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Pina, Gonçalo (Data de defensa: 2013-01-21)
This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing economies. I present ...
Hafner, Flavio (Data de defensa: 2020-11-27)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility can improve the labor ...
Jagadits, András (Data de defensa: 2022-09-30)
This thesis studies questions at the intersection of labor economics and the literature of structural change. The first chapter empirically assesses the impact of emigration on structural change. Exploiting plausibly ...
Herz, Benedikt (Data de defensa: 2015-02-23)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay unemployed and wait ...
Ghifrani, Erfan (Data de defensa: 2022-10-26)
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ ...
Xavier, Inés (Data de defensa: 2021-07-01)
This thesis investigates how asset markets affect macroeconomic outcomes and inequality. In the first chapter, I study the contribution of return heterogeneity for wealth inequality. First, I document that wealthier U.S. ...
Einarsson, Bjarni F. (Data de defensa: 2023-10-02)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 presents a method for online evaluation of the optimality of the current stance of monetary policy given the most up to date data available. ...
Wang, Yiru (Data de defensa: 2020-06-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 proposes a method to analyze the relationship between models’ in-sample fit and their out-of-sample density forecasting performance. To this ...
Gánics, Gergely Ákos (Data de defensa: 2017-09-26)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 provides a novel estimator of combination weights which delivers well-calibrated density forecasts. In an empirical example of forecasting ...
Hoesch, Lukas (Data de defensa: 2021-09-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 develops a hypothesis test to evaluate economic models and their forecasts robust to instabilities. The test is particularly powerful in ...
Brückner, Markus (Data de defensa: 2010-11-15)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines empirically the relationship<br/>between foreign aid and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries. Instrumental<br/>variables techniques are used ...
Morazzoni, Marta (Data de defensa: 2023-06-02)
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows that student loans ...
Mantovani, Cristiano (Data de defensa: 2023-06-09)
This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution ...
Queirós, Francisco (Data de defensa: 2018-06-26)
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first two chapters are on the topic of asset bubbles. In the first chapter, I study the interactions between rational asset bubbles and product market competition. ...
Chiavari, Andrea (Data de defensa: 2022-07-01)
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel quantitative firm dynamics ...
Hoffmann, Peter (Data de defensa: 2011-07-13)
This thesis covers three topics in Market Microstructure. Chapter 1 demonstrates that market access frictions may play a significant role in the competition between trading platforms. Analyzing a recent dataset of the ...
Ohanyan, Narek (Data de defensa: 2023-06-07)
This thesis studies the optimal conduct of monetary policy in the presence of nominal and informational frictions. The first chapter studies the optimal policy in a small open economy model with external asset holdings. ...
Gudmundsson, Gudmundur Stefan (Data de defensa: 2018-07-11)
This thesis consists of two chapters on time series modelling. The first chapter introduces a class of vector autoregressive (VAR) models with a community structure for large panels of time series. In the model, the series ...
Zhou, Feng (Data de defensa: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation consists of three papers examining the implications of non-market strategies in corporations and mutual funds. The first chapter quantifies the importance of political connections to congressional ...
Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel (Data de defensa: 2015-06-22)
New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. This dissertation ...