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Essays on Skilled Labor Force and Structural Transformations

Armas, Cynthia (Date of defense: 2022-06-15)

Besides introduction and conclusions, the thesis is composed by three theoretical and empirical chapters that investigate the allocation of skilled workers during structural transformation. Specifically, the second chapter ...

Essays on skills formation

Duchini, Emma (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)

This thesis examines the role of public policies and institutions in fostering human capital formation and utilization. In the first chapter, I analyze the impact of college remedial courses on students’ performance and ...

Essays on social conflict

Conte, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2015-02-24)

Esta tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo profundizar el conocimiento de los principales determinantes de la delincuencia y de la violencia, en las regiones en desarrollo y en las desarrolladas. La tesis busca informar el ...

Essays on Social Groups: Inequality, Influence and the Structure of Interactions

Cuhadaroglu, Tugce (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)

Uno de los principales problemas en economía siempre ha sido entender y formalizar la relación dinámica entre lo individual y lo social. Esta tesis incluye dos perspectivas complementarias para explorar esta importante ...

Essays on social networks and behavioral economics

Melguizo López, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-07-14)

Los individuos a menudo exhiben robustos patrones de comportamiento al relacionarse con otros y cuando toman decisiones económicas. Por ejemplo, tienden a interactuar de manera desproporcionada con otros similares a ellos. ...

Essays on social networks and cooperation: the case of natural resources

Marco Renau, Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-07-16)

This thesis revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. We analyze the role of social networks and social pressure as driving forces for the establishment and maintenance of cooperation in resource use under variable ...

Essays on social pressure: choice and dis(honesty)

Okcuoglu, Dilan (Date of defense: 2017-10-09)

Human behavior is strongly affected by social factors such as norms or social pressure, and economic decision making is not an exception. The impact of self and social image considerations is well documented in decisions ...

Essays on Sovereign Debt Crises and Macroeconomic Volatility

Brutti, Filippo (Date of defense: 2010-02-11)

Income growth is much more volatile in developing countries than in developed ones. One argument is that weak legal and political institutions exacerbate macroeconomic shocks precipitating the economy into widespread crises. ...

Essays on sovereign debt markets

Lanau Grau, Sergi (Date of defense: 2008-10-22)

Aquesta tesis anal.litza les Clausules d'Acció Col.lectiva i les Clàusules de Precedència quan: 1) el repagament és endogen i depèn d'un esforç de lobbying dels creditors. 2) el litigi és purament redistributiu. Hi ha una ...

Essays On Spatial Panel Econometrics

Miranda Gualdron, Karen Alejandra (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)

Aquesta tesi proposa una metodologia per identificar i estimar externalitats espacials associades als efectes inviduals en models per a dades de panell. La clau d'aquest nou enfocament és l'ús d'una especificació d'efectes ...

Essays on statistical inference in non-regular semiparametric models

Lee, Adam (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)

This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in semiparametric models which ...

Essays on sticky prices, aggregate investment and monetary policy.

Weinke, Lutz (Date of defense: 2005-03-31)

La tesis estudia la relación entre las inversiones y la inflación. El primer capitulo muestra que esta relación es más simple (en el contexto de un modelo del tipo neo-keynesiano) de lo que la literatura anterior ha ...

Essays on structural transformations: remittances, fertility and informality

Garofalo, Arianna (Date of defense: 2023-02-06)

[eng] The thesis is composed of an introduction, conclusions, and three chapters that investigate three characteristics of developing countries: structural change, fertility, and informality. In Chapter 2, co-authored ...

Essays on Sustainable Consumption

Aral, Öykü H. (Date of defense: 2022-05-24)

El clima està canviant, i les accions humanes en són les principals responsables. Per tant, comprendre la naturalesa dels comportaments ambientals dels consumidors ajudarà a dissenyar millors polítiques ambientals per a ...

Essays on Tail Risks in Macroeconomics

Garrón Vedia, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2023-07-14)

[eng] This thesis contributes to two problems identified in the literature: i) How do US financial conditions impact funding markets (credit and stocks) in a large set of countries around the world under different scenarios ...

Essays on Tax Administration

Salvadori, Luca (Date of defense: 2015-04-27)

Tax administration is central to the working of any tax system. This thesis focuses on the Spanish case and proves the existence of two kind of externalities that might arise in tax administration policies when decentralized. ...

Essays on the allocation of talent

Figueiredo, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)

This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education returns has an ...

Essays on the art museum experience: a cultural sociology perspective

Pérez Rubiales, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-12-04)

Ensayos sobre la experiencia de ver arte en museos: un análisis desde la sociología cultural se estructura entorno a dos trabajos de investigación sobre las dimensiones emocional y social de ...

Essays on the bank lending channel

Soto, Paul Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)

This thesis contributes to the understanding of how banks shift their supply of credit when confronted with uncertainty, regulatory supervision and macroprudential policies. The first chapter proposes a new index to detect ...

Essays on the banking sector: capital, structure, productivity and bank restructuring

Llorens Llorens, Vanesa (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)

[eng] This dissertation thesis analyzes the determinants of the capital ratio of banks and also the dynamics of the leverage ratio, exploring the driving forces of the issuance of debt and capital instruments. My thesis ...