is the standard method in economics used to analyse situations where people or firms interact, for example, auctions, bargaining, cooperation, markets with a small number of firms, and many other social ...