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Essays in applied macroeconomics
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large effects in good ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of externalities and social interaction mechanisms in various settings. In the first chapter, I show how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers at the workplace. ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first two chapters study the impact of pharmaceutical promotion of opioid analgesics in the US. In the first chapter, we find that counties, where sales representatives of ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first chapter studies a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru, and shows that it had a precisely estimated null impact on student learning. I ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters that empirically evaluate the influence of capital costs and occupational regulation on labor demand. In the first chapter, I study the effects of investment tax credits ...
Essays in applied microeconomics and behavioral finance
This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate how promo-tion incentives affect the performance of high-skilled public employees. I study a centralized evaluation process awarding the eligibility ...
Essays in applied-microeconomics and development
En esta tesis doctoral uso la micro-economía aplicada como herramienta para el rediseño de políticas públicas en países en desarrollo. Con esta herramienta, profundizo en la comprensión del porqué funcionan las políticas ...
Essays in Asset Pricing, Expectations and Monetary Policy
Aquesta tesi doctoral respon a qüestions relacionades amb la naturalesa dels cicles financers guiats per expectatives i la seva interacció amb la política monetària. Composta per tres capítols independents, aquesta tesi ...
Essays in Banking
El tema de esta tesis es Banca, concentrándose específicamente en el tema de Crisis Bancarias. El Capitulo 1 estudia las crisis bancarias que ocurren debido a problemas de asimetría de información entre los tomadores de ...
Essays in behavioral economics
This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the first chapter, I show formally that, in a limited attention framework, the choices made by a decision maker who considers ...
Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics: Emotions, Uncertainty and Cooperation
In the first chapter of the dissertation I conduct a laboratory experiment in order to study the effect of incidental sadness and happiness on risky decision making. The analysis reveals that both sadness and happiness ...
Essays in behavioural economics
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and an experimental ...
Essays in business cycles with household heterogeneity
This thesis contributes to understanding how inequality affects the transmission of aggregate fluctuations through aggregate demand. First, we document how labor earnings inequality (between skilled and unskilled workers) ...
Essays in commodity price shocks in small open economies
This thesis contributes to the understanding of the effect and transmission of commodity price shocks in commodityexporting economies. The first chapter studies the role of domestic production linkages between the ...
Essays in contest theory: fostering competition in contests
Esta tesis consiste en tres capítulos sobre la Teoría de concursos. Esta teoría estudia situaciones en las cuáles individuos compiten entre sí para ganar un premio. El bajo rendimiento en concursos aparece naturalmente por ...
Essays in corporate finance
La presente tesis estudia como las decisiones de estructura de deuda y de cobertura de riesgo de las empresas afectan a su nivel de inversión en activo fijo. En primer capítulo se centra en construir hechos estilizados ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Innovation
Las inversiones corporativas en innovación crean nuevos conocimientos tecnológicos, que son la causa principal del crecimiento económico. Por lo tanto, es fundamental comprender los determinantes de las inversiones en ...
Essays in development and applied economics
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. I exploit the introduction of genetically ...
Essays in Development and Environmental Economics
Fighting poverty and protecting the environment are two of the most urgent challenges facing the international community at the start of the 21st century (United Nations, 2015). One aspect that will be crucial in this ...
Essays in Development Economics
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and crime economics. This ...
