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Potlogea, Andrei Victor (Date of defense: 2016-07-06)
This thesis provides an investigation of the effects of trade, technology and natural resource shocks on local economies and local labor markets. In the first chapter, I explore theoretically the impact of recent improvements ...
Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)
This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction in trade costs ...
Santamaría, Marta (Santamaría Monturiol) (Date of defense: 2019-09-09)
This thesis explores how different types of trade costs shape trade patterns and the distribution of economic activity across space. In the first chapter, I study how the choice of transport infrastructure after the division ...
Hedtrich, Christoph (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first addresses the recent decline in worker mobility between jobs and links it to changes in demand for jobs along the skill distribution. I present a novel theoretical ...
Laureys, Lien (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of the labor market and economic policy. Chapter 1 analyzes whether the presence of human capital depreciation during unemployment calls for policy intervention. I ...
Surovtseva, Tetyana (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
In Part I of this thesis, I show that, when immigrants’ host and home countries engage in trade, labor market returns to cultural capital specific to the trading partner increase. Using two trade liberalization episodes, ...
Llorens-Terrazas, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-09-05)
This thesis comprises three essays on statistical learning theory for time series. In the first chapter, joint with Christian Brownlees, we propose an alternative specification of a dynamic conditional correlation model ...
Ambrocio, Gene (Date of defense: 2015-09-29)
This dissertation focuses on learning and expectations formation in Macroeconomics and Finance and the role of information production in shaping macroeconomic fluctuations. The first chapter provides a theory of information ...
Umlauft, Roland (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
In Chapter 1 I investigate the economic importance of correlation in mutual fund flows for funds with overlapping portfolio positions. I illustrate theoretically that commonality in trading by funds due to flow correlation ...
Garvin, Nicholas (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured lending, relative ...
Daniele, Federica (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
This thesis is composed of three essays in which I analyze how heterogeneity in productivity, either on the worker or on the firm side, interacts with the size of local labor markets and a set of outcomes of interest. In ...
Artiles, Miriam (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
In the first chapter, I study how human populations adapt to ethnically diverse societies. Using new data on a natural experiment from Peru’s colonial history, the results show that ethnic diversity need not spell poor ...
Hernández-Pizarro, Helena M. (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
This thesis analyses the effects of expanding public Long-Term Care (LTC) benefits in Spain, using three different approaches. In the first chapter, I estimate the impact of public LTC allowances on the mortality of the ...
Tripathy, Jagdish (Date of defense: 2016-11-22)
This dissertation includes three chapters on the macroeconomic effects of the financial system, particularly the credit market. In the first chapter, I show a causal link between household credit supply and economic ...
Ou, Shengliang (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomic policy and business cy-cles. In chapter 1, I estimate a time-varying structural VAR to study the effects of government spending shocks on a number of U.S. macroeconomic ...
Martín Vilató, Zoel (Date of defense: 2023-07-07)
Aquesta tesi conté tres assaigs sobre macroeconomia i anàlisi textual. En el primer capítol, estudio l’impacte de la polarització política sobre les polítiques mediambientals utilitzant propostes de llei de les ...
Goñi i Tràfach, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-04-27)
This thesis examines the interactions between marital patterns, inequality, and fertility. In the first chapter I analyze the impact of search frictions on marital assortative matching. I exploit a temporary interruption ...
Pescatori, Andrea (Date of defense: 2006-12-18)
The thesis is divided into three chapters.<br/><br/>1) I study how monetary policy should be optimally designed when households show financial wealth heterogeneity.<br/>Main results: thanks to its ability to affect interest ...
Pappa, Evi (Date of defense: 2001-11-22)
The thesis consists of three chapters: Chapter 2 investigates, in the context of a two-country model with monopolistic competition and price stickiness, the implications for macroeconomic stability and the welfare ...
Evans, Christopher Michael (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
This thesis consists of three chapters on monetary economics. In the first chapter, I explore if a benchmark Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model fits the heterogeneous response of monetary policy shocks observed ...