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Odendahl, Florens (Date of defense: 2018-10-08)
This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. Survey-based predictions ...
Souza, André B. M. (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)
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 ...
Ribó, Ausias (Date of defense: 2016-01-14)
This thesis is composed of 3 independent essays on economic theory. Each essay is meant to be read separately, including footnotes and appendices. In particular, essays 2 and 3 include specific bibliography. The general ...
Loviglio, Annalisa (Date of defense: 2019-06-12)
En esta tesis se analiza cómo el sistema educativo actual afecta el desarrollo del capital humano de los estudiantes. En el primer capítulo se explora la función de las escuelas; en el segundo, el sistema de puntuación, y ...
Bellés Obrero, Cristina Adelaida (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
This dissertation consists of three chapters that investigate students’ and teachers’ incentive programs, and the intergenerational infant health consequences of a labor market policy. In the first chapter, I perform a ...
Poitiers, Niclas Frederic (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
In countries in the developed world, income inequality is increasing, while technological and societal changes open labour market opportunities for women. At the same time they are undergoing an important demographical ...
El Hefnawy, Menatalla Maher Abdelgelil (Date of defense: 2020-07-06)
Aquesta tesi pretén descobrir, de manera empírica, nous aspectes de la secció transversal dels rendiments del capital i oferir explicacions teòriques i empíriques de les seves conclusions principals. La tesi documenta nous ...
Khametshin, Dmitry (Date of defense: 2017-12-18)
In the first two chapters of this thesis, I study the effects of financial stability policies on bank behavior. Thus, in the first chapter, I analyze whether liquidity provision mechanisms may have unintended redistributive ...
Montoya Squif, Ana María (Date of defense: 2017-07-03)
Debido a la preocupación por la estabilidad del sistema financiero los reguladores han adoptado diversas políticas regulatorias, algunas estructurales como también orientadas al comportamiento de los consumidores. Dichas ...
Fabiani, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
Do financial intermediaries influence firms’ (real and financial) outcomes? Are there interactions with monetary and macroprudential policy? This thesis tackles those questions from multiple perspectives. The first chapter ...
Stoerk, Thomas (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
This thesis consists of three chapters that investigate environmental policy questions from an empirical point of view. Chapter 1 examines the trustworthiness of official air pollution data sources for Beijing when compared ...
Perdomo Strauch, Alvaro Andrés (Date of defense: 2017-02-01)
This dissertation uses an experimental approach to analyze the behavior of people in controlled environments based in different theoretical issues of relatively recent discussion in macroeconomic theory. The first chapter ...
Chaoran, Sun (Date of defense: 2021-07-07)
Aquesta tesi estudia regles d’assignació justes i els seus problemes associats: què són, com implementar-les i com aplicar-les en entorns econòmics. Al capítol 1, introduïm les reduccions sense valor (v-f), que són operadors ...
Alharbey, Mohammed Abdullah (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
La present tesi consta de tres capítols empírics, tenint com a objectiu investigar les intencions dels inversors a equity crowdfunding (ECF), cadascun aplicant una teoria diferent sobre l’exploració dels factors que afecten ...
Gisbert i Rodríguez, Josep (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)
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 ...
Imbet Jiménez, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
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 ...
Pandolfi, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2018-01-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters contributing to the broad field of financial economics. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model of bank bail-ins in order to analyze the effects of the implementation ...
Gissler, Stefan (Date of defense: 2014-09-22)
Do market frictions influence asset prices? The first part examines whether financial intermediaries’ balance sheet capacity, their funding liquidity, can influence market liquidity, volatility, and price patterns. Using ...
Liaudinskas, Karolis (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial intermediaries ...
Goraya, Sampreet Singh (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation consists of three essays that investigate the drivers of misallocation of resources and its macroeconomic implications. The first chapter highlights the importance of the caste system in India in ...