Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This thesis explores the interactions between the political and corporate environment. In the first chapter, I examine the high concentration of headquarters in capital cities and the incentives for firms to locate in close ...
This dissertation consists of three chapters centred on safe assets, shedding light on different aspects of the growing literature on the subject. Chapter 1 introduces the set of assets that falls under the safe category, ...
This thesis is concerned with the structural estimation of macroeconomic models via Bayesian methods and the economic implications derived from its empirical output. The first chapter provides a general method for estimating ...
The three chapters of this thesis investigate different aspects of the economics of health and wellbeing. The first chapter tests the rationality of life satisfaction forecasts. Contrary to the rational expectations ...
This dissertation consists of three essays that empirically test economic theories on the causal effect of information on individuals and firms. The first chapter studies the consequences of lower consumer search costs ...
This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the period 1990-2010. I ...
Esta tesis se compone de dos partes separadas y sin relación entre ellas. El primer capítulo, coautorado con el Profesor Greg Barron, es un experimento en toma de decisiones individuales. Este capítulo se construye a partir ...
This doctoral thesis develops new methods for time series analysis and applies these to prominent empirical problems in macroeconomics. It contains three chapters. Chapter one proposes a new non-parametric generalized method ...
Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. The first chapter ...
