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Choi, Hoon (Date of defense: 2018-05-03)
This thesis provides an analysis of the problems associated with the dual labor market structure and credentialism in Korea. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the effectiveness of an education policy in Korea that regulates operating ...
Black Henriques, Inês (Date of defense: 2018-06-06)
En esta tesis doctoral, he explorado el rol de las características no observados de los recursos humanos en la definición de la productividad organizacional. La literatura económica ha establecido que existen diferenciales ...
Filatov, Alexey (Date of defense: 2018-07-27)
Aquesta tesi persegueix els objectius següents. En primer lloc, estudia els factors que impulsen el creixement constant tant en la participació de la mà d'obra com en les hores per treballador de persones majors, persones ...
Hafner, Flavio (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility can improve the labor ...
Jagadits, András (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
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 ...
Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay unemployed and wait ...
Okulicz, Danisz (Date of defense: 2019-09-09)
En esta tesis se investigará el rol de la información asimétrica en el mercado de los servicios legales. En particular, se estudiará cómo los agentes individuales desinformados interactúan con abogados y agentes corporativos ...
Ghifrani, Erfan (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
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’ ...
Xavier, Inés (Date of defense: 2021-07-01)
This thesis investigates how asset markets affect macroeconomic outcomes and inequality. In the first chapter, I study the contribution of return heterogeneity for wealth inequality. First, I document that wealthier U.S. ...
Einarsson, Bjarni F. (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 presents a method for online evaluation of the optimality of the current stance of monetary policy given the most up to date data available. ...
Wang, Yiru (Date of defense: 2020-06-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 proposes a method to analyze the relationship between models’ in-sample fit and their out-of-sample density forecasting performance. To this ...
Gánics, Gergely Ákos (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 provides a novel estimator of combination weights which delivers well-calibrated density forecasts. In an empirical example of forecasting ...
Zoi, Sarah (Date of defense: 2022-06-15)
Aquesta tesi és el resultat del treball desenvolupat durant els meus estudis de doctorat al Departament d’Economia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Consta de tres Capítols relacionats amb tres temes diferents de ...
Hoesch, Lukas (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 develops a hypothesis test to evaluate economic models and their forecasts robust to instabilities. The test is particularly powerful in ...
Brückner, Markus (Date of defense: 2010-11-15)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines empirically the relationship<br/>between foreign aid and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries. Instrumental<br/>variables techniques are used ...
Morazzoni, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows that student loans ...
Parkhomenko, Andrii (Date of defense: 2017-06-02)
Esta tesis estudia cómo las barreras y distorsiones en el mercado de trabajo y el mercado inmobiliario afectan la productividad de una economía. El capítulo 1 de la tesis, “El Aumento de la Regulación en Mercados ...
Mantovani, Cristiano (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution ...
Queirós, Francisco (Date of defense: 2018-06-26)
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first two chapters are on the topic of asset bubbles. In the first chapter, I study the interactions between rational asset bubbles and product market competition. ...
Chiavari, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
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 ...