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Essays in monetary economics

Ohanyan, Narek (Date of defense: 2023-06-07)

This thesis studies the optimal conduct of monetary policy in the presence of nominal and informational frictions. The first chapter studies the optimal policy in a small open economy model with external asset holdings. ...

Essays in network modelling

Gudmundsson, Gudmundur Stefan (Date of defense: 2018-07-11)

This thesis consists of two chapters on time series modelling. The ﬁrst chapter introduces a class of vector autoregressive (VAR) models with a community structure for large panels of time series. In the model, the series ...

Essays in non-market strategies

Zhou, Feng (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

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

Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)

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

Stahl, Jörg Rolf (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)

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

Contreras Eitner, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)

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

Castells Jauregui, Madalen (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)

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

Pérez Forero, Fernando José (Date of defense: 2013-06-18)

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

Schwandt, Hannes (Date of defense: 2012-06-19)

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

Donati, Dante (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)

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

Willis, Sébastien (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)

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

Flamand, Sabine (Date of defense: 2012-06-26)

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

Ursino, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2009-10-28)

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

Flores, Jairo (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)

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

Sun, Yucheng (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)

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

Jung, Juan (Date of defense: 2017-09-04)

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

Smirnov, Danila (Date of defense: 2023-06-12)

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

Grobovsek, Jan (Date of defense: 2012-06-07)

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

Blanco Aguirre, Cesar Francisco (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)

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

Robles Jiménez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2017-06-09)

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 ...