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Essays on the role of social status and beliefs on intergenerational mobility

Leites Lamela, Martin (Date of defense: 2015-09-25)

Estos ensayos realizan una contribución teórica y empírica para la mejor comprensión del papel del estatus social en la movilidad intergeneracional de ingresos. Teorías sociológicas enfatizan el papel del estatus social ...

Essays on the Spanish Macroeconomy

Pino Alcalde, Adrián (Date of defense: 2016-10-25)

Esta tesis doctoral intenta arrojar luz en dos temas macroeconomicos de gran actualidad en la economía española. El diseño del sistema de Seguridad Social, y la economía sumergida. En el primer capitulo desarrollo un ...

Essays on the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy

Moschitz, Julius (Date of defense: 2004-09-23)

Esta tesis estudia los efectos y la eficacia de la política monetaria. A grandes rasgos, el banco central cambia los tipos de interés a corto plazo y, a través de la estructura temporal, también se ven afectados los tipos ...

Essays on the value of accounting disclosure on capital markets

Platikanova, Petya (Date of defense: 2010-03-03)

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how capital markets interpret accounting disclosure. In three empirical studies, I evaluate the role that accounting disclosure plays in evaluating financial prospects and facilitating ...

Essays on the Venezuelan economy

Santos, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2016-09-05)

Fifteen years into the twentieth century, Venezuela displays the same income per capita than in 1955. Sixty years of stagnation, where the country managed to elude its portentous luck in the natural resource lottery. This ...

Essays on the world wheat economy (1939-2010)

González Esteban, Ángel Luis (Date of defense: 2017-07-11)

This thesis is concerned with the world wheat economy between 1939 and 2010, which may seem somewhat surprising for several reasons. First, the history of wheat is inextricably tied up with the evolution of world agriculture ...

Essays on time-consistency of optimal fiscal policy

Domínguez Manzano, Begoña (Date of defense: 2002-07-11)

Esta tesis tiene cuatro capítulos que exploran el papel de la deuda pública en el problema de la inconsistencia temporal de la política fiscal óptimal. El Capítulo 1 resume la literatura existente en el área de inconsistencia ...

Essays on total factor productivity, innovation, education and training: The role of size in Spanish manufacturing firms

Castany Teixidor, Laia (Date of defense: 2007-06-18)

A) OBJECTIVES AND HYPOTHESES:<br/><br/>The main purpose of this PhD thesis is analysing the behaviour of different factors that contribute to increase total factor productivity (TFP) in the context of Spanish manufacturing ...

Essays on trade agreements

Ptashkina, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)

This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel empirical method used ...

Essays on trade and technology

Fadinger, Harald (Date of defense: 2008-10-03)

El objetivo de la primera parte es de investigar diferencias de productividad entre países de una perspectiva de economía abierta utilizando un modelo de equilibrio mundial con comercio internacional. Este enfoque me permite ...

Essays on trade integration and firm dynamics

Buono, Inés (Date of defense: 2008-10-29)

This thesis deals with the integration of firms into export markets when trade barriers decrease. It consists in three chapters.<br/><br/>The first chapter focuses on how cross-industry differences in factor intensities ...

Essays on Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining

Pérez Sanz, Rubén (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)

Els sindicats han estat en declivi durant els darrers 50 anys, mentre que la desigualtat ha crescut de forma constant durant el mateix període de temps. L’erosió del poder de negociació dels sindicats és un dels factors ...

Essays on Trade, Productivity and Specialization

Fleiss Weinberger, Pablo Enrique (Date of defense: 2010-01-20)

Aunque las diferencias entre países en la productividad total de los factores (TFP) sectorial está en el corazón de la teoría Ricardiana de comercio y en el de muchos modelos de crecimiento y desarrollo, muy poco se sabe ...

Essays on Two-Sided Markets

Hanold, Sven (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)

Si bien algunas plataformas de mercados bilaterales, como los periódicos, han estado operando durante cientos de años, la prevalencia y el dominio más recientes de gigantes tecnológicos como FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix ...

Essays on two-sided markets and venture capitalist compensation

Sun, Keke (Date of defense: 2015-11-06)

Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura sobre plataformas bilaterales y compensaciones a gestores de capital de riesgo. Las plataformas bilaterales reúnen dos grupos de usuarios interdependientes entre sí, y permiten cierta ...

Essays on uncertainties and its implications on emerging markets

Alsagr, Naif Abdulrahman (Date of defense: 2022-01-10)

En tres nous assajos centrats en els "mercats emergents", aquesta tesi proposa explorar les implicacions dels múltiples índexs d'incertesa sobre les variables econòmiques i financeres. Més precisament, el primer capítol ...

Essays on uncertainty, monetary policy and financial stability

Schlaepfer, Alain (Date of defense: 2016-06-10)

In the first chapter, I examine both theoretically and empirically how income uncertainty affects the effectiveness of monetary policy. I consider income risk from potential unemployment, and find that monetary policy has ...

Essays on universities and economic development

García Estévez, Javier (Date of defense: 2013-01-11)

This dissertation seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the roles that universities currently play in economic development. This topic is particularly relevant in the current situation, in the aftermath of the ...

Essays on Urban Economics

Tassinari, Filippo (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)

In this dissertation I aim at documenting costs and benefits of cities through the lenses of transport economics. In the second chapter of this dissertation, I analyse on the long-term economic effects of transportation ...

Essays on Urban Economics

González Pampillón, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2018-06-25)

This thesis contributes with empirical evidence on policies that attempt to reduce spatial inequalities and also studying the drivers of residential segregation. Specifically, the second chapter assesses the impact on ...