This paper studies the effect of credit market competition, measured by the bargaining power of banks, on the agency costs of debt finance. The threshold of obtaining loan finance is shown to be independent of the relative bargaining power of the financier, while intensified credit market competition leads to lower lending rates and investment return distributions with lower, but less risky ret...

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom about bargaining and war. If more than two players bargain, or if war can end in stalemate, then a bargain that all actors prefer to war may not exist—even if there are no information problems, commitment problems, principal agent problems, alliance dynamics, or indivisible goods. Existing models generate a bargaining range because they artificially...

While there are many positive societal implications of increased female labor force opportunities, working may increase a woman’s risk of suffering domestic violence. Using a dataset I collected in sixty villages outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, I document a positive correlation between work and domestic violence, but only among women with less education or who were younger at first marriage. Thes...

Device-to-Device (D2D) technology underlying the cellular network is an attractive solution for future generation network to increase cellular traffic offloading. In order to reduce the interference caused to cellular network, D2D users can opportunistically access the cellular spectrum using cognitive radio capabilities. They can either avoid interference by transmitting on the spectrum wholes...