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Essays in non-market strategies
This dissertation consists of three papers examining the implications of non-market strategies in corporations and mutual funds. The first chapter quantifies the importance of political connections to congressional ...
Essays in organizational economics
New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation ...
Essays in political economy and finance
This thesis explores the interactions between the political and corporate environment. In the first chapter, I examine the high concentration of headquarters in capital cities and the incentives for firms to locate in close ...
Essays in Rational Inattention and Market Microstructure
En la meva dissertació, dono una explicació a diferents anomalies de preus dels actius en el mercat financer a l'caracteritzar els conjunts d'informació dels que interactuen en ell mateix. En particular, estudi dels efectes ...
Essays in safe assets: trends, drivers and implications for financial stability
This dissertation consists of three chapters centred on safe assets, shedding light on different aspects of the growing literature on the subject. Chapter 1 introduces the set of assets that falls under the safe category, ...
Essays in structural macroeconometrics
This thesis is concerned with the structural estimation of macroeconomic models via Bayesian methods and the economic implications derived from its empirical output. The first chapter provides a general method for estimating ...
Essays in the economics of health and wellbeing
The three chapters of this thesis investigate different aspects of the economics of health and wellbeing. The first chapter tests the rationality of life satisfaction forecasts. Contrary to the rational expectations ...
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 ...
Essays in the economics of migration
This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I ...
Essays in the political economy of redistribution and nation formation
Esta tesis doctoral sobre todo explora los efectos de la desigualdad de ingresos y otras formas de heterogeneidad —con especial consideración hacia diferencias regionales— sobre la voluntad individual de implementar planes ...
Essays in theory of the firm and indivisual decision making experiments
Esta tesis se compone de dos partes separadas y sin relación entre ellas. El primer capítulo, coautorado con el Profesor Greg Barron, es un experimento en toma de decisiones individuales. Este capítulo se construye a partir ...
Essays in time series econometrics
This doctoral thesis develops new methods for time series analysis and applies these to prominent empirical problems in macroeconomics. It contains three chapters. Chapter one proposes a new non-parametric generalized method ...
Essays in volatility estimation based on high frequency data
Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. The first chapter ...
Essays on Absorptive Capacity, ICT, Spatial Externalities, and Regional Growth
The objective of this thesis is to make a theoretical and empirical contribution, decoding the nature of productivity disparities across different economic actors, and providing reflections for policy advice. One of the ...
Essays on agent heterogeneity in macroeconomics
In my Ph.D. thesis, I study the subjects of monetary economics, heterogeneity of households and firms, and optimal policy. I solve models with rich heterogeneity and use statistical models to work with time series macro ...
Essays on Aggregate Productivity
Aquesta tesis tracta sobre les diferències en la productivitat agregada del treball entre diferents economies. Gran part de la diversitat en rendes que observem entre països té a veure amb les diferències en productivitat. ...
Essays on Agriculture and Sectoral Composition in Developing Countries
In this thesis I study observed patterns of structural change in developing countries and how differences in sectoral composition affect economic growth and economic policy. In particular, in chapter one I ask how does ...
Essays on assignment markets: Vickrey outcome and Walrasian Equilibrium
This thesis is devoted mainly to the study of assignment problems in two- sided markets. The thesis is divided into three parts. The underlying objective of this division is to provide different perspectives to the analysis ...
Essays on atmospheric emissions and environmental policy
The problem of atmospheric pollution is one of the major concerns about damaging effects of human activities on the environment. Some of the gases released into the atmosphere known as greenhouse gases (GHG) have a global ...
Essays on bank internal governance and credit risk
Aquesta tesis pretén explorar els determinants del incompliment de préstecs bancaris i la relació entre els controls interns, les característiques del consell d’administració i del risc de crèdit en la banca europea. Dades ...
