Programa de Doctorat en Economia, Finances i Empresa: Recent submissions
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Three essays in applied econometrics
In this dissertation, first, I study the effects of broadband internet on individual and regional outcomes. Second, I provide an overview of the political espionage activities of the former East German secret service, ...
Essays on board of directors composition and firm outcomes
This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk ...
Essays in learning uncertainty
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ ...
Essays in macroeconomics and firm dynamics
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel quantitative firm dynamics ...
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 labor economics and structural change
This thesis studies questions at the intersection of labor economics and the literature of structural change. The first chapter empirically assesses the impact of emigration on structural change. Exploiting plausibly ...
Essays on high-dimensional bayesian inference
This thesis studies the capabilities of Bayesian estimators in high-dimen-sional generalised linear models, with a particular focus on treatment effect estimation. The first of four chapters provides the necessary ...
Essays on statistical inference in non-regular semiparametric models
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 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 the economics of information
This dissertation consists of three essays that empirically test economic theories on the causal effect of information on individuals and firms. The first chapter studies the consequences of lower consumer search costs ...
The Macroeconomic implications of learning by shopping
Empirical evidence suggests that consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other words, they learn by shopping. This dissertation studies the implications of this information friction ...
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 applied economics
This thesis consists of two independent articles. In the first article, we examine the relationship between uncertainty and uncovered interest rate parity. It is well-known that uncovered interest rate parity does not ...
Essays on the economic psychology of well-being
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct ...
How new technologies change politics
This dissertation investigates how new technologies such as social media, digitalizing workplaces, and robotization change society and politics. The first chapter focuses on new technologies affecting the democratic ...
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 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 on gender, development and human capital investment
This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian garment industry 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 applied economics
This thesis studies the role of policies aimed at facilitating communication on economic and political development. In the first chapter, I explore the relationship between long-term spatial persistence and trade. Using ...
