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Figueiredo, Ana (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Soto, Paul Eduardo (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Sureda Gomila, Antoni (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Rodríguez Tous, Francesc (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Rojas Zea, Youel (Data de defensa: 2022-05-13)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for the credit market ...
Puerta, Juan Manuel (Data de defensa: 2011-06-03)
This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and fertility. I use a combination ...
Pirla Lopez, Sergio (Data de defensa: 2022-05-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct ...
Fouka, Vasiliki (Data de defensa: 2015-06-20)
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ects the assimilation ...
Gerardino Gutiérrez, María Paula (Data de defensa: 2014-12-17)
This thesis investigates various aspects of economic development. In the first chapter, I study the impact of violence on human capital investments, focusing mainly on the relationship between male-biased violence and ...
Brassiolo, Pablo A. (Data de defensa: 2012-05-03)
This thesis sheds light on several aspects of the economics of marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining. The first chapter focuses on the relationship between divorce law and family wellbeing, and shows that lowering ...
Wang, Xinghua (Data de defensa: 2020-06-29)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible to make lab games much ...
Rubí Barceló, Antoni (Data de defensa: 2008-02-08)
This thesis aims to contribute to a fundamental objective of Network Economics: to provide based incentives explanations of real social network topologies. By using game theoretical tools, the three papers of this thesis ...
Nakov, Anton (Data de defensa: 2007-11-19)
The thesis studies three distinct issues in monetary economics using a common dynamic general equilibrium approach under the assumptions of rational expectations and nominal price rigidity.<br/> The first chapter deals ...
Garda, Paula (Data de defensa: 2013-06-27)
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. The first chapter focuses on the impact of dual labor markets on human capital investment. Using a large dataset of the Spanish Social Security the ...
Cajner, Tomaz (Data de defensa: 2012-07-03)
This thesis investigates several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. First chapter finds that in the US more educated individuals experience lower and less volatile unemployment due to a lower hazard rate of losing ...
Ge, Erqi (Data de defensa: 2020-09-22)
This thesis consists of three chapters about political economy in China. The first chapter focuses on the interregional trade. Taking advantages of direct allocations of regional leaders by central government in China, ...
Djourelova, Milena (Data de defensa: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ban on the politically ...
Platikanova, Petya (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Ptashkina, Maria (Data de defensa: 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 ...
Fadinger, Harald (Data de defensa: 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 ...