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Essays on emerging markets

Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)

This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic pseudo panels, the ...

Essays on Emotions and Consumer Behavior in Culinary Contexts

Kaya, Sandra (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

This dissertation sheds light on the impact of emotions on consumer behavior within culinary contexts. Comprising three chapters, the research presents a holistic exploration through lab experiments and field studies. ...

Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing

Zhang, Xiang (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)

This thesis consists of three essays on empirical asset pricing around three themes: evaluating linear factor asset pricing models by comparing their misspecified measures, understanding the long-run risk on consumption-leisure ...

Essays on Empirical Evaluation of Development Programs

Yarygina Udovenko, Anastasiya (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)

Esta tesis presentada resultados de tres evaluaciones de impacto implementadas en países en desarrollo en América Latina. Los dos primeros estudios son evaluaciones realizadas por el método experimental (pruebas aleatorias ...

Essays on Environmental Economics: Environmental Compliance, Policy andGovernance

XU, Jing (Date of defense: 2012-07-12)

Esta tesis doctoral estudia distintos problemas de economía medioambiental, con un énfasis en la regulacción medioambiental (incluyendo políticas, aplicación y gobernanza) y en su cumplimiento por parte de las empresas. ...

Essays on Environmental Policy and Green Investment

Tchórzewska, Kinga Barbara (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)

This PhD thesis provides abundant empirical evidence on the effectiveness of environmental policy instruments alone and as a policy-mix, looking at its effect on green investment and employment. Finally, it also studies ...

Essays on Equality of Opportunity

Sapata, Christelle (Date of defense: 2012-06-05)

La teoría de la igualdad de oportunidad permite justificar algunas desigualdades: las desigualdades generadas por factores por el cual el individuo es responsable (llamados esfuerzo) son justas y no dan lugar a redistribución. ...

Essays on equality of opportunity and public policy

Salas, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)

Esta tesis se estructura en base a la noción de igualdad de oportunidades, concepto inicialmente propuesto por Arneson (1989), cuyas bases filosóficas se encuentran profundamente influidas por los planteos de Rawls (1971). ...

Essays on Estimation, Prediction and Evaluation of Insurance Risk

Pitarque Méndez, Albert (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)

[spa] Se puede definir el riesgo como la posibilidad de que un evento adverso o perjudicial ocurra. En el mundo de los negocios el riesgo se define como la posibilidad de que haya una pérdida económica inesperadamente ...

Essays on Expectations and Option Prices

Mehta, Gaurav (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)

A la meva tesi, explico diferents característiques empíriques dels preus de les opcions sobre accions mitjançant un marc que considera l’allunyament de les expectatives racionals. Les expectatives racionals assumeixen que ...

Essays on experimental economics: preference Reserval and networks

Gunes, Serife Basak (Date of defense: 2009-10-02)

Esta tesis utiliza un enfoque experimental para comprender las interacciones dentro de redes y percibir las decisiones causando inversión de preferencia (IP). El Capítulo 1 experimentalmente introduce comunicaciones no ...

Essays on Familiarity and Choice

Cerigioni, Francesco (Date of defense: 2016-06-14)

La tesis estudia los canales por los cuales las experiencias familiares influyen en el comportamiento individual a través de procesos psicológicos automáticos con el objetivo de conseguir una mejor comprensión de algunos ...

Essays on family, health Inequalities and labor dynamics

Kulikova, Yuliya (Date of defense: 2016-06-08)

En aquesta tesi, considero la família com la unitat encarregada de prendre decisions en l’economia i estudio les implicacions d’aquestes decisions per les desigualtats en indicadors de salut i del mercat laboral, dos ...

Essays on finance and development

Ponticelli, Jacopo (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)

This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter I study the effect of financial reform on firms. In particular, I study to what extent this effect depends on enforcement's quality. I ...

Essays on financial contagion

Urbina Calero, Jilber Andrés (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)

Esta tesis analiza el mecanismo de transmisión de la reciente Crisis Financiera Global de 2008 por medio del empleo de pruebas de hipótesis para determinar si el contagio ocurrió, la ausencia de contagio implica que la ...

Essays on financial intermediation and risk

Scherrieble, Willy (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)

This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in the German manufacturing ...

Essays on Financial Markets

Brychcy, Dawid (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)

1. En el primer capítulo “Impact of oil prices on international financial markets” se analiza el impacto de cambios en el precio de petróleo (barril WTI) y su volatilidad en los principales mercados de renta variable: DJIA, ...

Essays on firm behavior and productivity

Petrella, Andrea (Date of defense: 2017-11-06)

This thesis investigates different aspects of firm behavior. In the first chapter I study if the quality of civil justice affects the firms’ participation to Global Value Chains. I find that firms subject to less efficient ...

Essays on Firm Behavior in International Trade

Cilekoglu, Akin A. (Date of defense: 2023-11-13)

[eng] International trade experienced an unprecedented growth and the world economy has been more integrated than ever before in the last decades. During this period, access to international trade helped firms to produce ...

Essays on firm dynamics and financial markets

Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)

This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game condition in a model with ...