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    Essays on monetary policy and learning 

    Molnár, Krisztina (Date of defense: 2006-06-20)

    Mi tesis se basa en los resultados de least squares learning, que modela agentes individuales como econometricos: los agentes funcionan como regresiones, usan datos disponibles para formar sus expectativas. En el primer ...

    Essays on Monetary Policy, Wage Bargaining and Fiscal Policy 

    Gnocchi, Stefano (Date of defense: 2008-02-05)

    Los modelos Neo-Keynesianos se han impuesto en el análisis de las políticas monetaria y fiscal óptimas. Esta literatura no considera la interacción estratégica entre los agentes económicos y las autoridades de la política ...

    Essays on monetary, fiscal and trade policy in open economies 

    Forlati, Chiara (Date of defense: 2009-10-02)

    En esta tesis estudio varias cuestiones de política monetaria y fiscal usando modelos de equilibrio generales completamente micro-fundados. El primer capítulo de esta tesis trata la cuestión de cómo la políticas monetarias ...

    Essays on Money, Credit and Fiscal Policy 

    Sessa, Luca (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)

    This thesis tackles three different issues of relevance for economic policy, with an explicit reference to the Euro area. Does the inclusion of monetary targeting in a monetary policy strategy improve macroeconomic stability? ...

    Essays on mutual funds and their impact on financial stability 

    De Jesus, Miguel Karlo (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)

    This dissertation consists of two chapters that explore some of the financial stability issues that concern mutual funds. The first chapter demonstrates that the massive sale by US funds of Mexican equity in 2008 triggered ...

    Essays on new Keynesian Macroeconomics 

    Dorich Doig, José Antonio (Date of defense: 2008-07-03)

    El modelo Neo Keynesiano estándar ha sido una de las herramientas más influyentes en debates sobre dinámica macroeconómica, política monetaria y bienestar. Además, este modelo constituye una pieza fundamental en la elaboración ...

    Essays on Non-Price Competition and Macroeconomics 

    Turino, Francesco (Date of defense: 2009-11-30)

    My dissertation is a collection of three essays that study various aspects of non-price competition among firms using fully microfounded general equilibrium models. The first two chapters, both coauthored with Benedetto ...

    Essays on open economic, inflation and labour markets 

    Campolmi, Alessia (Date of defense: 2008-02-06)

    En los últimos años se ha desarollado mucho la literatura que utiliza modelos estocásticos de equilibrio económico general en economía abierta. En esta clase de modelos el primer capítulo estudia si el banco central tiene ...

    Essays on political and public economics 

    Nupia Martínez, Oscar (Date of defense: 2007-06-28)

    Esta tesis trata tres temas diferentes: (1) El efecto de la distribución del ingreso sobre los niveles de conflicto; (2) el efecto de la descentralización sobre la corrupción; (3) el efecto del número de partidos sobre las ...

    Essays on political economy of development 

    Geng, Yining (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)

    This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in development economics. In the first chapter, I study the impact of family planning policies on gender-specific outcomes. I find positive impacts of the FPP on improv-ing ...

    Essays on residential trajectories and social ties in the stage of early adulthood 

    Vidal Torre, Sergi (Date of defense: 2009-11-13)

    Aquesta tesi doctoral es composa de tres linies de recerca en que s'analitza de forma dinàmica l'associació entre mobilitat residencial / migracions i les relacions social que es troben en el lloc de residència. Les tres ...

    Essays on skills formation 

    Duchini, Emma (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)

    This thesis examines the role of public policies and institutions in fostering human capital formation and utilization. In the first chapter, I analyze the impact of college remedial courses on students’ performance and ...

    Essays on Sovereign Debt Crises and Macroeconomic Volatility 

    Brutti, Filippo (Date of defense: 2010-02-11)

    Income growth is much more volatile in developing countries than in developed ones. One argument is that weak legal and political institutions exacerbate macroeconomic shocks precipitating the economy into widespread crises. ...

    Essays on sovereign debt markets 

    Lanau Grau, Sergi (Date of defense: 2008-10-22)

    Aquesta tesis anal.litza les Clausules d'Acció Col.lectiva i les Clàusules de Precedència quan: 1) el repagament és endogen i depèn d'un esforç de lobbying dels creditors. 2) el litigi és purament redistributiu. Hi ha una ...

    Essays on statistical inference in non-regular semiparametric models 

    Lee, Adam (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)

    This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in semiparametric models which ...

    Essays on sticky prices, aggregate investment and monetary policy. 

    Weinke, Lutz (Date of defense: 2005-03-31)

    La tesis estudia la relación entre las inversiones y la inflación. El primer capitulo muestra que esta relación es más simple (en el contexto de un modelo del tipo neo-keynesiano) de lo que la literatura anterior ha ...

    Essays on the allocation of talent 

    Figueiredo, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)

    This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education returns has an ...

    Essays on the bank lending channel 

    Soto, Paul Eduardo (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)

    This thesis contributes to the understanding of how banks shift their supply of credit when confronted with uncertainty, regulatory supervision and macroprudential policies. The first chapter proposes a new index to detect ...

    Essays on the behavior and regulation of insiders 

    Sureda Gomila, Antoni (Date of defense: 2010-10-28)

    This thesis consists of three essays on the behavior of corporate insiders and the optimal regulation of insider trading. The first of these three essays examines the welfare effects of insider trading and its attributes ...

    Essays on the consequences of banking shocks 

    Rodríguez Tous, Francesc (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)

    This thesis revolves around banking behavior and its implications for financial stability. The first chapter examines how banks buy and sell securities during the crisis, and we find that some banks -the ones specialized ...