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Essays in applied economics
This thesis consists of four essays. In the first essay, I examine how the historical planter elite of the Southern US affected economic development at the county level between 1840 and 1960. I find that counties with a ...
Essays in applied economics
This thesis studies the role of policies aimed at facilitating communication on economic and political development. In the first chapter, I explore the relationship between long-term spatial persistence and trade. Using ...
Essays in applied economics
This thesis consists of two independent articles. In the first article, we examine the relationship between uncertainty and uncovered interest rate parity. It is well-known that uncovered interest rate parity does not ...
Essays in applied economics
This thesis is composed of three self-contained chapters. In the first chapter, I propose a theoretical model that shows that trusting strangers is one of the channels through which institutions determine positive economic ...
Essays in Applied Macreconomics
Aquesta tesi doctoral conté tres capítols en el camp de la macroeconomia aplicada. El capítol I estudia els efectes dels xocs de la política monetària convencionals i no convencionals sobre la desigualtat i la distribució ...
Essays in applied macroeconomics
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large effects in good ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of externalities and social interaction mechanisms in various settings. In the first chapter, I show how input heterogeneity triggers productivity spillovers at the workplace. ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first two chapters study the impact of pharmaceutical promotion of opioid analgesics in the US. In the first chapter, we find that counties, where sales representatives of ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first chapter studies a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru, and shows that it had a precisely estimated null impact on student learning. I ...
Essays in applied microeconomics
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters that empirically evaluate the influence of capital costs and occupational regulation on labor demand. In the first chapter, I study the effects of investment tax credits ...
Essays in applied microeconomics and behavioral finance
This thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I investigate how promo-tion incentives affect the performance of high-skilled public employees. I study a centralized evaluation process awarding the eligibility ...
Essays in applied-microeconomics and development
En esta tesis doctoral uso la micro-economía aplicada como herramienta para el rediseño de políticas públicas en países en desarrollo. Con esta herramienta, profundizo en la comprensión del porqué funcionan las políticas ...
Essays in Asset Pricing, Expectations and Monetary Policy
Aquesta tesi doctoral respon a qüestions relacionades amb la naturalesa dels cicles financers guiats per expectatives i la seva interacció amb la política monetària. Composta per tres capítols independents, aquesta tesi ...
Essays in Banking
El tema de esta tesis es Banca, concentrándose específicamente en el tema de Crisis Bancarias. El Capitulo 1 estudia las crisis bancarias que ocurren debido a problemas de asimetría de información entre los tomadores de ...
Essays in behavioral economics
This thesis comprises three chapters on topics in behavioral and experimental economics. In the first chapter, I show formally that, in a limited attention framework, the choices made by a decision maker who considers ...
Essays in Behavioural and Experimental Economics: Emotions, Uncertainty and Cooperation
In the first chapter of the dissertation I conduct a laboratory experiment in order to study the effect of incidental sadness and happiness on risky decision making. The analysis reveals that both sadness and happiness ...
Essays in behavioural economics
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and an experimental ...
Essays in business cycles with household heterogeneity
This thesis contributes to understanding how inequality affects the transmission of aggregate fluctuations through aggregate demand. First, we document how labor earnings inequality (between skilled and unskilled workers) ...
Essays in commodity price shocks in small open economies
This thesis contributes to the understanding of the effect and transmission of commodity price shocks in commodityexporting economies. The first chapter studies the role of domestic production linkages between the ...
Essays in contest theory: fostering competition in contests
Esta tesis consiste en tres capítulos sobre la Teoría de concursos. Esta teoría estudia situaciones en las cuáles individuos compiten entre sí para ganar un premio. El bajo rendimiento en concursos aparece naturalmente por ...
