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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 ...
Essays in development economics
En esta tesis doctoral, utilizo estrategias empíricas en economía aplicada para proporcionar evidencias cuantitativas que pueden ayudar a mejorar las políticas de bienestar en los países en desarrollo. Mi principal objetivo ...
Essays in development economics
This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness in Ghana, and study ...
Essays in development economics
This thesis consists of three independent chapters which all utilize primary data from Sierra Leone. The first chapter uses a field experiment to show that financial incentives maximize output in an hierarchical organization ...
Essays in development, environmental, and health economics
This thesis is composed of three independent essays. In the first chapter, I analyze the effect of a biofuel-favorable policy in the U.S. on fetal health. I show that the policy led to an expansion in the production of ...
Essays in economic forecasting
This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. Survey-based predictions ...
Essays in economic forecasting
This dissertation consists of two independent chapters on economic and financial forecasting. The first chapter introduces a nonlinear forecasting framework that combines forecasts of the sign and absolute value of a ...
Essays in Economic Theory
This thesis is composed of 3 independent essays on economic theory. Each essay is meant to be read separately, including footnotes and appendices. In particular, essays 2 and 3 include specific bibliography. The general ...
Essays in economics of education
En esta tesis se analiza cómo el sistema educativo actual afecta el desarrollo del capital humano de los estudiantes. En el primer capítulo se explora la función de las escuelas; en el segundo, el sistema de puntuación, y ...
