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Essays in financial econòmics
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 ...
Essays in financial history
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 ...
Essays in financial intermediation
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 ...
Essays in firm dynamics and misallocation
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 ...
Essays in game theory and mechanism design
This thesis aims to understand negotiations over the behaviour agents will take in a game and, separately, robust implementation. Chapter 1 examines the binding agreements that result from a negotiation over what to ...
Essays in health and development economics
In the first chapter, I analyze the consequences of increased prenatal exposure to marijuana on infant health in the US. I combine individual-level information on birth outcomes with novel data on the location and opening ...
Essays in health and gender economics
This thesis consists of four independent articles. The rst two study the causal e ect of being born by cesarean section on child health. In the rst paper, we use data from Spain and show that avoidable unplanned ...
Essays in health and labour economics
The main objective of the thesis, organised along four different research chapters, is to analyse how labour market conditions are associated with different health outcomes and how the economic crisis has affected this ...
Essays in Health Economics
[eng] Health across the life cycle is an important component of well-being and quality of life. Bad health is linked to negative child and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes such as educational achievement, future health, ...
Essays in immigration economics and political economy
This thesis revolves around two themes. The first is whether granting citizenship to immigrant children at birth affects their parents’ return migration decisions and integration into the host-country society. Evaluating ...
Essays in industrial organisation
This thesis contains three chapters, each developing a theory and providing evidence on a unique and novel determinant of firms’ outcomes in the emerging and developed economies of 21st century. The first chapter examines ...
Essays in inflation expectations, monetary economics, and asset pricing
Es conocido que las expectativas juegan un papel importante en las decisiones de los agentes y son una característica fundamental en macroeconomía. Típicamente, en los modelos utilizados en macroeconomía es asumido que ...
Essays in information and asset pricing
Esta tesis estudia las características de la formación y del equilibrio de los precios de los activos financieros cuando los agentes que participan en los mercados están informados de forma asimétrica. En el primer capítulo ...
Essays in international and comparative corporate governance
El gobierno corporativo se refiere a como los proveedores de recursos de las empresas pueden tener un retorno de su inversión. En este sentido, Aoki (2001) define el gobierno corporativo como una “estructura que organiza ...
Essays in International Economics
Esta tesis consiste en tres ensayos independientes. Aunque unidos bajo un título, varían en los temas considerados y método escogido. El primer ensayo presenta un modelo de ciclos reales internacionales con rigideces reales ...
Essays in international finance
This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing economies. I present ...
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Trade
La tesis se divide en tres capítulos: En el capítulo 1 trato dos características de los modelos de ciclos económicos internacionales reales (IRBC) que chocan con lo que observamos en los datos: 1) correlaciones débiles ...
Essays in labor and education economics in Korea
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 ...
Essays in labor and organizational economics
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 ...
Essays in labor economics
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 ...
