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This thesis investigates the role of human capital in understanding recent developments in the U.S. labor market. Chapter 1 provides novel empirical evidence suggesting that an increasing importance of on-the-job human ...
In this Thesis, we first deploy Gittins index theory to establish the indexability of inter-alia general families of restless bandits that arise in problems of stochastic scheduling with switching penalties and machine ...
This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2) focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility model of Individual Intertemporal Choice: ...
This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation to time), how decisions are influenced by subtle behavioral interventions called nudges, and under which circumstances the ...
This thesis explores the linkages among resource allocation, industry dynamics, and asset price bubbles in China. In the first chapter, I break the source of misallocation into four groups: uncertainty, ownership difference, ...
This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options in paid parental ...
This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are connected through ...
Esta tesis extiende el modelo estándar Neo Keynesiano con el propósito de contestar dos preguntas: ¿cómo debe ser diseñada la política monetaria en uniones monetarias heterogéneas? y ¿cuál es el efecto de presiones ...
In this thesis I evaluate the departures of three common assumptions in macroeconomic modeling and estimation, namely the Rational Expectations (RE) hypothesis, the representative agent assumption and the use of first-order ...
La presente tesis estudia la correlación negativa entre inflación y precios reales de las acciones. En primer lugar, muestro evidencia de que la inflación impone costos reales en la economía, en particular al disminuir los ...
This thesis investigates the relation between information and competition in two particular settings. In the first chapter, I ask which screening and lending choices banks make if their loan offers can be observed by ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in macroeconomics and information frictions. In the first chapter, I relax the complete information assumption in the standard New Keynesian framework to ...
This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent decades. In the first chapter, I study the impact of infrastructure, i.e, highway construction, on China’s participation in ...
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of international capital flows and how they affect financial markets and economic activity, with a focus on capital flows from benchmarked investors. In the first chapter, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
