Three Essays in International Economics by Samuel E. Haltenhof A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Economics) in The University of Michigan 2019 Doctoral Committee: Assistant Professor Javier Cravino, Co-Chair Professor Andrei Levchenko, Co-Chair Professor Alan Deardorff Professor Kathryn Dominguez Assitant Professor Sebastian Sotelo Samuel E. Haltenhof
[email protected] ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9270-5635 ©Samuel E. Haltenhof 2019 DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my family, those by blood and those by choice. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to my advisers, Andrei Levchenko, Javier Cravino, Alan Deardorff, Sebastian Sotelo, and Dominick Bartelme for their indispensable guidance, support and encouragement throughout the doctoral program. I would like to thank the faculty and doctoral students of the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan for their feedback and encouragement as well. I would like to acknowledge financial support from Rackham Graduate School as well as The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) for data provision and support. iii PREFACE This dissertation uses the weakly anonymous Establishment History Panel (Years 1992 - 2014). Data access was provided via on-site use at the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and/or remote data access. Data documentation by Alexandra Schmucker, Johanna Eberle, Andreas Ganzer, Jens Stegmaier, Matthias Umkehrer (2018): Establishment History Panel 1975-2016. FDZ-Datenreport, 01/2018 (en), Nuremberg. DOI: 10.5164/IAB.FDZD.1801.en.v1.