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Essays in empirical banking and financial stability
In the first two chapters of this thesis, I study the effects of financial stability policies on bank behavior. Thus, in the first chapter, I analyze whether liquidity provision mechanisms may have unintended redistributive ...
Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization, Finance Market and Public Policies
Debido a la preocupación por la estabilidad del sistema financiero los reguladores han adoptado diversas políticas regulatorias, algunas estructurales como también orientadas al comportamiento de los consumidores. Dichas ...
Essays in empirical macro-finance
Do financial intermediaries influence firms’ (real and financial) outcomes? Are there interactions with monetary and macroprudential policy? This thesis tackles those questions from multiple perspectives. The first chapter ...
Essays in environmental economics
This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate environmental policy questions from an empirical point of view. Chapter 1 examines the trustworthiness of official air pollution data sources for Beijing when compared ...
Essays in experimental economics: some macroeconomic issues
This dissertation uses an experimental approach to analyze the behavior of people in controlled environments based in different theoretical issues of relatively recent discussion in macroeconomic theory. The first chapter ...
Essays in Fair Allocation Rules
Aquesta tesi estudia regles d’assignació justes i els seus problemes associats: què són, com implementar-les i com aplicar-les en entorns econòmics. Al capítol 1, introduïm les reduccions sense valor (v-f), que són operadors ...
Essays in Financial Behaviour: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding
La present tesi consta de tres capítols empírics, tenint com a objectiu investigar les intencions dels inversors a equity crowdfunding (ECF), cadascun aplicant una teoria diferent sobre l’exploració dels factors que afecten ...
Essays in financial economics
This dissertation studies financial technology adoption, learning from financial information, and inter-temporal decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter one examines the impact of bank branch closures on ...
Essays in financial economics
This dissertation studies the role of uncertainty and information in financial markets, and its consequences for firms’ and investors’ capital allocation decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter one revisits the ...
Essays in financial econòmics
This thesis consists of three chapters contributing to the broad field of financial economics. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model of bank bail-ins in order to analyze the effects of the implementation ...
Essays in financial history
Do market frictions influence asset prices? The first part examines whether financial intermediaries’ balance sheet capacity, their funding liquidity, can influence market liquidity, volatility, and price patterns. Using ...
Essays in financial intermediation
Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial intermediaries ...
Essays in firm dynamics and misallocation
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the drivers of misallocation of resources and its macroeconomic implications. The first chapter highlights the importance of the caste system in India in ...
Essays in game theory and mechanism design
This thesis aims to understand negotiations over the behaviour agents will take in a game and, separately, robust implementation. Chapter 1 examines the binding agreements that result from a negotiation over what to ...
Essays in health and development economics
In the first chapter, I analyze the consequences of increased prenatal exposure to marijuana on infant health in the US. I combine individual-level information on birth outcomes with novel data on the location and opening ...
Essays in health and gender economics
This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that avoidable unplanned ...
Essays in health and labour economics
The main objective of the thesis, organised along four different research chapters, is to analyse how labour market conditions are associated with different health outcomes and how the economic crisis has affected this ...
Essays in Health Economics
[eng] Health across the life cycle is an important component of well-being and quality of life. Bad health is linked to negative child and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes such as educational achievement, future health, ...
Essays in immigration economics and political economy
This thesis revolves around two themes. The first is whether granting citizenship to immigrant children at birth affects their parents’ return migration decisions and integration into the host-country society. Evaluating ...
Essays in industrial organisation
This thesis contains three chapters, each developing a theory and providing evidence on a unique and novel determinant of firms’ outcomes in the emerging and developed economies of 21st century. The first chapter examines ...
